Personal Knowledge Management
In an age when AI can lie convincingly, we must not delegate understanding.
The information lifecycle
Know your inlets
You decide the structure
Reread, search, connect
Write, build, speak
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I Want to Listen to My Unread Papers, Not Read Them — and the Auto-Podcast Wasn't Enough5 min
Auto-generated podcasts turn any text into natural-sounding audio, but they're thin on examples and ask no real questions. So I built a pipeline that digests a paper with concrete examples and an interviewer-grade questioner — as an on-ramp to the primary source, not a replacement for it.
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How Walking to Get More Exercise Led to an Insight About Intellectual Productivity and an App Idea4 min
A simple habit I started for exercise has, in a roundabout way, led me to think about intellectual production, the challenge of capturing thought, and a concept for an app.
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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Tidy Up Notes That Once Mattered but Gathered Dust3 min
Notes I once thought were important, now quietly gathering dust. Before adding new connections, let go of the old ones. The story of an Obsidian plugin I built to help with that kind of tidying.
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The Art of Forgetting in this Information Society2 min
An architecture of being able to forget matters in this information society.
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The Notes You Can No Longer Find, and Two Kinds of Work4 min
The more notes you keep, the harder it is to reach the one you want. You recut folders, add tags, and it collapses again. Organizing itself had become the work. But organizing is two things: the kind you may hand off, and the kind you must not.
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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Surface My Most-Edited Notes3 min
An Obsidian plugin that automatically counts meaningful edits and helps you identify the notes you revisit most. Here's the thought process behind building it.
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We Must Not Delegate Understanding1 min
In an era where generative AI can tell sophisticated lies, we must not delegate the act of thinking and connecting dots in our own words.
Posts for this stage are coming.