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[2026-07-14] manual | FGD Prep for Quiet Speakers (personal synthesis)

• User asked for practical FGD prep help: no speaking practice, rarely speaks Indonesian/English aloud, freezes up (gugup) in practice sessions
• Diagnosed as two separate problems (no shape for contributions vs. anticipatory-anxiety loop) rather than one "practice more" problem
• Drew together PARA/3-2-1 (Art of Conversation), paradoxical intention (Man's Search for Meaning), and the FGD scoring criteria (existing ADA prep synthesis) into one practice roadmap
• Pages created: synthesis/fgd-prep-for-quiet-speakers
• Pages updated: synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-design-and-creativity, concepts/paradoxical-intention, wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 3

[2026-07-14] ingest (partial) | GCR Tweet Corpus (2021-2025)

• Consolidated 4 scattered raw Twitter exports (14.6MB) into raw/GCR-tweets-consolidated.csv (1,965 tweets, 0.64MB), deduped and stripped of a redundant metadata column
• Read the corpus chronologically; found 2021-2022 mostly redundant with the already-ingested trade-review source, concentrated new depth on the thin 2023-2025 period per user direction and advisor sanity-check on scope
• Corrected a factual error: GCR's Trump 2024 position was a bet for Trump via Alameda OTC (counterparty Caroline Ellison), not "TRUMPLOSE" tokens
• Major new material: the November 2022 bottom call, the echo bubble framework, FTX collapse week in real time, 2024-2025 return activity
• Pages created: sources/gcr-tweets-2021-2025, concepts/echo-bubble, entities/Caroline-Ellison
• Pages updated: entities/GCR (major expansion), concepts/reflexivity, concepts/trading-edge, wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 3, pages updated: 4

[2026-07-14] ingest (full) | Art of Conversation — Vinh Giang

• Teachable units: PARA framework, 3-2-1 framework, Mastery Cycle, Dunning-Kruger learning curve applied to communication skill, cycle of doom, workplace visibility, communication as learned behavior not fixed identity
• Skipped the source's sales-pitch back half (Stage Academy pricing/testimonials) as non-teachable
• Pages created: sources/art-of-conversation, entities/Vinh-Giang, concepts/para-framework, concepts/three-two-one-framework, concepts/mastery-cycle, concepts/dunning-kruger-learning-curve, concepts/cycle-of-doom, concepts/workplace-visibility
• Pages updated: concepts/identity-based-habits, concepts/deliberate-practice, concepts/reflection-and-review, concepts/plateau-of-latent-potential, concepts/illusions-of-competence, concepts/visibility-paradox, concepts/star-method, concepts/hail-framework, concepts/interview-storytelling, wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 8, pages updated: 10

[2026-06-29] synthesis | Agency Gap

• Thesis: among capable people, the primary differentiator is the decision to act without being told — not ability
• Three mechanisms identified and linked: non-strategic defaults, moat of low status, permission-waiting
• Key insight: the three mechanisms reinforce each other into a stable equilibrium
• Pages created: synthesis/agency-gap
• Pages updated: wiki/index.md

[2026-06-29] audit | Building a Life — Howard Stevenson — independence check

• All 8 concept pages verified against independence test: four-dimensions-of-success, success-as-juggling, sense-of-enough, spiral-of-life, wince-factor, personal-board-of-directors, inflection-points, live-life-forward
• All pass: genuine named concepts, mechanisms, examples, cross-links; linkable from unrelated contexts without source knowledge
• No repairs needed; no weak flags added

[2026-06-29] reingest | Reading list cluster — genuine concept extraction pass

• Identified that original Pass 1 ingest produced rewrites/reorganizations, not genuine atomic concepts; Elephant in the Brain was the exception
• Created: making-success-inevitable, directly-responsible-individual, direction-over-magnitude, taste-as-predictive-models, moat-of-low-status
• Rewrote: impact-agency-and-taste (was 11-line stub), do-things-that-dont-scale (missing Fragile/Fire/Vector/Information sections), keep-your-identity-small (missing mechanism + participants-not-topic insight)
• Updated: relentlessly-resourceful (added running back metaphor — core mechanism was missing)
• Verified as already good: be-impatient, humans-are-not-automatically-strategic, learning-by-writing, categories-of-technical-leadership, bottom-up-research, accountability-sinks, disagreement-hierarchy, tips-for-empirical-alignment-research, shut-up-and-do-the-impossible, forward-chaining-vs-backchaining, energy-management, role-discovery
• Updated wiki/index.md with all 17 missing concept entries from reading list cluster

