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
Vault newsletter
Vault Newsletter content is collected from Patrick’s digital notes activity over the course of the month – drafted by an AI agent and edited by Patrick.
Automated newsletters based on my notes
I’ve started publishing monthly newsletters, and the process is mostly automated. This was a freebie, and it’s a way for me to practice “building/thinking in public.” Continue reading
Vault Newsletter, August 2026: Recursion, Ortega on Love, and La Dolce Vita
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
Vault Newsletter, July 2026: Proof, Desire, and Doing the 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
Vault Newsletter, June 2026: Old Notebooks, Lost Ornament, and Four Films
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
