I'm running my own life as the first experiment: using AI as a working partner for the parts of my brain that don't work well anymore, and writing down what I learn so other people navigating similar ground don't have to start from zero.
Welcome. This site documents an experiment: using AI as a thinking partner after COVID-19 significantly reduced my cognitive function. It is a first-of-its-kind, cutting-edge collaboration between a human and AI, conducted online and live.
I have had cognitive challenges for as long as I can remember, compounded by childhood trauma that affected my ability to learn. Early in college, I nearly failed out because of exam format, not the material — multiple-choice tests did not show what I actually knew. I started writing my reasoning in the margins, to prove I understood the material. One professor noticed, let me finish the rest of the exams in essay form, and told me to take only essay-graded classes from then on. That advice changed the course of my education.
Oliver works the same way for me now. Essay exams and Oliver are both tools that let me show and organize my thinking in a format that actually works, instead of one that gets in the way. I can no longer hold complex ideas together without help. Building a system with AI to do that has been the most effective thing I have done since college.
This is where I document that process. I am excited and hopeful that this collaboration can help me regain a sense of normalcy in my life, and possibly accomplish goals I once believed were unattainable. I invite you to look through it with me, and to think along with me about what a good future between humans and AI could look like.