The Problem Nobody Is Solving

At some point in the last few years, I noticed something strange.

I would read something that changed how I thought about a problem. Work through it carefully. Reach a conclusion. Move on.

Then, months later, I would catch myself believing the exact opposite — not because I had reconsidered, but because I had simply forgotten that I had already decided.

I had changed my mind. And then forgotten I had changed it.

This kept happening. And the more I paid attention, the more I realized it wasn’t just me.

We are absorbing more information than any previous generation. More ideas, more perspectives, more contradictions. Faster than we can integrate them.

The tools we use to manage all of this — notes, second brains, knowledge bases — are designed to help us remember what we know.

None of them are designed to help us remember how we came to know it. Or what we believed before. Or where our current beliefs silently contradict something we concluded six months ago.

I spent a long time looking for a system that solved this problem.

I didn’t find one.

So I started building it.

This newsletter is where I’m doing that work in public.

Not a finished product. Not a polished theory. A live investigation into a problem I think is real, underexplored, and increasingly urgent.

Next issue: the architecture. What I built, why, and what it does that nothing else does.

If this problem sounds familiar — you’re in the right place.

— G. De Martino

The paper behind this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20369124