Every PKM methodology is an assembly of principles designed to solve a specific information constraint. There is no best system. There are only bricks. Build your own.
There Is No Best System
The Escalation Nobody Wins
The tension between enterprise security and the mandate to innovate with AI isn’t new, but AI has compressed it from a manageable chronic condition into an acute crisis where either side losing can kill the company. The problem isn’t the people. It’s the structure.
Natural Ignorance
AI isn’t taking your job. Incompetent leaders using AI as a cover story for cost-cutting they’d do anyway might. And that’s actually good news.
Clanker Technical Architect: First on the Scene with Progressive Disclosure
Part 2 of the Clanker Kanban series. Six software architecture documentation methodologies independently discovered progressive disclosure between 1995 and 2011 without naming it. The artifact pyramid names what they all found. The Technical Architect profile in the Clanker pipeline carries this lineage.
Cat-Herding Clankers: Agile Ceremonies Were Built for Humans. AI Agents Need Something Different.
Part 1 of the Clanker Kanban series. Why sprint ceremonies fail for AI agent coordination and what to build instead. The artifact pyramid, the orchestrator pattern, and four AI-native ceremonies that replace planning meetings with structured handoffs.
Staying Loose: The Creative Impulse as Resistance
In the late 1980s, a former trial lawyer named Denise Shekerjian read a newspaper article about the MacArthur Fellowship. The “genius grant,” people called it. It came with a mysterious phone call, a generous six-figure award paid with no strings attached, and the kind of cultural recognition that changes a life.
Shekerjian was not interested in the money or the prestige. She was interested in the people. She wanted to know what made them what they were.
Dear Gravity, What The Fuck Was That?
We built gravitational-wave detectors to watch black holes collide. We accidentally turned them into the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built. And in 2019, one of them hiccuped.
The Easy Fix Maintainers Refuse to Take
AI-generated PRs are overwhelming open source maintainers. A solution already exists in the AGENTS.md convention. So why won’t they use it?
The Smartest Agent Orchestration Framework Doesn’t Have a Scheduler
Everyone building multi-agent systems assumes coordination needs a new infrastructure layer. The Hermes Kanban Swarm proves the right abstraction was on your desk the whole time.
The Internet’s First Microblog Was Built on Trust. That Was the Problem.
Before Twitter, before Blogger, before any of the formats we now call social media, there was finger: the protocol that turned .plan files into the web’s first public status updates. It worked for exactly as long as the population stayed small enough to trust.
Running a 35B MoE Model on a 16GB Consumer GPU
How to serve Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, on an RTX 5070 Ti using llama.cpp. Full config, performance numbers, and the flags that make it fit.
The Tragedy of the Uncrossed Campus
Three research communities, three funding streams, three separate literatures. A sensor that could exist has been proposed for nine years and nobody has built it, because the people with the answers don’t read each other’s work.
The Silicon Spider
A jumping spider’s depth perception system has been modeled, validated, and explicitly proposed as the blueprint for a sensor cheaper than LIDAR and simpler than stereo vision. Every physical primitive exists in a fab. So why hasn’t anyone built it?