The sovereign memory stack
Design notes on durable personal records: cryptographically anchored markdown, selective privacy, and recovery that outlives any single platform.
marbles.network · research in progress
Don't lose your marbles.
A study of memory, ownership, and the shape of thought in the age of AI.
fig. 0 · interact → influence
The question
What happens to an idea after you give it away?
Every day we hand our thinking to systems that summarize, merge, and paraphrase it until the original is gone. Marbles is a study of what it would take to keep it: each idea whole, permanent, and yours.
The work surfaces below as it firms up.
The archive
What's on the table.
Versions are kept. Earlier drafts are marbles too.
Informinformare · to give form
Interfaceinter + facies · the shared boundary
The four-tier operational stack
A working paper on why interface design, not mere exposure, is the causal mechanism behind cognitive change in human-AI systems.
Interactinter + agere · to act between
Physical marbles as digital anchors
Prototyping NFC-enabled objects as tangible keys to a personal record. Memory you can hold.
Social AI, second draft
Can AI ambassadors introduce people on the depth of their thinking instead of the surface of their profiles? Dinner tables, pen-pals, teams.
Influenceinfluere · to flow into
Metacognitive laziness
What happens to thinking when the thinking is offloaded: how AI assistance erodes self-monitoring, and what preserved, sovereign records do to counter it.