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Learning to Observe: The Architecture of Remembering

October 31, 2025 • data compression ecological monitoring learned salience detection lifelogging macroscope observatory memory architecture observational expertise strata interface

Can we build systems that learn what everything means? This morning's reading about lifelogging and my own digitization urgency converge on a fundamental question: not whether to record, but how to build systems that learn observational expertise.
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From Powerless to Purposeful: A Morning with Mills and Memory

October 29, 2025 • academic administration explorer-scientist identity field ecology independent research intellectual autonomy macroscope observatory scientific infrastructure

Reading C. Wright Mills' 1945 essay crystallized fifty years of professional unease—the shock of seeing my career arc from field naturalist to big science administrator dissected by someone who died before I was born. The trajectory wasn't failure, but adaptation.
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