Well,
here goes.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about that history more than usual. Relationships I thought were settled—our allies, our trading partners, our place in the world—feel less certain. I never expected to be asking some of these questions about Canada’s future. Here we are.

I want to write about what makes this country more capable: the businesses we build, the skills people can carry across it, the institutions we rely on, and the choices we make with public money. That includes Edmonton. I think our city is in a tough spot, and I care enough to ask difficult questions.

You’ll hear about the economic system and Bitcoin, too. These are subjects I want to explore and debate, alongside the practical work I’m doing. I’m interested in a good conversation, including with people who see things differently.

Think of it as a personal Wikipedia: a growing, connected library of the people, projects, decisions, documents and stories that make up my life.

A note becomes part of a project’s history. A decision keeps its date and the reasons behind it. A family story connects to the people and photographs that give it meaning. The original sources stay available, and I can correct what the library gets wrong.

As that context improves, the agents should become more useful: better informed about what I mean, what I’ve already tried and what matters to me. More context doesn’t automatically make an answer true. I want to see where an answer came from, what is uncertain and what needs my judgment.

How the Second Brain grows.

I don’t want this to depend on me remembering to file everything. With access I explicitly permit, I want Kay to draw context from personal email and calendars, productivity tools, corporate Microsoft 365, Granola meeting notes, proposals and documents. Public reading and social listening would add another layer. The aim is to bring the useful record of my day into one connected library.

Collecting is only the beginning. Kay should help decide what is relevant, what deserves attention and how it connects to what is already there. Entries should keep their source and date, distinguish a decision from a suggestion, and flag conflicting or uncertain information. Work and personal material need their own permissions. Recording a meeting or using company information also needs the appropriate permission.

That’s the Wikipedia idea: context that keeps growing, organized so it can be found, connected and used—almost like a personal data warehouse. My bet is that giving agents useful context earlier will help us perform better. But volume alone isn’t the advantage. The advantage is context we can trust, correct and put to work.

This is the ingestion model I’m building toward. These connections are not all live, and this public page cannot access my email, meetings or private library.

The ambition is a high degree of autonomy within clear boundaries. Kay coordinates specialist agents: research, administration, writing, bookkeeping and the practical work of following through. Each gets the context and tools its job requires.

From my phone, I want to ask a question, capture a thought, inspect the source, correct a memory or review a proposed action. I want the system to keep moving useful work forward without making me supervise every small step.

That makes the design of permissions essential. Private spaces stay separate. Sharing is deliberate and revocable. Encryption, dependable backups, an activity record and human review for consequential actions are requirements I’m building toward. My private vault is not a public website feature.

These are design requirements I’m building toward, not security claims about this prototype.

The point is to be a better father, grandfather, husband, community member and business owner. There’s a Mac Studio in Barney’s Tavern that I’d like to make part of this. I enjoy the idea that a room full of history could also help me build a useful record of the life still ahead.

Eventually, my grandchildren might explore my stories through a clearly identified ‘Virtual Grandpa’. Someone I work with might ask a carefully limited public Kay about an idea I’ve chosen to share. Those are ambitions, with permissions to work out—not things this page can do today.