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G La Londe V sitting on stepping stones playing a classical guitar
Founder & CEO — Mementōte, Inc.

G La Londe V

Building Time Machine: recordings that can only ever be played back where they were made.

mementote.co
Based
Del Mar, California
Elsewhere

Where it came from

Two stacks of well-used notebooks, dated on their page edges

The idea came out of journaling. Not from a market gap — from noticing that a page written in one place read differently when you came back and read it standing there.

That question became formal study. At Berkeley I took a BA in Philosophy and Cognitive Science with a certificate in Generative AI, and turned most of it toward one problem: how an external recording changes the brain that made it. I held a fellowship with the Greater Good Science Center under Lou Deringer, Dacher Keltner, and Gehl Architects, working on what I called recursive reflection. Coursework became Time Machine research, usually alongside the professors whose work it drew on.

A space is just coordinates. A place is a space someone has lived in.

The rest of it was built in public — installations, band shows, a Time Machine guitar vocoder, parties where the whole room left something behind. Grizzly Peak. Memorial Glade. Phi Psi Surfrider. Kibera. All of the visual, written, and audio work I make, I make as Time Machines, and I leave them where they were made.

I've been full-time since graduating. I write the code — iOS, web, functions, and the tmkit SDK — almost entirely with Claude Code.

Places

A room mid-build with TIME MACHINE written on the wall, cables and painted paper across the floor
Berkeley, California

The room where it got built. Written on the wall before it was written in Swift.

Four people standing at the entrance of a geodesic dome painted like the moon, with a hand-lettered sign reading THIS IS A TIME MACHINE, DROP YOUR MEMORY
G climbing the exposed steel frame of the geodesic dome above a plywood panel with a hanging microphone
G in waders on mossy boulders beside a fast alpine river, fly rod bent, arms out
G standing on a links golf tee among dunes and marram grass with the ocean behind

Education

Dec 2021 — Dec 2025
University of California, BerkeleyBA
Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Certificate in Generative AI.
Jun — Aug 2024
Rangjung Yeshe InstituteKathmandu University
Centre for Buddhist Studies. Kathmandu, Nepal.
Aug — Nov 2019
Swiss SemesterSemester abroad
A term in the Alps, midway through high school.
Aug 2018 — May 2022
St. Xavier High SchoolDiploma
Graduated with distinction in entrepreneurship. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Everyone else turns place into content. I turn space into place.

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