Opening the technical notebook

I’m building a company as a technical founder, and much of my learning happens in the process of making things work.

So far, that work has included a voice agent, a content agent for creating videos, and fine-tuning a small TTS model. I’m also exploring new models and training a wake-word model.

This notebook is where I’ll keep the practical details: what I tried, what happened, and what I would want to know if I were starting again.

Two kinds of writing

TIL is the broad notebook. Entries can be small: a configuration detail, a debugging discovery, a model comparison, or a lesson from building a working system.

Research is more focused. That is where I’ll develop questions about emotionally intelligent AI, connect the literature, and design experiments with enough detail for others to reproduce.

What makes a useful note

For each technical note, I want to preserve the problem, the relevant setup, the attempted solution, the observation, and the limitations. Code and configuration belong beside the explanation when they help someone try it themselves.

This first entry introduces the notebook. Detailed project notes will follow as I prepare them for publication.