Igor Schwarzmann — Writing

A talk at MOD. in Adelaide about how AI might change everyday expectations, what becomes possible to build, and who takes on the work of keeping it useful.

An advisory mandate delivered through a private GitHub repository: what it changed about shared material, about the sessions, and what it foreshadows for services work.

An AI harness rests on protocols somebody already settled.

Massimo Osti's photocopier method as the frame for AI democratizing answers while doing nothing for questions; ends open on the complexity-affordance question.

The disproportionate time, space, and attention cost of the self-articulation AI-augmented work demands, and the premium it creates for those who can pay it

Cowan's More Work for Mother, turned on AI: appliances didn't save labor, they let us choose new complexity.

Organizations rarely suffer an information deficit.

Europe keeps demanding AI sovereignty without naming a game it can win.

The return of the small, day-to-day-decoupled team — Lab or Center of Excellence — as the organizational-design answer to AI adoption.

Agents collapsed the cost of joining data: a half-broken EEG headband experiment, and why noisy sensors now make every archive worth more.

Gen Z's appetite for retro is not nostalgia.

The thesis that memory — not content, not messages, not notes — becomes the central primitive for publishing, professional identity, and collaboration in AI-mediated knowledge work

How AI agents persist, structure, and manage memory — three philosophical camps, six analytical axes, and twenty-one systems mapped.

What happens when you give a multi-party project an AI team member with persistent memory across every tool and conversation.

A personal observer agent that watches how I think across conversations — named after Shevek from Le Guin's The Dispossessed.

A visualization of reasoning terrain — close to a thousand sessions rendered as a living nebula of colored gas.

Architecture, data model, and decisions behind an Obsidian vault where AI agents do most of the writing.