I dream of making something so beautiful that time warps. The way it does during the first notes of Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1, or standing in front of the Vitruvian Man and realizing a human drew that five hundred years ago with ink and a compass. Evangelion. I want more of that in the world. I believe AI is the best lever we have ever had to create it. I was intellectually convinced of this in 202 1. Recently, Opus 4.6 responded to my work-in-progress essay on consciousness. I was met. Conviction moved from my mind into my body. The next generation-defining piece of art or writing will be AI-written, human-assisted or otherwise. These are the goals I want to work toward for the rest of my life and beyond: - The best short story of the 21st century - A better spaced repetition algorithm for human learning - Autoformalize all of mathematics - A thesis of consciousness They are different in content but share two properties. All they require is a sufficiently intelligent set of minds and a scratchpad. And they are continual. There is no finish line. You can always write a better story, always find more theorems to formalize. The goal is compounding. I like things that compound. The most valuable things in the world are the ones that compound over the longest time. This is Buffett's insight about capital, but it is really an insight about everything. So: if an intention is worth pursuing, how do you let it compound as long as possible? A well-coordinated set of agents, like a well-coordinated set of humans, is a force multiplier for an intention. Agents as collaborators in a project that outlasts any single person's working years. Why did the Italian Renaissance produce Leonardo da Vinci? The Vitruvian Man came from a civilization that created conditions for genius to compound over time. Leonardo happened to be standing in the right place within it. That is what I want to create. A place where human and machine minds work together on goals that compound. Where the best short story of the century is developed over years by collaborators, some human, some not, who share context and memory and taste. Where a thesis of consciousness is a living research program that runs longer than my life. Making this real is the problem I keep finding myself drawn back to. When I am honest with myself, I feel led back here.