NanoClaw — Personal Claude Assistant (second brain for a diplomat) (more)

The infrastructure layer for your thinking. One database, one AI gateway, one chat channel. Any AI you use can plug in. No middleware, no SaaS chains, no Zapier. This isn't a note-taking app. It's a database with vector search and an open protocol — built so that every AI tool you use shares the same persistent memory of you. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, whatever ships next month. One brain. All of them. Open Brain was created by Nate B. Jones. https://github.com/NateBJones-Projects/OB1 (more)

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Cedric Chin: The Dangers of Treating Life as a Game. Late last year I wrote an essay titled Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win? which seems to have haunted a great many people. ((2021-09-21) Chin Are You Playing To Play Or Playing To Win) (more)

Simone Stolzoff: Playing a Career Game You Actually Want to Win. After a half-decade of working in tech marketing, I grew disillusioned by the corporate presentations and ad campaigns. I wanted to be a real writer. So I decided to pursue a degree to legitimize my intention. (more)

I’m C. Thi Nguyen. I used to be a food writer, now I’m a philosophy professor at University of Utah. I write about trust, art, games, and communities. I’m interested in the ways that our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. My first book is Games: Agency as Art. It was awarded the American Philosophical Associations 2021 Book Prize. It’s about how games are the art form that work in the medium of agency. A game designer doesn’t just create a world – they create who we are in that world. Games shape temporary agencies for artistic purposes. https://objectionable.net/

Robin Sloan: Karpathy's keel. Andrej Karpathy is so clearly one of the good ones. It’s not his brilliance that makes him notable, but rather his apparent compulsion for public communication and indeed public service—along with his even-keeled sanity. (more)

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Nate B Jones: Why every system you've tried has failed + grab the 90-minute guide to one that won't. Most second brain systems die the same death. You find a tool, set it up with real enthusiasm, capture notes for a few weeks. Then the pile gets messy. You stop trusting it. You stop using it. The whole thing quietly collapses, and you tell yourself you’ll try again when life calms down. (more)

Nate B Jones: Cold job market applications have a <2% response rate now + the warm path system that replaces them (includes a guide and prompts!) *For twenty years, we’ve had a specific relationship with the platforms that hold our data... we accept whatever interpretation of our information the platform chooses to show us.... That era is ending. (more)

Nate B Jones: The feature nobody covered this week just turned your AI memory system into an autonomous agent + the guide to wire it up. *Anthropic shipped a feature earlier this month called /loop. It’s a command inside Claude Code that lets an agent run a task on a schedule, every five minutes, every hour, every morning at 9am, without you sitting there prompting it. The coverage so far has been about developer convenience. Automated monitoring and background polling. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky interview: Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era. Tony Fadell created the iPod, co-created the iPhone, and founded Nest (which he sold to Google for $3.2 billion). He’s co-authored over 300 patents, was part of the legendary team at General Magic, and wrote one of the most important and inspiring books for builders, called Build. (more)

Nate B Jones: Executive Briefing: Distribution Ate Capability — What the Cognition–pp Deal Reveals. The story shaping billions in AI investment decisions goes like this: startups disrupt slow incumbents, giants transform or die, fastest adopters win. It feels urgent and actionable. It’s misleading about where the real danger lies. (more)

Nate B Jones: Why your AI starts from zero every time you open a new chat + my Open Brain guide: the $0.10/month, 45-min fix. Every time you open a new chat window, your AI starts from zero. Every tool switch costs you minutes of re-explaining context that should already be there. That’s not a prompting problem — it’s a memory problem, and it’s quietly capping everything you do with AI. This post makes the case for the Open Brain.

Robert Matsuoka: What’s In Your Second Brain? The modern CTO toolkit isn’t just apps and coding tools. The real differentiator is a custom knowledge layer — databases, search indices, memory graphs, behavioral instructions that compound over time. No product gives you this. You build it. (more)

Nate B Jones: Why it's time to escape the (job market) application pile + the exact site I shipped (no code required!). LinkedIn is dead. You know this. Everyone applying for jobs in 2025 knows this. (more)

Christian/curious: In late 2024, the first version of the MCP spec was launched and my friend @jlehman_ showed me what was probably one of the top three most mind-blowing demos of AI I've ever seen — he was using Claude Desktop and, if I remember correctly, a local MCP server called something like "what could go wrong" to control his whole computer just by prompting Claude. (more)

Nate B Jones: Karpathy's viral AI wiki has a flaw most of the 100K people who bookmarked it haven't noticed yet. A few weeks ago, Andrej Karpathy posted an idea that more than a hundred thousand people bookmarked. On the surface it sounded almost too simple: use your AI to build and maintain a personal wiki. (LLM-Wiki) (more)

Avi Cavale: You Don't Need 47 Agents. *I was looking at a competitor’s docs the other day—I won’t say which one—and I counted. They had 15 named agents. Here are a few of them: a code review agent, a testing agent, a documentation agent, a deployment agent, and a “planning” agent. Each had its own configuration, its own persona, and its own set of hardcoded instructions. (more)

Andrej Karpathy: Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) (more)