Where attention belongs

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Dear friend,

2026 has been full of momentum. In the first 37 days, we’ve re-designed and rebuilt from scratch an infrastructure that’s capable of reinforcement learning and self-evolving (just like us!). The new groundwork will allow us to iterate at speed and for scale; but more than that, it reflects a deeper reckoning with what we’re building and why.

Every culture ever existed has built practices for preserving what matters: oral traditions, rites of passage, the careful curation of objects and photographs and shared meals. These were technologies of meaning, ways of saying: this moment counted, this person mattered, this is the shape of my life. Memory is never purely private; it is shaped in dialogue with the world, co-authored through relationship and ritual. We are building in that tradition.

Glia is a multiplayer wiki for your most precious memories. It holds space with attention and empathy, connecting the dots and patterns of your life that you may miss. With your stories, it nurtures the candor and openness required to embrace new challenges — the kind that carries you toward a new status quo of being.

We see memory-making as inherently collective. The stories humans tell — to themselves, to each other, around fires and kitchen tables and long walks — have always been the connective tissue of identity. Our new infrastructure honors this. It handles complex entity-building to trace how you understand the world through connections — the people, places, and moments that form the grammar of who you are. This helps you stay present and focus on what matters, unruffled by distraction and noise.

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” Simone Weil beautifully captures. All around us, the dominant social platforms have chained us to addiction and anxiety. With frazzled attention, we’ve forgotten that this was never about screen time in the first place. The heart of the problem is reclaiming our agency to author our own lives: to fill our world with what we want to remember, not what’s fed to us while we weren’t looking — worse, because we couldn’t look away.

How different would our lives be if we could simply pour our attention back into where it belongs?

Attention is the ink of becoming. We dream of a day when our collective consciousness blooms with stories we’ve threaded together with full attention from the bottom of our hearts — of discovery, friendship, family, and self. We are building a possibility to choose. Choosing a better technology, one that honors human rhythm and amplifies the good and kindness in us. One that finds poetry and an abundance of meaning in the most mundane moments — the small, unremarkable hours that mark the winding, magnificent path of our existence.

Glia holds and protects your attention so you can pay it forward.

This belongs to all of us. We care deeply about building it with you and crafting what you want and need. Thank you for being here. Your attention means everything.

Love,
Erica & Toni