<3/notes/

organization thoughts

rename from ghost to self/ - this repo basically represents my personal stack: personhood, personal artificial intelligence, and my personal stock.

  • personhood: what am i? i am simply the "model" that generates outputs from inputs. i mean, practically speaking that is "all" i really am. anything i think i am beyond this bare reality is perhaps an illusion. not saying it is or isn't, but idk. this much i do know is true because i can clearly see and feel the way in which "i" process inputs and create outputs. this repo contains the core "data" that my personal AI will be trained on.

  • personal AI: an AI that models "me": my taste, intuition, judgement – across the things that matter to me. in the way that general AI labs publish models (gpt 6, etc.) – i will be publishing koopuluri v1, etc. – personal AI models that reflect my uniqueness across the tasks that i do. i will use these personal models of me to help me scale myself across everything that i do.

  • personal stock: share a stake in my success with those who can help me achieve that success. this repo includes all financial expression and data: such as the assets i invest in, the transactions i participate in to enable my exploration, etc. so basically all of the financial aspects of my life go here.

this really simplifies what goes where.

ghost/ is now basically just personhood. and we add personal artificial intelligence and personal stock at the top level beside this.

  • everything i express, and broadly speaking, the data that i generate, goes in here. this includes the inbox data. this includes the "app" for the browsing, inbox, dashboard, etc. this includes all of that. because everything is an expression of "me".

pi/ - only keeps track of the models of me and basically exposes them as an api that i can use to fulfill my desires and scale myself. think of this as the personal version of whatever the frontier labs are producing.

stock/ - the ledger that we basically already have a sense of its shape.

ok let's align on the right naming for this before we get into the contents of each.

repo name should probably be something along lines of "self". just a holistic notion of what i am. because ai is an extension of me. my personal stock is an extension of me (me + my village of supporters who have a stake in me). i.e., this repo will increasingly represent my experience of the human condition: internal and external.

i like self bec. it's also unassuming. not special. well aligned with our design principles.

self/

  • <3
  • π
  • $

^ why not just use the breakdown that we already have? i mean we are, but just the symbols? yea why not. it works.

<3/

  • notes
  • essays
  • videos
  • assets
  • browsing
  • taste (i.e., personal are.na like capture tool within my browser - that also captures my audio notes along with the artifact i capture).
  • inbox
    • active/
    • archived/
  • products/
    • personal-site/

π/

  • v1.0

stock/

  • ledger.json

i think we can work with this. it's another sort of big organizational change - but it feels like a simplification in the right direction - that neatly aligns with the essay / manifesto: personal-stack. i really like the idea of having everything reinforce the core stack structure – including this repo, the personal site design, etc. reinforcement is powerful. and i really do vibe with this sort of breakdown / fragmentation - it feels vv right. good. move on.

i want to think of the personal site as a sort of "reflection" of this self/ repo.

in other words:

  • self/README – whatever you see above the segment control on the site.
  • self/<3/README - whatever you see in that section (like right now this is a header with a list of essays below it - which is what we should see in this README).

this makes things really really simple. basically the directory of self/ is also all the routes in the site! like koopuluri/<3/notes/4234234234 - should just render that note.

v cool. but that means we may not have top level domains anymore - like koopuluri.com/personal-stack - which now would be /<3/essays/personal-stack.

i think we should make an exception ONLY for essays/ - which lead to top level slugs. everything else reflects the actual path in the dir. this is good for now.

oh, and /notes/ - would just render the contents of the readme within notes!

this is really nice because just organizing my own workspace really well automatically organizes my personal site for me!

let's discuss if there is anything we've missed in this... any open questions before we do this big reorg.