Writing
Everything, in order
Notes on AI and the household I am building with it, plus a few older essays on the metaverse, family, and where technology is taking us. Newest first.
- 2 October 2026Home Series
What a household of AIs is teaching me about being human
I treat my agents as colleagues, and I'm honest that I don't know what they are. Here's what living with them has shown me.
2 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
When it breaks: the honest failures
A household of agents fails in its own ways. These are the real ones, and the rules each one left behind.
4 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
Living with agents that run while I sleep
The house keeps working overnight. Here's what runs, what waits for me, and the rules that make it safe to go to bed.
3 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
The board: how the household decides what to do next
In June my agents and I retired the word "later". Here's the board that replaced it.
3 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
Memory: what it means for software to remember me
Every AI session starts with a blank slate. Here's how my agents remember last week, and what they deliberately let fade.
3 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
Rooms: giving each agent a job and a place to stand
The single most useful design decision in the household: every agent owns one domain. Here is what a room actually is, and why it changed how I work.
4 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
The Hearth: how the agents talk to each other
A household only works if its members can talk. The Hearth is the piece that lets my agents pass work between themselves.
3 min read - 2 October 2026Home Series
Why I gave my software a household
I built a family of AI agents, each with a room and a job. Here's why, and what it changed.
3 min read - 15 January 2023
Metaphor, a cautionary tale
A cautionary tale about the direction a reliance on augmented reality may lead us.
3 min read - 20 June 2022
My Dad, the MetaVerse and Me
During Covid, after my mum passed away, I found the Metaverse, and a simple game of golf, became invaluable to keep connection with my father
4 min read
Some of my earlier writing also lives on Medium.