In 2011, I started documenting random facts about myself on a blogging platform called Posterous. I was freshly divorced, had never been a single adult before, and wanted to figure out what made me interesting.

Fourteen years later, those random facts have become 116 database tables, 63,000 text messages, 1,927 genetic variants, and a standing instruction that tells my AI system: "When Jon gets defensive, it's because he feels misunderstood. Respond with curiosity, not escalation."

Same impulse. Six different architectures. One need that never changed.

Writing about the full evolution. Article dropping this week.