How your twin is built

You write

You describe something you lived, in your own words. Nothing gets smoothed out or rewritten into something else. Three sentences or thirty, whatever the memory needs. There's no form to fill in. What makes a memory worth writing lives on creating your twin.

Memory becomes a story

Write a few memories from the same stretch of your life: the pitch that got laughed out of the room, the year with no salary, the phone call where it finally sold. They group into one story: a title, a short summary, a period.

A story is the unit your twin actually works with. One memory rarely carries enough on its own. A few from the same experience turn it into something your twin can speak to.

On the same shelf

The story sits in a category, Work → Venture → Startup for instance, one of nine top-level categories. That puts you on the same shelf as people who lived it too. It's how someone reaches you on Discover, with no feed deciding for them. More on how people find you.

Five layers of a persona

While you write, the machine observes your memories and fills five layers of a persona from them. Nothing in these layers is made up: each observation comes from something you told it.

• Core

  Who you are

  How you would sum yourself up, the values you won't give up, and the goal you are working toward over the long run.

• Lens

  How you see the world

  Your strong views, the areas you know well, and the beliefs that shape how you read what happens.

• Voice

  How you speak

  Your way of communicating, how you tend to react, the people, works and places you mention, and how you relate to others and protect yourself.

• Now

  What is on your mind

  The things that are still unresolved for you today, and what you hope for.

• Affect

  What moves you

  Your fears, what brings you joy, what sets you off, and the limits you keep.

Your twin answers from it

Once there's enough to work with, your twin can take questions about that story. It doesn't play back something pre-written. It blends your memory (what you actually wrote) with a persona built from that memory: how you tend to talk, what you tend to care about. Then it composes a fresh answer, for whoever's asking.

Ask "what was the hardest part," then "would you do it again," about the same story. You'll get two different answers. Same source, two different angles: not two copies of one canned line.

What that answer can and can't know is covered on what your twin knows.

You can change it

Edit or delete the source at any time, right where you wrote it. A correction, a detail you'd rather leave out, a whole memory you no longer want told: it's yours to change.

Later answers follow the change. A conversation someone already had doesn't rewrite itself. It stays exactly as it was. Only what your twin says next reflects the edit.