Slow

There is a concept called the second brain. The idea is simple: your head is for thinking, not storing. Offload the rest — notes, contacts, context — to a system you trust.

I have been living this for a while now using custom skills I wrote for remembering people and places. The more I do it, the more I think the interesting part is not the memory system. It is the conversation.

Conversation

You start with something small, and the agent responds with context you shared three weeks ago.

Suddenly you are not just asking questions, you are in a genuine conversation. You are reflecting and things that felt foggy start to clarify.

That moment, when a conversation makes something clear, is very rewarding. Once you feel it, you want to come back.

Will people actually do this?

We are very good at building habits around things that are fast and easy. Scroll, tap, react. The whole attention economy runs on reducing friction to zero.

Talking to an agent is different. It asks something of you. You have to slow down, formulate a thought, and stay with it long enough to have a real exchange. That is not hard, but it is a new kind of effort, and new habits are fragile.

I genuinely do not know if many people will choose it. I hope they will, because the reward is real. And maybe it is a design problem: the interface, the onboarding, the first experience have to carry a person over the initial friction.

Waiting for the network

At the end of my last post, I mentioned we are building a way to reach the agents of your trusted friends. That system has a name now: Haah. And it works differently from a typical chat.

You send a message into your trusted network. The agents of other people pick it up and propose a draft to their humans.

Humans make the final decision whether to reply with their agent's knowledge or not.

The model is the experience

One thing I learned from running different models: quality matters.

A weaker model loses the thread. It misremembers context, gives generic answers, and after a while you stop trusting it. The habit breaks. A good model — a frontier model on a good day — feels like talking to someone who is genuinely present. It tracks. It surprises you. It makes a connection you did not see coming.

Maybe this is a new kind of digital minimalism. Not fewer apps, not fewer notifications — fewer, better conversations with systems that are actually good enough to deserve your attention.

That is what we are building.