Trapped by What Remembers Us

Good morning! it’s Monday, November 3rd, and I’m starting the week with that rare sense of balance.

My runs are feeling smooth, strength training’s on schedule, and for once my mind and body seem to be in sync.

Over the weekend, my son Liam got a renewed sense of purpose for his WildLiam YouTube channel, full of memes, shorts, and experiments in making people laugh.

Please check it out and if you find something funny, let him know! It’s pure creative momentum.

That’s what I’ve been thinking about lately, and the focus of this Monday Thought, how momentum builds context.

Because whether it’s running, posting, or building in AI, once you’ve got enough context stored up somewhere, it gets hard to start fresh.

With 📝, we move forward 👇

⚡ Quick Hits

• Microsoft reported its capital expenditures jumped to $34.9 billion in Q1 2025 (up from $24.2 billion) as it accelerates AI infrastructure to match demand.
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• ChatGPT Atlas by OpenAI launched, a browser built on chat + memory + web browsing, signalling the rise of agentic browsing and how context-stickiness becomes a competitive moat.
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• Perplexity AI unveiled Perplexity Patents, a natural-language AI patent-search agent that opens up IP research beyond specialists, reinforcing how context‐rich agents are moving into deep-domain workflows.
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• IBM announced “content-aware” enhancements for its Storage Scale platform to help AI tooling more efficiently extract semantic meaning from unstructured content, context management becoming infrastructure.
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🛠 Tool

Mem0

If the sunk context fallacy is about getting trapped in the memories our tools hold for us, Mem0 is the first real attempt to give those memories back.

Built as an open-source memory layer for AI agents, mem0 stores, retrieves, and transfers context across sessions and platforms.

It’s a connective tissue that lets models recall what they’ve already learned from you, wherever you work.

Think of it as the USB drive for your digital memory, portable, private, and under your control.

In a world where attention is fleeting but context is gold, mem0 hints at a future where you can move fast without starting from zero.

I’m going to give it a try this week, and I will report back next week. Would love to know your thoughts as well, lets explore together and share notes.

→ Mem0.ai

🪨 The Pebble

If context is the new currency, maybe the real question isn’t how much, but who gets to keep the memory.

What would change if your tools forgot as gracefully as they learned?

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🥳 A very Happy Birthday this week to Adri and Benja.

Have a great week everyone!