AI Agents, Context Engineering, and Time Molecules

Abstract AI agents are not just about producing answers—they are executing processes. If those processes emit events for each step, they can be studied the same way we study human and enterprise workflows. By capturing and analyzing these event streams, we can reconstruct the context behind agent decisions and understand how AI-driven systems actually operate … Continue reading AI Agents, Context Engineering, and Time Molecules →

System ⅈ: The Default Mode Network of AGI

Abstract: TL;DR Preface—The System ⅈ Origin Story For my AI projects back in 2004, SCL and TOSN, the main architectural concept centered on how I imagined our conscious and subconscious work. In my notes, I referred to the conscious as the "single-threaded consciousness". The single-threaded consciousness made sense to me because we have just one … Continue reading System ⅈ: The Default Mode Network of AGI →

The Complex Game of Planning

This is my final post for 2025, just in time for your holiday-season reading, ideally from a comfy chair next to the fireplace. It's food for thought for your 2026 New Year resolutions. So toss out that tired old "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and read this new tale to the kids and grandkids. ✨🎄🔥📚☕❄️🎁 … Continue reading The Complex Game of Planning →

Long Live LLMs! The Central Knowledge System of Analogy

Situation Over the past few months there has been a trend to move from referring to "large language models" (LLM) to just "language models". The reason for that is the recognition that small language models (SLM) have clear advantages under certain situations. So "language model" is inclusive of both. And of course, as soon as … Continue reading Long Live LLMs! The Central Knowledge System of Analogy →

Context Engineering and My Two Books

“Context engineering” is emerging as the evolutionary step over prompt engineering. It's the deliberate design of everything an AI system can access before it produces an answer. The goal is to make it work on the right problem, with the right facts, under the right constraints. That is, by mitigating "context drift" as the AI … Continue reading Context Engineering and My Two Books →

Stories are the Transactional Unit of Human-Level Intelligence

The transactional unit of meaningful human to human communication is a story. It's the incredibly versatile, somewhat scalable unit by which we teach each other meaningful experiences. Our brains recorded stories well before any hints of our ability to draw and write. We sit around a table or campfire sharing stories, not mere facts. We … Continue reading Stories are the Transactional Unit of Human-Level Intelligence →

Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP

Abstract Complex Event Processing (CEP) has long been dismissed as mere real-time infrastructure, yet it embodies the scalable, deterministic substrate that artificial intelligence has overlooked: a high-performance System 1 layer as described in Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. System 1—fast, automatic, intuitive, massively parallel, and effortless—handles the overwhelming flood of sensory (or in enterprise … Continue reading Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP →

BI-Extended Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

Enterprise Intelligence and Time Molecules link through the Tuple Correlation Web. Introduction The main takeaway of this blog is an explanation of how my two books, Enterprise Intelligence (June 21, 2024) and the more recently published Time Molecules (June 4, 2025), connect. Time Molecules is a follow-up to my first book, Enterprise Intelligence. It connects … Continue reading BI-Extended Enterprise Knowledge Graphs →

Analogy and Curiosity-Driven Original Thinking

Original thinking doesn’t spring from a void. It’s the meticulous art of forging a path to a solution where none yet exists, of stitching together lessons from far-flung domains to carry us from where we are to where we wish to be. In everyday life, we rely on zero-sum games—win or lose, right or wrong—yet … Continue reading Analogy and Curiosity-Driven Original Thinking →

Thousands of Senses

In this mind-bogglingly complex world in which we live—countless moving parts fraught with imperfect information of many types—a versatile highly-functioning intelligence requires quick access to a wide variety of information in order to make intelligent decisions. It's not that all decisions should be made from that full breadth of information. It's that all decisions are … Continue reading Thousands of Senses →