[2026-06-29] audit | Pass 1 + Pass 2 — reading list cluster + Elephant in the Brain

• Pass 1 (lint): 18 pages missing ## Sources heading (all from this session); 1 page with injected boilerplate (delta-vs-level)
• Fixed all 18 via batch script; removed boilerplate from delta-vs-level and cleared weak tag
• Pass 2 (qualitative): 15 pages sampled — all substantive, no new weak flags needed
• Synthesis scan: no synthesis pages affected by this session's ingests
• Pages updated: ingest-audit.md, 18 concept pages, concepts/delta-vs-level

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | The Elephant in the Brain — Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson

• Teachable units: hidden motives (elephant thesis), strategic self-deception (Trivers + left-brain interpreter), social brain hypothesis (Machiavellian Intelligence), costly signaling (Arabian babbler + peacock tail), conspicuous consumption (Veblen extended), signaling theory of education (Caplan), conspicuous caring (medicine + charity), competitive altruism
• Source upgraded from 20-line stub to full 130-line summary covering all 16 chapters
• 10 images extracted from epub to raw/assets/
• Pages created: concepts/hidden-motives, strategic-self-deception, social-brain-hypothesis, costly-signaling, conspicuous-consumption, signaling-theory-of-education, conspicuous-caring, competitive-altruism; entities/Kevin-Simler, Robin-Hanson
• Pages updated: sources/the-elephant-in-the-brain (upgraded), wiki/index.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] entity | Ben Kuhn, Greg Brockman, Ethan Perez, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Anna Salamon, Holden Karnofsky

• Created 6 missing entity pages for recurring reading list authors
• Pages created: entities/Ben-Kuhn, Greg-Brockman, Ethan-Perez, Eliezer-Yudkowsky, Anna-Salamon, Holden-Karnofsky
• Pages updated: wiki/index.md

[2026-06-29] entity | Paul Graham

• Created missing entity page; appears as author across 6 ingested sources
• Pages created: entities/Paul-Graham
• Pages updated: wiki/index.md

[2026-06-29] ingest (concept repair) | The Age of the Essay — Paul Graham

• Missing concept extraction identified in quality audit; source page existed but linked only to polymath (wrong)
• Pages created: concepts/essay-as-exploration, concepts/meander-principle, concepts/surprise-as-epistemic-target
• Pages updated: sources/the-age-of-the-essay-paul-graham (fixed Related links), wiki/index.md

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Against Almost Every Theory of Impact of Interpretability + Ngo comment

• Teachable units: original post = whack-a-mole critique of interpretability theories of impact (domain-specific); Ngo comment = winning whack-a-mole doesn't discredit forward-chaining approaches; excessive backchaining bias in alignment; electricity/Galileo analogies; forward-chaining justified by feedback+understanding, not pre-specified theory
• Pages created: sources/against-almost-every-theory-of-impact-of-interpretability (upgraded from stub), concepts/forward-chaining-vs-backchaining
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | #define CTO OpenAI — Greg Brockman

• Teachable units: find problem > role; social story enabled technical; engineering as research bottleneck (Gym + Universe examples); soft/hard launch date pattern; block time for deep work (one meeting kills half-day); role emerges from what you can uniquely contribute
• Pages created: sources/define-cto-openai-greg-brockman (upgraded from stub)
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | #define CTO — Greg Brockman

• Teachable units: CTO role discovery (most are facilitators not chief architects); product vs infrastructure tractability asymmetry; feedback loop problem post-delegation (4 mechanisms); energy management (recharging activities enable high-leverage work); delegation full or none (sparse micromanagement is worst)
• Pages created: sources/define-cto-greg-brockman (upgraded from stub), concepts/energy-management, concepts/role-discovery
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | How I select alignment research projects — Ethan Perez

