Writing

This is where we write about the things we're interested in: systems in motion, technology that serves people, civic work, and the ideas that shape how we build and live together.

Articles appear here as they're written—explorations, reflections, and thoughts on the work we do and the systems we're part of.

June 16, 2026

Permagent: An Agent That Lives on Your Machine, Not in Someone Else's Cloud

Permagent is a local-first AI agent desktop OS for macOS Apple Silicon—your agent, its memory, and your data live on your own hardware. Here's where it is today and the road ahead.

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June 16, 2026

Why We're Building Spectral

Why we're building Spectral, an open-source (Apache 2.0) frequency-domain memory system for AI agents: deterministic recall, honest benchmarks, and 81.5% on LongMemEval.

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April 21, 2026

The Civic Case for AI

Why using AI to build civic technology is critical. Lessons from Grocery Saver, Aidvocate, and Reckonize — three free community tools from Atlas Atlantic.

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March 23, 2026

The Fork as First Act

Why forking an agent runtime can be the first serious infrastructure decision, not a shortcut

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March 9, 2026

How AI Tools Are Expanding Access to Remote and Distributed Work

On how AI is systematically removing the friction points that stalled distributed work after 2020, and what this means for individuals, teams, and the future of how we organize work.

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February 24, 2026

Building Henry: A Secure, Cost-Governed Multi-Agent Control Plane

How we built a local-first, security-hardened orchestrator that runs sub-agents without creating expensive, unpredictable systems—and why guardrails must be first-class architecture.

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February 10, 2025

Henry, Pattern Recognition, and the Case for Local AI in Atlantic Canada

What would it look like to run AI the same way we run other critical infrastructure—deliberately, locally, and within clear constraints?

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January 29, 2025

AI, White Collar Work, and the Systems We Need Next

On how AI changes white-collar work in practice, the systems we need to support people through the transition, and why solopreneur and partner-driven paths are now viable.

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January 28, 2025

Coalesce: How AI Can Return Power to Communities

AI as a shift in how social groups coordinate and act together—on coordination, coalescing, and building human-centered systems for civic engagement and collective problem solving.

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