Journal

Still figuring things out.

Notes from the desk, and from the day job. Mostly questions.

1. A user returned. Did growth happen?

   Beyond bringing people back: how much of a conversion did advertising actually create?

   Adapted from the ChinaJoy 2025 field record ↗
2. Connecting a tool is a product decision.

   More tools add capability. Understanding that capability, and deciding who can use it, are design problems too.

   Adapted from the arslan-starter-pack example ↗
3. Remembering is only half the job.

   Long-term memory needs a way to recover when information expires or an interpretation was wrong from the start.

   Adapted from Arslan’s public design documentation ↗
4. What building Arslan changed about how I think.

   Building Arslan changed how I think about context, reliability and the direction I give AI.

   Adapted from a reflection first published on LinkedIn ↗