• Teachable units: top-down vs bottom-up (and mixing); empirical prototyping before committing; 2-page doc + share early; red flags (loop>1d, fixed cost>1mo, "wouldn't matter even if successful"); switching = know your alternatives; juniors don't split projects; bottom-up underrated in alignment
• Pages created: sources/how-i-select-alignment-research-projects-ethan-perez (upgraded from stub), concepts/bottom-up-research
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Categories of leadership on technical teams — Ben Kuhn

• Teachable units: four categories (direction, people management, project management, technical leadership); why split them (unicorn hunt); four real-world split examples (TLM, EM/TL, PM/TL, people-manager/research-lead); best PM ≠ strongest IC; technical leadership requires IC time for feedback loops
• Pages created: sources/categories-of-leadership-on-technical-teams-ben-kuhn (upgraded from stub), concepts/categories-of-technical-leadership
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | How I've run major projects — Ben Kuhn

• Teachable units: focus (clear schedule + top idea in mind); plan for victory (concrete steps as early-warning system, not optimism); OODA loop (info processing is the bottleneck; track biggest open questions; parallelize uncertainty resolution); overcommunicate (sync > async for common knowledge); break off subprojects (delegate PM not just execution; direction > magnitude); DRI starter kit (working doc, weekly meeting, stack-ranked tasks, Slack norms, broadcast updates, retros)
• Pages created: sources/how-ive-run-major-projects-ben-kuhn (upgraded from stub), concepts/plan-for-victory, concepts/ooda-loop-for-projects
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] log entry | What We Look for in Founders — Paul Graham

• Note: source page and concept page (concepts/founder-qualities-paul-graham) were created in prior session but log entry was missing
• Status: full (pages already created; log entry added retroactively)

[2026-06-29] log entry | Impact, agency, and taste — Ben Kuhn

• Note: source page and concept page (concepts/impact-agency-and-taste) were created in prior session but log entry was missing
• Status: full (pages already created; log entry added retroactively)

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Tips for Empirical Alignment Research — Ethan Perez

• Teachable units: success criteria (70% get ideas work: impl speed 45% + get to work 25%); drive direction 20%; workflow zero-shot->...->RLHF; practical proxy/data-atlas/kb shortcuts/next expt/log power laws; papers low VoI except exceptions
• Pages created: sources/tips-for-empirical-alignment-research-ethan-perez, concepts/tips-for-empirical-alignment-research
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | The Age of the Essay - Paul Graham

• Teachable units: real vs school essays; history from classics; essayer=to try, no thesis advance; meander/river flow interesting; maximum surprise; disobedience/web golden age; observation/pay attention inappropriate
• Pages created: sources/the-age-of-the-essay-paul-graham
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Against Almost Every Theory of Impact of Interpretability

• Teachable units: original domain-specific; general principle from Ngo comment (winning whack-a-mole does not discredit forward approaches)
• Pages created: sources/against-almost-every-theory-of-impact-of-interpretability
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Shut up and do the impossible! — Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Teachable units: effort levels (tsuyoku naritai, isshokenmei, extraordinary); "shut up and do the impossible" when even that may not be enough; AI-Box example; goal = outcome not effort; fleeing tension by "I tried" or denying data
• Pages created: sources/shut-up-and-do-the-impossible-eliezer-yudkowsky, concepts/shut-up-and-do-the-impossible
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | How to Disagree — Paul Graham

• Teachable units: DH0-DH6 hierarchy (name-calling, ad hominem, tone, contradiction, counterargument, refutation, central point); pyramid structure; form vs truth; benefits for reading/writing/less meanness
• Pages created: sources/how-to-disagree-paul-graham, concepts/disagreement-hierarchy
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md, wiki/index.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Keep Your Identity Small — Paul Graham

• Teachable units: identity engagement turns discussions useless (politics/religion/programming); fruitful discussion only when no identity stake; minimize labels ("let as few things into your identity as possible"); scientist as placeholder example
• Pages created: sources/keep-your-identity-small-paul-graham, concepts/keep-your-identity-small
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | How I've run major projects — Ben Kuhn

• Teachable units: scoping, delegation, communication, tracking, course correction
• Pages created: sources/how-ive-run-major-projects-ben-kuhn
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Categories of leadership on technical teams — Ben Kuhn

