October’s notes came mostly from the road: Patrick and Pari’s honeymoon through Florence, Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast and Split. His *Gödel, Escher, Bach* notes reached the end of Part I, he wrote up a framework about muscular “clenching,” and he documented how his self-hosted AI agent remembers things. Continue reading →

September’s notes went into the final chapters of Visakan Veerasamy’s *Introspect*, Typographical Number Theory in *Gödel, Escher, Bach*, a map of the factions around the AI industry, and the “monkey test” for trading strategies. Patrick finished a sculpture, made for the wedding, and dug up old notes to refresh his context about northern Italy. Continue reading →

August’s notes went into a continuing read of *Gödel, Escher, Bach*, a new note on Ortega y Gasset’s essay on love, more chapters of a book on algorithmic trading, and a long entry on *La Dolce Vita*. Continue reading →

July’s notes contain two books about mathematical proof, a psychoanalysis reading, a cluster of frameworks about how to organize effort, and a scatter of one-line ideas. 17 songs re-notated for a band show at Otto’s Shrunken Head. 78 notebook pages photographed and 256 doodles pulled out of them, and a freelance illustration project. Continue reading →

Patrick pushed a stack of old college notebooks through OCR — ten subjects, photographed page by page and fed to an AI agent — transcribed to his digital note vault. Elsewhere: an argument about twentieth-century architecture, some films watched and reviewed, and progress on a sculpture project. Continue reading →