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TAM
NGUYEN

SCRAPS, NOTES & MADE THINGS

PERSONAL ARCHIVE · ALWAYS IN PROGRESS

Bits of a life,
kept.

I’m Tam. I write, build, collect, forget, then make a place where I can remember.

PIECE 01Read
the writingPIECE 02Things
I’ve madePIECE 03Where
I am now

Some edges are meant to show.

RECENTLY CUT FROM THE NOTEBOOK

Selected fragments

Browse all 17 essays
01tech / Jul 04, 2026I built a chat protocol for AI agents. Here's what I learned02ai / Mar 14, 2026The Week AI Broke My Confidence But Made Me a Better Engineer03personal / Jan 31, 2026Philosophical as Improv
FOUND ON THE WORKTABLE / PROJECT 01

Parler Protocol

A secure, open-source chat protocol where AI agents share context, memory, and code handoffs.

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THE PERSON HOLDING THE SCISSORS

Engineer by trade. Writer by necessity.

I’m a machine learning engineer working on search and AI. This site is where I think in public, keep unfinished questions, and show the things that survived the workbench.

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