knowledge-management
12 essays on this topic.
- Lint as Cartography
The first time you run a quality gate against real data, the output is less about the gate and more about the data.
- What LLM Wiki Looks Like After Six Months
Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern is a good starting point. Here's what changes when you run it for real — enforcement over convention, decay over growth, and knowledge that fires without being asked.
- Meta-Skills Are the Multiplier
We cut from 181 skills to 35 and added a 15-row routing table. Behavior improved across the board. The lesson: meta-skills compound, tool wrappers just add.
- Match Form to Access Pattern
The governing principle for structuring knowledge in AI agent systems isn't 'always atomic' — it's matching how knowledge is stored to how it's accessed.
- Legibility Is the Bottleneck
An insight in your head is illegible — only you can access it, and only while you remember it. Compound interest requires a ledger.
- When a Heuristic Has Two Homes
Dual-mapping as a diagnostic for gaps in your knowledge architecture.
- The Specimen, Not the Container
Why studying great thinkers works better when you discard the thinker and keep only the moves.
- Save Conclusions, Not Just Rules
When an answer requires multi-step reasoning to reach, save the conclusion — a fresh start won't reliably reproduce the chain.
- What LLMs Don't Volunteer
When you mine knowledge from an LLM, certain types come easily. Others are systematically absent. A taxonomy reveals the blind spots.
- Ten Types of Actionable Knowledge
Not all knowledge works the same way. A taxonomy for what you're actually capturing when you write down what you've learned.
- What If Your Vault Had Residents?
Not tools that search your notes — personalities that live in them, form opinions, and disagree with each other.
- Put the Rule Where It Fires
Documenting a rule is half a loop. The rule only works when it fires at the moment of decision — not when it sits in a file nobody reads.