One source at a time. Connect, small ingest, dream --dry-run, dream,
read the brief. Then the next source. Five at once is undebuggable.
Dry-run before every dream that matters. It prices the pass and shows the
bundles the model will see. Surprises belong in preview, not in bills.
Read the gate before widening.memcal gatecheck tells you whether a new
source's traffic is signal or noise shaped like signal. Tune senders (memcal
senders), top-tier people (memcal top), and mutes before paying for a
full pass.
Mute for noise, block for never. Muting keeps archive rows and stops model
spend; blocking drops the sender entirely. Platform mutes are recorded, not
fought.
Correct in the open, in the day. A wrong row fixed with a typed write now
beats a perfect dream tonight — and the correction survives the night. Never
let a wrong answer sit because "dream will fix it."
Name people early.memcal who --adopt is free; an afternoon of --confirm
and --split beats a month of misattributed rows. Contacts-backed identities
outrank all future guesses.
Keep the wiki lazy. Pages earn existence from evidence, not from contact
imports. Facts on pages, obligations in to-dos, uncertainty in questions —
each in its typed home.
Schedule the night job.memcal schedule install makes freshness and dream
automatic: catch-up collection on wake, the full pass when owed, cheap checks
otherwise.
Review weekly.memcal review plus the Runs tab: what it wrote, what it
asks, what it could not resolve. Ten minutes here prevents zombie to-dos and
stale pages.
Measure plumbing free, quality deliberately. The integration benchmark runs
in a second on every change; the model layer and the seven-day experiment spend
real money and run on declaration, frozen corpora, and held-out lives.