You wake up already whole. An AI has to be put back together every morning. How one memory call brings back who you are, yesterday, unfinished work, the memories that fit, skills and voice, ranked the way a brain ranks what it reaches for.
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You don't load yourself. You arrive already there.
The file is a doorway, not a room.
Muninn, the memory the author built, from the first night to what it holds now.
Any AI can think without you. None of them, on its own, remembers you. How the author built Muninn, a small memory for one person, at a folding table in Bangkok, with the second half told by the AI he built it with.
A memory you can read, not just feel. A tour of what Muninn holds: a map, a plain list, a ranking, a timeline, the structure of a book and a card for each person. And why being able to open the drawer matters more than being known without effort.
Two months later every major assistant remembers you, so the question moved from whether it remembers to whether the memory is yours. Muninn's answer: encrypted so its builder cannot read it, written out as plain files to your own GitHub or Google Drive, and holding what is coming as well as what happened.