• Teachable units: modes/roles of leadership; spiky skills contribution
• Pages created: sources/categories-of-leadership-on-technical-teams-ben-kuhn
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Tips for Empirical Alignment Research — Ethan Perez

• Teachable units: success criteria (70% get ideas work quick etc.); workflow; practical tips; papers low VoI
• Pages created: sources/tips-for-empirical-alignment-research-ethan-perez, concepts/tips-for-empirical-alignment-research
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | How I select alignment research projects — Ethan Perez with Mikita Balesni and Henry Sleight

• Teachable units: project selection framework; generalizes
• Pages created: sources/how-i-select-alignment-research-projects-ethan-perez
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | #define CTO OpenAI — Greg Brockman

• Teachable units: role evolution at OpenAI; spiky skills
• Pages created: sources/define-cto-openai-greg-brockman
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | #define CTO — Greg Brockman

• Teachable units: defining CTO role spiky; iterative scope
• Pages created: sources/define-cto-greg-brockman
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Accountability Sinks — Martin Sustrik

• Teachable units: processes that diffuse responsibility so no one can stop or be blamed for bad outcomes; front-line "formally correct"; examples (squirrels, airline, credit names)
• Pages created: sources/accountability-sinks-martin-sustrik, concepts/accountability-sinks
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | How to be more agentic — Cate Hall

• Teachable units: agency as learnable skill; court rejection; real anonymous feedback; surface area for luck; assume learnable; moat of low status; don't grind to burnout
• Pages created: sources/how-to-be-more-agentic-cate-hall, concepts/how-to-be-more-agentic
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Do Things that Don't Scale — Paul Graham

• Teachable units: manual user recruitment + compound growth; early fragility; delight with incomplete product; Collison installation, Airbnb manual, Wufoo notes, "insanely great" experience
• Pages created: sources/do-things-that-dont-scale-paul-graham, concepts/do-things-that-dont-scale
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Relentlessly Resourceful — Paul Graham

• Teachable units: relentlessly resourceful (vs hapless, vs pure relentless); novel obstacles require new attempts; teachability especially for young; upper bound on founders pool; self/cofounder test; tactical reminder
• Pages created: sources/relentlessly-resourceful-paul-graham, concepts/relentlessly-resourceful
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Be impatient — Ben Kuhn

• Teachable units: calendar-time optimization as productive impatience; email/startup/perf/tooling/typing/hiring evidence; good vs bad distinction; speed changes behavior and strategy
• Pages created: sources/be-impatient-ben-kuhn, concepts/be-impatient
• Pages updated: wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full
• Raw 88 lines → detailed source (45+) + concept after gate

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Learning By Writing — Holden Karnofsky

• Teachable units: writing-first learning loop; always-have-a-hypothesis discipline; 8-step write-critique-revise cycle; premature bold hypotheses; subquestion selection; active side flipping; focused vs exhaustive reading
• Pages created: sources/learning-by-writing-holden-karnofsky, concepts/learning-by-writing
• Pages updated: concepts/decision-quality-vs-outcome, wiki/index.md, wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-29] ingest (full) | Humans are not automatically strategic — Anna Salamon

• Teachable units: default ineffectiveness of goal pursuit; weak goal representations; explicit 8 non-automatic strategic heuristics (a-h); verbal vs automatic systems gap; training not automatic; concrete unstrategic examples in smart people; strategic capacity as part of rationality
• Pages created: sources/humans-are-not-automatically-strategic-anna-salamon, concepts/humans-are-not-automatically-strategic
• Pages updated: concepts/decision-quality-vs-outcome, wiki/index.md, wiki/log.md, wiki/ingest-audit.md
• Status: full
• Proving pages survived raw-vs-wiki (24 raw lines fully represented in 41-line source + 37-line concept + integration link)

[2026-06-29] ingest (partial) | A reading list for generalists — Dylan Bowman

• Source summary created for the organizing document of a high-signal cluster of 18 essays/posts on generalist practice.
• Added to index and linked from overview (breadth vs depth section).
• Teachable units identified (see ingest-audit). Most recommended documents have raw files already present but await individual ingest.
• Status: partial (meta source done; cluster of linked pieces pending one-by-one)
• Pages created: sources/a-reading-list-for-generalists-dylan-bowman
• Pages updated: wiki/index.md, wiki/overview.md

