The problem is not the ideas, it is the residue A brainstorm produces three things at once: half-formed ideas, a trail of pages you looked at, and — if you are lucky — a decision. The ideas end up in a chat window, the pages end up as twenty-six tabs, and the decision ends up […]
An attachment and a library are not the same tool Attaching a document to a conversation solves exactly one question, in exactly one chat, and then the document is gone again. That is fine for a one-off. It is useless for the thing people actually want, which is: this body of material is the ground […]
Why “it remembers you” is usually a warning sign Most memory features work like this: the assistant quietly forms an opinion about you, and from then on that opinion shapes every answer you get. You cannot see it, you cannot check it, and when it is subtly wrong the assistant becomes subtly and permanently wrong […]