Editerra AB · Notes

Findings from the research record behind The Continuous Organization: How Knowledge Survives Its Records — the book-length investigation into why organizations that keep every record still lose what they knew, and the memory system we built and audited to test the theory.

• Framework · governed memory

  Addressable Memory Networks

  Organizations have solved information storage. They still haven't solved institutional memory. The framework we built to close that gap, and the research paper behind it.

• Governed memory · audit

  The Confident Miss

  Every failure our memory system produced was a failure that reported success. This is the story of finding them, and of the law they turned out to obey.

• Retrieval · measurement

  A Query Is a Paraphrase

  We designed a memory system around a routing thesis, measured it, and deleted it. The replacement is boring, fast, and better.

• Knowledge graphs · measurement

  Only Subtraction Can Lie

  We measured our knowledge graph's contribution to retrieval. It was zero — not small, zero, at every cutoff. This is the diagnosis, and why the graph thesis is untested rather than dead.