A personal knowledge base following the Zettelkasten methodology, maintained by LLMs using the LLM Wiki pattern.
Interlinked notes organized by topic. Browse in Obsidian for graph view and backlinks, or read the full index.
2026-05-26LKY operating system: how to pick what to work on - Mid-career operating system applied to Vietnamese founder: six mental models, eight-question filter, concentration over portfolio; the 2055 question overrides everything2026-05-26The capital portfolio framework: beyond money - Seven capital forms (economic, trust, time, knowledge, network, symbolic, optionality); time is the only irreplaceable input; mid-career work is mostly withdrawal-prevention2026-05-26The Greek prefix para- means beside -para-= beside; paragraph was originally the margin stroke beside the text, not the text block; "beside what?" unlocks paramedic / paranormal / paradox / parasite2026-05-25LKY on why Singapore can never build a Google: Vietnam comparison - LKY's five constraints (size, brain drain, Confucian culture, comfort, takeovers); Vietnam inverts market size and risk culture, mirrors brain drain and scholar pull, lacks rule of law and capital2026-05-25What young Vietnamese entrepreneurs should learn from LKY - LKY-flavored founder advice for VN 20s-30s; drop the billion-dollar framing, pick a defensible niche, Singapore as legal venue, plan for acquisition exit2026-05-24Managing Claude Code's agent view (background sessions) - TUI lifecycle, 30-day retention, the worktree-delete gotcha; do not micromanage, name jobs at dispatch and sweep orphaned worktrees2026-05-23Da Nang's historical names: Tourane and Dogpatch - Two outsider names, neither used by locals; Tourane was the French transliteration of Cửa Hàn, Dogpatch was GI slang from Al Capp's Li'l Abner2026-05-18Claude integration with Jupyter notebooks - Three integration paths (NotebookEdit / jupyter-ai or NBI / Jupyter MCP); MCP turns Claude into a real notebook agent that can hit errors, install packages, and re-run2026-05-18Notebook landscape 2026: Jupyter alternatives and competitors - Three camps (Jupyter family, commercial cloud, post-Jupyter reactive); Marimo is the post-Jupyter answer worth migrating to for new work2026-05-18Jupyter architecture: kernel, server, frontend - Three processes (frontend/server/kernel) over HTTP+WebSocket and ZeroMQ; kernel state plus arbitrary cell order is Jupyter's reproducibility footgun
Obsidian Clipper (raw) ──┐
Claude Code (refined) ───┤──► this repo ──► Obsidian reads/lints/links
Claude AI skill (refined)┘
- Ingest: new knowledge arrives from web clips, coding sessions, or research conversations
- Compile: the LLM checks for overlaps, flags contradictions, updates cross-references and synthesis pages
- Query: ask questions against the compiled wiki; good answers get filed back as new notes
- Lint: periodic health checks for orphans, broken links, stale claims
The human thinks and curates. The LLM handles the bookkeeping.
Type these to Claude in this repo (exact wording doesn't matter, intent does):
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
process inbox |
Refine raw _inbox/ captures into the right folder with links |
capture this as a note: ... |
Save a learning moment from the current chat |
compile recent commits / re-ingest |
Run compilation on notes pushed directly to GitHub (backlinks, index, README, log) |
answer from the wiki: ... |
Synthesize across notes, cite with [[wikilinks]] |
file that answer as a wiki page |
Commit a synthesis from chat as a new note |
reorganize the wiki |
Clean up orphans, folders, backlinks |
lint the wiki |
Health check: orphans, broken links, raw stragglers |
Full reference: commands cheatsheet in the usage guide.
| Folder | Domain |
|---|---|
| engineering/ | Software engineering practices, principles, languages |
| life/ | Life philosophy, habits, mindset, career wisdom |
| leadership/ | Management, negotiation, business leadership |
| cs/ | Computer science fundamentals |
| dwarves-kit/ | Dwarves Kit architecture and design |
| hiring/ | Candidate assessment and hiring |
| ai-tooling/ | AI developer tools and evaluations |
| ai/ | AI concepts, memory systems, agent patterns |
| diaspora/ | Vietnamese and Asian diaspora analysis |
| history/ | History, civilizations, geopolitical patterns |
| claude-code/ | Claude Code hooks, skills, workflows |
| coding-agents/ | Agent-laptop ergonomics: sandboxing, opt-in design, integration tradeoffs |
| agentkernel/ | agentkernel CLI gotchas and operational notes |
| crypto/ | Cryptocurrency, blockchain, DeFi, tokenomics |
| wealth/ | Trust-building, business relationships |
| geopolitics/ | Oil crises, government structures |
| startup/ | Startup strategy, product focus |
| health/ | Wellness, nutrition |
| investing/ | Compound interest, startup investing |
| mcp/ | Model Context Protocol |
| pkm/ | Personal knowledge management |
| devtools/ | Developer tools and config |
| patterns/ | Software patterns and anti-patterns |
| philosophy/ | Taoism, I Ching, timing and preparation |
| finance/ | Bond markets, capital structure, compounding knowledge |
| finance-tooling/ | Financial tool evaluations: terminals, data providers, broker platforms, frameworks |
| comp-fin/ | Computational finance: optimization, stochastic control, learning paths |
| optimization/ | Operations research, MILP, mathematical optimization fundamentals |
| career/ | Career strategy, workplace dynamics, office politics |
| macos/ | macOS frameworks and platform-specific architecture |
| local-llm/ | Local LLM economics, Ollama Cloud, Qwen on Apple Silicon |
| networking/ | Tailscale, WireGuard, portless, mesh VPN ergonomics |
| security/ | Threat modeling for AI agents, sandboxing trade-offs |
| decentralized/ | Decentralized git collaboration, p2p protocols |
| math/ | Math vocabulary and notation, Vietnamese-English mapping for QC and comp-fin |
| quantum/ | Quantum computing fundamentals: complexity classes, algorithms, state preparation, Vietnamese terms |
| jupyter/ | Jupyter architecture, usage patterns, Claude integration paths, post-Jupyter reactive notebooks |
| vietnam/ | LKY framework applied to Vietnamese founders and operators; capital portfolio across seven forms |
| etymology/ | Word origins and prefix decompositions |
| youtube/ | YouTube tooling |
| zed/ | Zed editor agent rules and configuration |
- Full note index - catalog of all notes with one-line summaries
- Usage guide - how to add notes, use Obsidian, work with Claude
- Architecture - system design, folder conventions, operations model
- Requirements - feature tracker, design principles, scaling triggers
- Changelog - project decisions log
- Operations log - chronological record of ingests, queries, lints