[2026-06-28] ingest | Building a Life — Howard H. Stevenson

• Teachable units: four dimensions of success (Achievement/Significance/Happiness/Legacy), success as juggling (rubber vs glass balls, falling ball), sense of enough (dimensionality + time frame), spiral of life, wince factor (vs regret), personal board of directors, inflection points as gifts, live life forward, sequential success fallacy, three great fears, positive vs negative drivers, happiness = me/now vs legacy = others/future, regret as process (don't cheat at solitaire), explicit about the bets, social comparison trap in achievement, follow your passion critique, start at the end (obituary test), juice worth the squeeze, ripple not splash
• Pages created: sources/building-a-life-howard-stevenson, entities/Howard-Stevenson, concepts/four-dimensions-of-success, concepts/success-as-juggling, concepts/sense-of-enough, concepts/spiral-of-life, concepts/wince-factor, concepts/personal-board-of-directors, concepts/inflection-points, concepts/live-life-forward
• Pages updated: concepts/happiness-as-skill, concepts/match-quality, concepts/decision-quality-vs-outcome, wiki/index.md
• Status: full

[2026-06-28] audit | Pass 1 + Pass 2 — 667 pages

• 2 broken links fixed (activation-energy, rational-actor pages created)
• 5 orphan pages resolved via backlinks
• 1 source island fixed (six-easy-pieces-feynman: 18 concept links added)
• 2 self-referencing Sources sections fixed
• lint-wiki.js weak-tag false-positive fixed (weak-ties substring match)
• Pages created: 2, pages updated: 7

[2026-06-26T19:38:12+07:00] gate | Game Theory 1: The Dating Game — re-verification

• Mechanical gate: gates/game-theory.txt PASS (563 raw MATCH b3683db tree; raw immutability confirmed)
• MCP gate: gates/game-theory-mcp.txt (game-theory cluster confirmed)
• Status: full

[2026-06-26T19:37:41+07:00] gate | Who Are You, Really? — Brian Little

• Mechanical gate: gates/little.txt PASS (299 raw, proving pages phrase hits confirmed)
• MCP gate: gates/little-mcp.txt (personality cluster + match-quality integration)
• Status: full

[2026-06-26T19:37:28+07:00] gate | Telling Stories to Improve Interview Success — Dino Martinez

• Mechanical gate: gates/martinez.txt PASS (158 raw → 181 wiki source+proving)
• MCP gate: gates/martinez-mcp.txt (search cluster confirmed)
• Status: full

[2026-06-26T19:37:06+07:00] gate | Mastering the Art of the Interview — Ashley Rizzotto

• Mechanical gate: gates/rizzotto.txt PASS (63 raw → 186 wiki source+proving)
• MCP gate: gates/rizzotto-mcp.txt (search cluster confirmed)
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] reverify | Game Theory 1: The Dating Game — Professor Jiang

• Raw line count unchanged (563); existing source + concept cluster reviewed against raw; no new teachable units; status remains full
• Pages updated: ingest-audit, log
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] ingest | Who Are You, Really? — Brian Little

• Teachable units: Big Five OCEAN, three natures (biogenic/sociogenic/idiogenic), introversion-extroversion, free traits, personal projects, restorative niches, communication differences
• Pages created: sources/who-are-you-really-brian-little, entities/Brian-Little, concepts/big-five-personality, concepts/free-traits, concepts/personal-projects, concepts/three-natures-of-personality, concepts/introversion-extroversion
• Pages updated: concepts/match-quality, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] ingest | Telling Stories to Improve Interview Success — Dino Martinez

• Teachable units: interview storytelling, rolodex of experiences, research yourself/company/interviewers, STAR/CAR, present-past-future intro, behavioral format, learning layer in results, eager vs anxious
• Pages created: sources/telling-stories-to-improve-interview-success-dino-martinez, entities/Dino-Martinez, concepts/interview-storytelling, concepts/star-method, concepts/present-past-future-introduction
• Pages updated: concepts/career-strengths-identification, concepts/twenty-word-introduction, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] ingest | Mastering the Art of the Interview — Ashley Rizzotto

