LONGITUDE AI
Narrative intelligence — a longitudinal model of a person, from the record of their own life
Product concept — where this goes →Ask the archive — live →Ask his digital version →

One life, read as one document.

Every document its founder wrote from age 10 to 20 — extracted, cleaned, coded by hand across five thematic threads, and measured by 21 computational lexicons. Every claim below opens to the sentences that produced it.

349documents
324,565words analyzed
10 yrsages 10 – 20
2analysis layers
21pattern lexicons
4 / 5threads cross-validated

The corpus

Documents per era. Hover any bar. The archive begins at age ten — because a fifth-grade report was a Google Doc.

Elementary ’16–17 — 2 documents
2
Grades 7–8 ’18–20 — 130 documents
130
Grade 9 ’20–21 — 55 documents
55
Grade 10 ’21–22 — 28 documents
28
Grade 11 ’22–23 — 15 documents
15
Post-secondary ’24–25 — 6 documents
6
University ’25–26 — 113 documents
113
Elementary
’16–17
Grades 7–8
’18–20
Grade 9
’20–21
Grade 10
’21–22
Grade 11
’22–23
Post-secondary
’24–25
University
’25–26

The signature arcs

Six patterns that tell the through-story: raw aggression and negative emotion recede while analytical reasoning and self-reflection climb — the writer turning from feeling-on-the-page toward examining the feeling. Technology peaks at university; family & heritage spikes where the grandmother narratives live. Lines are indexed to each pattern's own peak (100 = its highest era) so different-sized patterns share one axis.

10075 5025 0 ElemG7–8 G9G10 G11G12 Univ Analytical reasoning — peak era: Grade 12 Aggression — peak: Grades 7–8 (1.69/1k words) Aggression — Grade 11 low (0.56/1k words) Aggression — university rebound (1.19/1k), as structural critique Reflexivity — peak era: Grade 12 Technology — peak era: university (Cyborg Anthropology) Negative emotion — highest in the earliest surviving work Family & heritage — Grade-10 peak (20.8/1k words) Family & heritage — university (8.7/1k words) Technology Family & heritage Negative emotion
Analytical reasoning Anger / aggression Reflexivity / self-awareness Technology Negative emotion Family & heritage
Arc shapes reproduced from the live pattern dashboard ("Patterns in a Writing Life"), indexed to each pattern's own peak era. Labeled figures are measured rates; hover any marked point.

Every pattern, over time

All 21 lexicons, Elementary → Georgetown. Filter by family; each sparkline is the pattern's word-rate per era, indexed to its own peak. The badge shows net change from first era to last. Shapes reproduced from the live dashboard.

Positive emotion
Emotional tone
peak: Grades 7–8▼ falling
Negative emotion
Emotional tone
peak: Elementary▼ falling
Joy / delight
Emotional tone
peak: Grade 10▲ rising
Sadness / longing
Emotional tone
peak: Grades 7–8▲ rising
Fear / anxiety
Emotional tone
peak: Grade 12▲ rising
Anger / aggression
Emotional tone
peak: Grades 7–8▲ rising
Love / affection
Emotional tone
peak: Grade 9▲ rising
Mortality / loss
Emotional tone
peak: Grade 11▲ rising
Trust / faith
Character
peak: Grade 10▲ rising
Hope / aspiration
Character
peak: Grade 12▲ rising
Resilience / grit
Character
peak: Grade 12▲ rising
Social connection
Character
peak: Georgetown▲ rising
Certainty / conviction
Voice
peak: Grade 10— steady
Hedging / tentativeness
Voice
peak: Grade 11▼ falling
Analytical reasoning
Intellect
peak: Grade 12▲ rising
Reflexivity / self-awareness
Intellect
peak: Grade 12▲ rising
Family & heritage
Identity
peak: Grade 10▼ falling
Valuation / money
Identity
peak: Elementary▼ falling
Technology
Identity
peak: Georgetown▲ rising
Power & justice
Identity
peak: Grade 12▲ rising
Food & the senses
Identity
peak: Grade 11▲ rising

Patterns · click any card for its receipts

Each finding pairs the close-reading layer with the measurement layer. Confirm/reject is the product mechanic: user verification becomes ground truth on which machine-read insights about a person are actually true.

