Essays, concepts, and notes by Igor Schwarzmann on culture, technology, and AI.https://igorschwarzmann.com/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/what-kind-of-complexity-should-we-afford-ourselves/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/what-kind-of-complexity-should-we-afford-ourselves/Cowan's More Work for Mother, turned on AI: appliances didn't save labor, they let us choose new complexity. Treat AI as a dishwasher, not a god.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTessayhttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/agency-deficit/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/agency-deficit/Organizations rarely suffer an information deficit. They lack the agency and time to act on what they already know. Applied right, that is where AI adds value.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTconcepthttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/sovereignty-is-the-ground-that-stays-under-you/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/sovereignty-is-the-ground-that-stays-under-you/Europe keeps demanding AI sovereignty without naming a game it can win. Stop chasing a frontier champion. Compete for the open, local floor instead.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTessayhttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/lab-renaissance/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/lab-renaissance/The return of the small, day-to-day-decoupled team — Lab or Center of Excellence — as the organizational-design answer to AI adoption.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTconcepthttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/contact-lenses-for-a-headband/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/contact-lenses-for-a-headband/Agents collapsed the cost of joining data: a half-broken EEG headband experiment, and why noisy sensors now make every archive worth more.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnotehttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/nostalgia-is-not-the-word/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/nostalgia-is-not-the-word/Gen Z's appetite for retro is not nostalgia. It is hauntology: longing for a future that was promised and never arrived. The nostalgia is the brands'.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTessayhttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/memory-as-medium/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/memory-as-medium/The thesis that memory — not content, not messages, not notes — becomes the central primitive for publishing, professional identity, and collaboration in AI-mediated knowledge workSat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTconcepthttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/agentic-memory/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/agentic-memory/How AI agents persist, structure, and manage memory — three philosophical camps, six analytical axes, and twenty-one systems mapped.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTconcepthttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/coordination-agent/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/coordination-agent/What happens when you give a multi-party project an AI team member with persistent memory across every tool and conversation.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTconcepthttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/atmosphere/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/atmosphere/A visualization of reasoning terrain — close to a thousand sessions rendered as a living nebula of colored gas.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTnotehttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/shev/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/shev/A personal observer agent that watches how I think across conversations — named after Shevek from Le Guin's The Dispossessed.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTnotehttps://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/brain-dead-ai-operated-knowledge-vault/https://igorschwarzmann.com/notes/brain-dead-ai-operated-knowledge-vault/Architecture, data model, and decisions behind an Obsidian vault where AI agents do most of the writing.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTessay