Mark Hendrickson

My old agentic stack was one agent per session with me in the loop for every task.

Three viral posts agree that durable state is what makes agent loops work, then hand the job to a markdown file.

Agent-led evaluation tells a user whether Neotoma fits.

The first problem with running multiple agents is that they forget.

Specialists at the ends produce deep artifacts in their own vocabularies; the old org used the execution middle to translate in real time.

Humans at the ends, AI in the middle is a clean diagram.

Startup hiring advice fights over speed: hire slow versus hire ahead of the curve.

Software teams used to spend most of their time in execution—the middle between foundation and review.

Async specialists can each be right inside their own domain and still ship something incoherent across domains.

On the PM role, AI, and the strange decision to define your job around the skill that just got commoditized.

When many agents write to one memory, you need proof on every row: who signed, what they were allowed to do, and no shared bearer secrets.

Fourteen years ago I wrote a postmortem for Plancast.

OpenClaw stores memory in markdown files.

Three independent AI agent platforms worth billions converged on plain text files for memory.

Most teams bolt agent memory onto whatever database they already have.

Sarah Wooders argues memory is the harness.

BEAM tests retrieval at 10 million tokens.

The metrics that drive adoption in AI memory are almost all retrieval metrics.

Eighteen human product evaluators ran the same evaluation prompt through their AI tools.

I shipped eleven Neotoma releases in the first five weeks after the developer release.

About eighteen of twenty-six people I reached ran the same evaluation prompt through their AI tools.

The debate over AI maps onto a question the Enlightenment never resolved.

I accidentally overwrote my production Neotoma database and dropped from 6,174 observations to 84.

Narrative FOMO followed me from crypto to AI.

The people who embrace AI encounter its problems more directly than anyone.

I overhauled the Neotoma site.

The structural pressures that underpin my work, and what would invalidate them as the AI industry evolves.

Creation, whether a startup or a blog post, is a continuous habit of revealing your inner world and tuning into what comes back.

I joined Blockstack in 2018 for the off-chain developer tools.

Claude and ChatGPT now offer memory for free, but what they store are profile snippets, not the details of what you actually worked on.

I built an agentic stack to dogfood Neotoma and accelerate my work.

A new open-source memory agent from Google ditches vector databases for LLM consolidation, trading determinism for active pattern discovery.

Structured agent memory you can inspect, replay, and trust.

Retrieval fits coding and is cheap; it breaks on completeness, consistency, and provenance.

Command centers for agents need a single, durable state layer for tasks and visibility.

The humanness isn't in typing every word.

The future of crypto wallets is agentic.

Retrieval for agent memory should be driven by structure, not similarity.

You don't protect it through secrecy or patents.

Your AI finds things.

Your own floor in the heart of Barcelona.

OpenClaw runs on your machine, clears your inbox, and builds skills.

Agent memory is forgetful.

Building sovereign systems at the intersection of crypto and AI

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