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Cache MissCognitionSeptember 1, 2026Retrieval fluency is the brain's L3 cache: why names stall, what a 60-second test can show, and what changes when AI answers first.The Stop RuleAgentsWorkAugust 14, 2026An agent running unattended needs a finish line it cannot move. What I learned building harnesses, and the loop that keeps mine honest.Commit To DiskCognitionAugust 11, 2026Long-term storage is the one cognitive function where the computer analogy misleads. Reading the file rewrites it, and the night shift is oversold.The Long ReachAgentsWorkJuly 29, 2026The tool layer my agents run on: MCP against CLI against language servers, the escalation ladder for web access, and the seven commands I wrote myself.Turn It OverCognitionJuly 28, 2026Visuospatial processing responds to training better than any other cognitive function, and almost nobody is ever scored on it. Both facts need care.The Second BrainAgentsWorkJuly 23, 2026An agent forgets everything when the session ends. This is the personal knowledge base I built so my agents remember what I know, session after session.The Fixed HandLongevityJuly 22, 2026Every health number I track expires and gets re-tested. My genome doesn’t. What reading my DNA once actually told me, and what it couldn’t.The Context GapAgentsWorkJuly 20, 2026When an agent gets something wrong, it is usually missing what I know, not capability. This is the operating model I built to close that gap.The Coffee CurveLongevityJuly 16, 2026Four coffees a day, all before 3 PM. What the evidence says about coffee and lifespan, sleep, and blood pressure, and the genetics everyone gets wrong.The Hydration DialLongevityJuly 16, 2026Running past 40°C in Las Vegas taught me hydration is a dial, not a slider. What the science actually says about water and salt in the heat, proven versus sold.Raw ComputeCognitionJuly 14, 2026Fluid reasoning is the raw compute you bring to a problem you have never seen. You cannot drill it bigger, but you can stop starving it.A Second OpinionLongevityJuly 9, 2026I scan every food and cosmetic before I buy it. Yuka takes ten seconds, answers to no brand, and quietly rewired my defaults.Clock SpeedCognitionJuly 8, 2026Processing speed is the clock every other function runs on. You cannot overclock it, but you can read it, and stop letting sleep and stress slow it down.The Policy PendulumEducationJuly 7, 2026In three years schools went from banning ChatGPT to legally requiring AI policies. The rules govern who can use it, not whether it teaches anything.Learning on CreditEducationJuly 2, 2026AI makes student work better and learning worse. The science is early, but the job market will eventually collect on the gap between output and real skill.Hold That ThoughtCognitionJuly 1, 2026Working memory is not a number to raise. It is a few slots that hold what you are thinking with, and the honest move is to stop overspending them.The Scan You Donate: Whole-Body MRILongevityJune 30, 2026A 30-year-old's full-body MRI, the new players selling it, and an honest look at what a baseline scan can and cannot tell you about longevity.Not One NumberCognitionJune 15, 2026Nobody has a single heart number. You track a panel of functions. Cognition works the same way, and “intelligence” is the wrong unit.Mind the BaselineCognitionLongevityJune 9, 2026I track sleep, HRV, VO2 max, and over a hundred biomarkers. For the one organ I most identify with, my brain, I have no baseline at all.PureLogics PulseMediaJune 8, 2026On PureLogics Pulse, I discussed with Amir Khan why compliance belongs in the architecture rather than the launch checklist — security-first design, data segregation, synthetic data, and keeping AI hallucinations in check across healthcare and education.Bring Your Own BrainAgentsJune 3, 2026Voltaire's newest surface is an MCP server. What it takes to expose an internal AI orchestrator to Claude Code without giving up PII control.Stretch to SleepLongevityJune 1, 2026Stretching won’t prevent injury or cure soreness. I still spend fifteen minutes on the floor every night. Here is what it actually buys me.Marker, Not a LeverLongevityMay 26, 2026A hand squeeze predicts death better than blood pressure. I track mine at 132 pounds. Why grip strength is a signal worth reading, not a number to chase.The Replay LoopAgentsMay 22, 2026Observability is the underrated layer in AI agent design. Replay turns production queries into local fixtures, and lets the agent help fix itself.Sleeping Like a ClockLongevityMay 19, 20261,210 nights of Whoop data and a strong opinion. Sleep is the highest-leverage longevity protocol, and it starts the moment you wake up.PII by Design: Securing AI Data AccessAgentsMay 14, 2026How I think about identity, prompts, and audit when an internal AI touches employee, student, and clinical data. Five layers, mechanically independent.Pressure ReadingLongevityMay 12, 2026My blood pressure has flirted with elevated since adolescence. Here is what I learned about measuring it correctly and the science behind the number.Skills, Not FeaturesAgentsMay 7, 2026How Voltaire ships AI workflows as declarative XML playbooks: tool surface, instruction sequence, audience, budget, and PII addenda all in one file.Training for DecadesLongevityMay 4, 2026I train every day, not for a season or a race. Here is what 12 months of cardio, strength, and rucking data say about training for longevity.Learns from ItselfAgentsApril 29, 2026How Voltaire builds its own knowledge base over time through semantic recall, reflection on past conversations, and slow promotion into a shared memory.My AI PharmacistLongevityApril 27, 2026I fed three years of biomarkers into a chat window and asked for a supplement stack. The output was sharper than what