• Teachable units: prep before arrival, non-negotiables (inside/outside work), strengths (idealized vs actual), alignment through research, advocate or walk away, honest vs pleasing answers, offer mirroring
• Pages created: sources/mastering-the-art-of-the-interview-ashley-rizzotto, entities/Ashley-Rizzotto, concepts/interview-non-negotiables, concepts/career-strengths-identification, concepts/alignment-through-research
• Pages updated: concepts/match-quality, concepts/first-impressions, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] ingest | How to Stay Calm Under Stress — Daniel Levitin

• Teachable units: cortisol/cloudy thinking, stress impairs judgment (meta-problem), premortem/prospective hindsight, designated place system, hippocampus spatial memory, NNT, informed consent, quality-of-life pre-decisions, travel backups
• Pages created: sources/how-to-stay-calm-under-stress-daniel-levitin, entities/Daniel-Levitin, entities/Gary-Klein, concepts/stress-impairs-judgment, concepts/designated-place-system, concepts/hippocampus, concepts/number-needed-to-treat
• Pages updated: concepts/premortem, concepts/decision-quality-vs-outcome, concepts/environment-design-for-habits, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] ingest | How to Introduce Yourself — Rebecca Okamoto

• Teachable units: about-you vs about-me introduction, 20-word sound bite, five formulas (benefit/breakthrough/passion/strength/mission), first impressions, imposter reframe, "Tell me more" trigger
• Pages created: sources/how-to-introduce-yourself-rebecca-okamoto, entities/Rebecca-Okamoto, concepts/about-you-introduction, concepts/twenty-word-introduction, concepts/first-impressions
• Pages updated: concepts/halo-effect, concepts/talk-in-terms-of-interests, concepts/let-them-talk, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-26] ingest | How to Speak So That People Want to Listen — Julian Treasure

• Teachable units: seven deadly sins of speaking, HAIL framework, vocal delivery toolbox (register/timbre/pace/pitch/volume), prosody (monotone/uptalk), sodcasting, vocal warmup (6 exercises), conscious listening vision
• Pages created: sources/how-to-speak-so-people-want-to-listen-julian-treasure, entities/Julian-Treasure, concepts/seven-deadly-sins-of-speaking, concepts/hail-framework, concepts/prosody, concepts/vocal-delivery-toolbox, concepts/sodcasting, concepts/vocal-warmup
• Pages updated: concepts/active-listening, concepts/empathy, concepts/spoken-vs-written-language, sources/whats-the-best-way-to-give-a-presentation, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-25] ingest | Game Theory 1: The Dating Game — Professor Jiang

• Teachable units: game-theory framework (players/rules/incentives), Nash Equilibrium, status as the real driver, superstructure (three historical archetypes), dating game as civilizational endgame, fertility decline as civilizational signal, zero-sum vs non-zero-sum
• Pages created: sources/game-theory-1-the-dating-game, concepts/game-theory, concepts/nash-equilibrium, concepts/status-as-driver
• Pages updated: concepts/stag-hunt-coordination, concepts/minimax-strategy, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-25] ingest | Six Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman

• Teachable units: atomic hypothesis, heat as atomic motion, states of matter, dynamic equilibrium, Brownian motion, experiment as sole judge, laws as approximations, physics as chess, electromagnetic spectrum, four fundamental forces, uncertainty principle, particle zoo, enzyme catalysis, DNA double helix, stellar nucleosynthesis, conservation of energy, symmetry and conservation laws, E = mc², available energy, universal gravitation, Kepler's laws, Galilean inertia, equivalence principle, gravity has no mechanism, general relativity and gravity, gravitational constant, wave-particle duality, double-slit experiment, probability amplitudes, observation destroys interference, quantum probabilism
• Pages created: sources/six-easy-pieces-feynman, entities/Richard-Feynman, concepts/atomic-hypothesis, concepts/heat-as-atomic-motion, concepts/states-of-matter, concepts/dynamic-equilibrium, concepts/brownian-motion, concepts/experiment-as-sole-judge, concepts/laws-as-approximations, concepts/physics-as-chess, concepts/electromagnetic-spectrum, concepts/four-fundamental-forces, concepts/uncertainty-principle, concepts/particle-zoo, concepts/enzyme-catalysis, concepts/dna-double-helix, concepts/stellar-nucleosynthesis, concepts/conservation-of-energy, concepts/symmetry-conservation-laws, concepts/e-equals-mc-squared, concepts/available-energy, concepts/universal-gravitation, concepts/keplers-laws, concepts/galilean-inertia, concepts/equivalence-principle, concepts/gravity-has-no-mechanism, concepts/general-relativity-gravity, concepts/gravitational-constant, concepts/wave-particle-duality, concepts/double-slit-experiment, concepts/probability-amplitudes, concepts/observation-destroys-interference, concepts/quantum-probabilism
• Pages updated: index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-24] manual | Naval Ravikant diagrams extracted and integrated

