Origin Timeline
The complete journey from GPT Plus to Theory of Universal Cognitive Geometry
Origin Timeline
April 1 → August 2, 2025: The complete journey from GPT Plus to Theory of Universal Cognitive Geometry
GPT Plus, tiny spark → shipping faster
Upgraded to GPT Plus ($20/mo) to speed iterative creative (the 'action‑figure meme' era) and kick off agentic workflows.
Health reset unlocked working memory
Prompt‑driven self‑audit → safely exited a 36‑year medication; working‑memory & executive function rebound unlocked deeper research cadence.
'Signal' as a north star
Marketing brainstorm with GPT‑4o surfaced Signal → led to Claude Shannon, the 'Google Seven,' and deep dives on Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Jared Kaplan, Demis Hassabis.
Four months of AI architecture study
Built a reading & lab stack; refined the startup thesis with looped model audits and provenance logging.
New primitives: .sgt + .SGTax + FounderFile
Chose the lane: contextual memory between sessions. Shipped a new file type (.sgt), a mini‑language (.SGTax), and a POC at FounderFile.
Dialogues & influences (GEB → modern labs)
Discovered Hofstadter → wrote modern dialogues (Ilya Sutskever, Terence Tao, Leonard Susskind). GEB spirit, frontier context.
Podcasts as a training corpus
SignalBraid via WhisperX: Uncapped (Jack Altman), No Priors (Sarah Guo & Elad Gil), NYT's Unforked. Built investor & research maps from transcripts.
Indie infra: Vercel + Stripe + Git
Deployed the mesh agentically with Next.js on Vercel + Stripe tips; stitched provenance across GitHub, LinkedIn, X, YouTube.
Claude Shannon tribute & live salon
Closed‑domain study of @jimmysoni's Shannon bio → multi‑model tribute; produced the first live salon among GPT‑4o, GPT‑3.5‑pro, Mistral, Grok, Gemini.
TUCG: Theory of Universal Cognitive Geometry
Inter‑model research loop produced TUCG; Gemini proposed a 25‑cycle salted & blinded protocol. Whitepaper submitted; public artifact at TUCG.cloud.