Cross-generational · Thread T5

The prayer, twice

His great-grandmother, born 1930, wrote the Navkar Mantra in her journal as a girl to feel protected during British patrols. Seventy years later, he filled spiral notebooks with the same prayer to quiet his mind. Neither knew. The two documents sit nine years apart in the archive — only a full-corpus pass puts them side by side.

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“When soldiers came, we would close the windows and go silent.” — recorded photo-elicitation interview; as a girl she wrote the Navkar Mantra in her journal to feel protected.
DOC 282 · Family history paper · University era
“As long as my pen kept moving, my mind was quiet.” — copying the Navkar Mantra, in Prakrit, into 99-cent spiral notebooks as self-regulation.
DOC 299 · Literacy narrative · University era
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Voice · Observer stance

The observer split

In an early-teens story, the pronouns slip involuntarily — the character “Bob” keeps becoming “I” mid-sentence. At sixteen, the same split is authored deliberately: a self-portrait written as two people, a public performer and a private observer. An accident became a technique.

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Persistent “Bob” ↔ “I” pronoun slippage across the adventure story — the narrator cannot stay outside his character.
DOC 089 · Creative speech · Grades 7–8 era
A deliberate two-voice self-portrait: the outward performer, and the inner observer who listens to Hindi music where no one can hear.
DOC 214 · “Atishay y Yo” (Spanish) · Grade 10
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Identity · Valuation lexicon

The valuation reflex

At ten, a report on Leonardo ends by noting the Mona Lisa’s $768,000,000 valuation. At twelve, a fictional coin is priced at exactly $1,888,696,690. The money lexicon runs strongest in the earliest eras and recedes across the decade — until the late corpus critiques commodification instead of enacting it.

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Fun-facts closing includes the Mona Lisa’s $768M valuation — values expressed via price tags at age ten.
DOC 000 · Da Vinci report · Elementary era
A currency booth values the “galactical world coin” at exactly USD $1,888,696,690.
DOC 089 · Creative speech · Grades 7–8 era
“Art loses personal meaning when it is commodified” — the diaspora’s “machinery for commodifying cultural practice.”
DOC 295–296 · Autoethnographic zine · University era
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Convergence · Family & heritage lexicon

The family heartbeat — measured

20.8per 1k words · Grade 10
8.7per 1k words · University

Family-and-heritage language is the corpus’s most persistent signal. It spikes exactly where the close-reading layer independently found the family narratives — the two layers agree without consulting each other.

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Grade-10 spike: the grandmother-and-kurta narrative cluster — an elder opens a physical photo album to transmit a hidden family truth.
DOCs 195–198, 211 · Personal narratives · Grade 10
“…these types of stories go missing unless they are passed down.” — written at sixteen, in a rough draft about his grandmother. The company’s thesis, four years early.
DOC 196 · Narrative draft · Grade 10
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Resolution · Technology thread

The 2019 contradiction that wasn’t

At thirteen, four months apart: a research paper arguing AI restores connection for isolated elderly patients, and an essay titled “Technology Contributes to a Quarantined Life.” Read together, both defend the same value — human connection — and disagree only about the mechanism. Carried as a contradiction; resolved by the corpus.

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The Mabu companion robot gives isolated elderly patients “a sense of companionship” and “quality time with their families.”
DOC 072 · AI-in-healthcare paper · May 2019, age 13
“Elderly grandparents desire a hand-written letter from their grandkids, but all they receive is a text saying: ‘Thanks, Grandma.’”
DOC 049 · “Technology Contributes to a Quarantined Life” · Sept 2019
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Tone · Aggression lexicon

Conflict language, transformed

1.69per 1k · Grades 7–8
0.56per 1k · Grade 11
1.19per 1k · University

The aggression lexicon peaks in the Grades 7–8 persona-writing cluster, falls steadily through Grade 11, then rebounds at university — but the rebound is structural-violence critique in anthropology coursework, not visceral conflict. Same words, different work.

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Civil-War letters, historical persona speeches, and a DBQ prosecuting abuse of power — the era of embodied conflict writing.
DOCs 040–042, 007, 023 · Grades 7–8
University-era hits cluster in critiques of technology as power — coercion “below the threshold of force,” systems that strip human friction.
DOC 252 · Cyborg Anthropology portfolio · University era
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