• Reviewed 137 candidate pages from vector extraction; identified 12 real content diagrams
• Deleted 52 bad raster images from first extraction (QR codes, title fragments)
• Pages updated: concepts/permissionless-leverage (3 diagrams), concepts/happiness-as-skill (2 diagrams), concepts/specific-knowledge (2 diagrams), sources/the-almanack-of-naval-ravikant (5 diagrams)

[2026-06-24] ingest | Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

• Teachable units: three psychological phases, delusion of reprieve, apathy as protection, last freedom, inner spiritual life as protection, will to meaning as survival driver, Nietzsche's why/how, love as the ultimate, "having been" as permanence, meaning in suffering, humor as survival, post-liberation psychology, two races of men, logotherapy, will to meaning vs Freud/Adler, existential frustration, noögenic neuroses, existential vacuum, noö-dynamics, three avenues to meaning, self-transcendence, responsibleness, paradoxical intention, hyper-intention/hyper-reflection, pan-determinism critique, tragic optimism, tragic triad, grieving doctor, tragic optimism postscript
• Pages created: sources/mans-search-for-meaning, entities/Viktor-Frankl, concepts/logotherapy, concepts/will-to-meaning, concepts/existential-vacuum, concepts/meaning-in-suffering, concepts/last-freedom, concepts/paradoxical-intention, concepts/tragic-optimism, concepts/self-transcendence
• Pages updated: concepts/grit, concepts/growth-mindset, concepts/stoic-resilience, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-24] ingest | The Math of Winning in Trading — Mulham Trading

• Teachable units: expectancy formula, paper vs real expectancy, system design tradeoff, breakeven win rate, variance + quitting early, gambler's fallacy, position sizing mechanics, risk of ruin, loss asymmetry
• Pages created: sources/the-math-of-winning-in-trading, concepts/expectancy, concepts/risk-of-ruin, concepts/gamblers-fallacy
• Pages updated: concepts/probabilistic-trading-mindset, concepts/position-sizing, concepts/risk-reward-ratio, index, log, ingest-audit
• Status: full

[2026-06-24] ingest | How to Fix a Broken Heart — Guy Winch

• Teachable units: heartbreak-as-addiction, idealization trap, misplaced closure-seeking, void inventory, cognitive impairment, recovery-as-fight
• Pages created: sources/how-to-fix-a-broken-heart-guy-winch, concepts/heartbreak, entities/Guy-Winch
• Pages updated: concepts/empathy (heartbreak connection), index, log
• Status: full

[2026-06-24] ingest | Is the Cure for Loneliness Hiding in Your Closet? — Mollie Kaye

• Teachable units: social isolation epidemic, weak ties health benefit, Hello Zone, belonging vs. blending, visibility paradox, behavioral commitment
• Pages created: sources/is-the-cure-for-loneliness-hiding-in-your-closet, concepts/loneliness
• Pages updated: index, log
• Status: full

[2026-06-24] audit | Pass 1 + Pass 2 — 544 pages

• Broken links: 1 fixed (Emmanuel Kimmel unlinked in fortunes-formula)
• Injected boilerplate removed from 9 concept pages; weak tags cleared
• 2 Python source islands resolved (added Related sections)
• 1 remaining weak: concepts/delta-vs-level (intentionally thin)
• Pages updated: 12