most clinicians would produce.A Knowledge Graph for the Rest of UsAgentsApril 22, 2026How my internal AI went from a SQLite knowledge graph crawling every Google Drive file to a managed search engine and a BigQuery vector table.Ten Minutes of RedLongevityApril 20, 2026Ten minutes under a red light panel every morning. What photobiomodulation actually does, what it probably doesn’t, and why I still plug it in.The SQL Agent: Schema-Aware BigQueryAgentsApril 15, 2026How Voltaire turns natural language into schema-aware SQL, filters PII before the model sees it, and repairs broken queries automatically.Eating Once a DayLongevityApril 13, 2026I eat one meal a day, spend $25, and my metabolic markers look better than most. Ten years of data on what happens when you stop snacking.The Reasoning LoopAgentsApril 8, 2026How Voltaire routes a Slack question through identity resolution, knowledge planning, and a reasoning loop with real tools to build grounded answers.Body of EvidenceLongevityApril 6, 2026Most people track weight and maybe cholesterol. I track over 100 biomarkers quarterly. Here is how I learned which ones matter and which are noise.One Brain to QueryAgentsMarch 30, 2026What happens when a company connects its data warehouse, documents, tickets, and code into a single AI agent that any employee can talk to in Slack.How I See Biological AgeLongevityMarch 29, 2026Your chronological age is a timestamp. Your biological age is a signal. How epigenetic clocks, aging pace, and organ data reshaped how I see getting older.Information TransitWorkMarch 23, 2026The AI productivity story focuses on individuals. The real bottleneck is how information moves between teams. Production got cheaper. Coordination didn’t.Full-Stack BuilderWorkMarch 20, 2026Full-stack used to mean frontend and backend. Now it means one person shipping what used to take a cross-functional team. What changed.AI Needs a SponsorWorkMarch 19, 2026AI adoption doesn’t start with a strategy deck. It starts with one person who has the authority to make it everyone’s job.The Case for AI in Special EducationEducationMarch 8, 2026AI tools for special education are outpacing the policies meant to govern them. IDEA compliance, assistive technology, and what districts are getting wrong.SLD Identification CrisisEducationMarch 4, 2026Algorithmic models for learning disability identification fail at the level of chance. The research case for clinical reasoning over formulaic gatekeeping.AI Literacy MandateWorkEducationFebruary 13, 2026The U.S. Department of Labor just made AI literacy a foundational workforce skill. What that means for every role, and what the framework gets wrong.Measuring Student OutcomesEducationDecember 9, 2025How we built a data system to track IEP progress across thousands of students, and what 98% at-or-above target tells us about virtual special education.AI at HLTH 2025LongevityNovember 22, 2025Five dispatches from HLTH 2025 on ambient AI, teen chatbot dependency, clinical oversight, and why human ingenuity still sets the ceiling.Demystifying Learning DifferencesEducationJuly 21, 2023Research on learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD. Innovative approaches and tools supporting unique learning needs.Drata's PodcastMediaJune 15, 2023In the 9th episode of Compliance Uncomplicated, I discussed the importance of compliance and security in handling sensitive data, the transformative role of AI in cybersecurity, and the significance of open-source communities in AI's future.Generative AI for Children's StorytellingEducationApril 4, 2023How generative AI reshapes children's storytelling, boosting creativity while addressing ethical and data security concerns.Zero Hiccups TalksMediaDecember 19, 2022In this podcast episode, I discuss Polygon as a unique psychology practice that provides online support for individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning differences. I share my personal journey, business scale-up plans, importance of data security, and the promising role of AI in healthcare.Founders GritMediaFebruary 22, 2022As Co-Founder of Thrive Education, I join Mark on an episode of Founders Grit. I share about my journey to founder and CTO and how deals with people from different parts of the globe. Moreover, I share about the difficulties and struggles I faced while hiring remote.Code In CloudMediaNovember 22, 2020At IBM's Code in Cloud conference, I highlighted the crucial role of developers in shaping digital transformation. The discussion emphasized their influence on open-source technologies, cloud computing, and their ability to discern trends amidst overwhelming information.Leadership StoryMediaApril 10, 2020During a project at Politecnico, Quentin Biabaud recounted my leadership journey, as a French engineer made entrepreneur.TDA for Arrhythmia ClassificationResearchLongevityNovember 25, 2019Applying Topological Data Analysis in deep learning for arrhythmia classification. Integration and impact on predictive precision.Exploring Human Cognition and IntelligenceCognitionOctober 19, 2019Complex concepts in human cognition: fluid and crystallized intelligence, Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory, and the Flynn effect.ML for Sleep Stage ClassificationResearchJanuary 13, 2019Machine learning for sleep stage classification: handling EEG data, feature engineering, model building, and prediction smoothing.Clustering with the ToMATo AlgorithmResearchJuly 12, 2018Applying Topological Data Analysis in clustering through the ToMATo algorithm. A novel approach to identify data clusters.Topological Data Analysis for Deep LearningResearchJuly 8, 2018Insights on Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and its applications. Learn how TDA revolutionizes data clustering and analysis.