When Henry Molaison died, they put his brain to the medical equivalent of an industrial meat slicer. His brain was indexed across a couple thousand scans.

Henry had anterograde amnesia, meaning he couldn't remember very well, yet most of what we now know about memory can be attributed to him.

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We're keen to distinguish ourselves from AI. While we pride ourselves on how we think, maybe the real difference lies in what we consume.

For now, here's how our inputs differ:

• our inputs are multimodal: visuals, audio, touch, taste, scent
• our inputs are others: friends, family, acquaintances
• our inputs are serendipitous

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My name is Toby. I'm a third year at the University of Chicago studying economics and psychology. Recently, I've been thinking a lot about the relationship between memory, time, writing, and materialization.

For the past three years, I've put down a journal entry every day about what I saw, heard, did, experienced, thought about. Here's that data. An attempt at decreasing the distance between you and me.

Coming soon.