# Scott Taylor

> Essays on agents, memory and building quietly, by Scott Taylor — CEO at memco.

Every essay is available as markdown at its own URL with a `.md` suffix, or by
sending `Accept: text/markdown`. Each also has a narrated audio version.

## Essays

- [The Mars manifest](https://st.im/essays/the-mars-manifest-which-laws-get-a-seat-on-the-rocket/) — 2025-09-20, 7 min: If we could only take 150 tons of human civilization to Mars, including the laws, systems, and rules, which ones make the cut?
- [The hive mind hypothesis](https://st.im/essays/the-hive-mind-hypothesis/) — 2025-08-28, 4 min: We have AI agents that can write poetry, debug code, and diagnose diseases. Yet each one learns in isolation. This is AI's fundamental limitation.
- [Signals, not scripture](https://st.im/essays/signals-not-scripture/) — 2025-08-13, 4 min: The internet didn't invent bossiness; it industrialised it. Platforms optimise for interaction, and interaction loves confident answers to complicated lives.
- [My journey to co-founding Memco](https://st.im/essays/my-journey-to-co-founding-memco/) — 2025-07-31, 2 min: From running miDrive to global head of AI products at a $320bn asset manager, and finally back to founder roots with Memco.
- [Small acts of tinkering add up](https://st.im/essays/jack-dorseys-bitchat-and-why-tinkering-matters/) — 2025-07-30, 1 min: His latest project, Bitchat, shows why building things from scratch still matters. It's not about perfection; it's about reclaiming control.
- [My mind never switches off](https://st.im/essays/ai-adhd/) — 2025-01-25, 1 min: The AI coding assistant has made it much easier to prove out a hypothesis alone. The result is an ever-expanding list of trials, and slight overwhelm at the new superpower.
- [You can just build things](https://st.im/essays/you-can-just-build-things/) — 2025-01-03, 1 min: 2025 is going to be the year of builders who just jump in with both feet, hack around, inject some creativity, and build in public.

## Pages

- [About](https://st.im/about/): background and current work
- [Build log](https://st.im/build-log/): what is being built, and its status
- [Elsewhere](https://st.im/elsewhere/): recommended reading by other people

## Machine-readable

- [llms.txt](https://st.im/llms.txt): what this site is and when to use it
- [llms-full.txt](https://st.im/llms-full.txt): every essay in full, as one file
- [RSS](https://st.im/rss.xml): the feed
- [Sitemap](https://st.im/sitemap.xml): every canonical URL