[2026-06-18] ingest | Kelly criterion cluster — Thorp 2006, Understanding Kelly, Fortune's Formula

• Full read of 3 sources; 3 source pages, 4 entities; kelly-criterion upgraded to 6-source primary-backed concept
• Pages created: 7 (3 sources, 4 entities)
• Pages updated: 8 (kelly-criterion, position-sizing, ergodicity, how-to-get-rich, the-jackpot-age, naval-ravikant, beginner-trader-investor-learning-path, index)
• Status: full

[2026-06-18] maintenance | Housekeeping + synthesis revision

• Deleted raw extraction helpers (_*_extracted.txt), duplicate Carnegie PDF, desktop.ini
• Revised beginner-trader-investor-learning-path (Douglas Stage 1b, sample curriculum; cleared needs-review)
• Revised uncertainty-market-judgment-operating-model (Kahneman + Douglas lenses; cleared needs-review)

[2026-06-18] ingest | Trading in the Zone — Mark Douglas

• Full EPUB read (11 chapters + foreword/preface); 4 concept pages, source summary, 1 entity; integration pass on trading-psychology cluster
• Pages created: 6 (1 source, 1 entity, 4 concepts)
• Pages updated: 7 (trading-psychology, trading-edge, decision-quality-vs-outcome, probability-blindness, position-sizing, fundamental-vs-technical-analysis, beginner-trader-investor-learning-path)
• Status: full

[2026-06-18] concept | trading-technical-indicator

• Umbrella page for CFI indicator primers: ADX, MACD, TRIN, triangles, pin bars; linked from source + TA cluster

[2026-06-18] ingest | The Complete Guide to Trading — CFI

• Full PDF read (116 pages, 3 parts); 6 new concept pages, source summary; integration pass on trading cluster
• Pages created: 7 (1 source, 6 concepts)
• Pages updated: 4 (trading-psychology, value-vs-growth-investing, trading-edge, position-sizing)
• Synthesis flagged: beginner-trader-investor-learning-path (CFI added to sources)
• Status: full

[2026-06-18] manual | Raw housekeeping — (ingested) renames + VCS cleanup

• Renamed 36 full-ingest raw sources to (ingested) suffix (incl. Kahneman, Range, Polymath epubs)
• Removed duplicate Talking_to_My_Daughter_About_the_Economy.epub (ingested copy kept)
• Untracked desktop.ini and workspace.json; expanded .gitignore for OS junk, _extracted.txt, mcps/
• Left pending: The-Complete-Guide-to-Trading.pdf, duplicate Carnegie PDF, extraction helpers

[2026-06-18] ingest | Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

• Full EPUB read (5 parts, 48 chapters); 15 new concept pages, source summary, 2 entities; integration pass via MCP search + cross-links to Munger/Taleb/Range/Epstein cluster
• Pages created: 18 (1 source, 2 entities, 15 concepts)
• Pages updated: 8 (system-1-vs-system-2, inside-view-outside-view, probability-blindness, decision-quality-vs-outcome, kind-vs-wicked-learning-environments, deliberate-practice, psychology-of-human-misjudgment, critical-thinking-and-logical-fallacies needs-review)
• Status: full

[2026-06-18] ingest | Range: Why Generalists Triumph — David Epstein

• Full EPUB read (intro + 12 chapters + conclusion); 13 new concept pages, source summary, 2 entities; integration pass via MCP search/find_related
• Pages created: 16 (1 source, 2 entities, 13 concepts)
• Pages updated: 10 (polymath, specialization, deliberate-practice, grit, t-shaped-developer, man-with-a-hammer-syndrome, chunking, spaced-repetition, einstellung-effect, Isaiah-Berlin)
• Lint: Pass 1 clean on broken links/orphans; removed weak from deliberate-practice
• Status: full

[2026-06-18] ingest | The Polymath — Peter Burke

• 353-page PDF read in full; cultural history of 500 Western polymaths 1400–2000; five ages
• Pages created: sources/the-polymath-peter-burke, concepts/polymath, concepts/specialization, concepts/information-overload, concepts/pansophia, concepts/interdisciplinarity, entities/Peter-Burke, entities/Leonardo-da-Vinci, entities/Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz, entities/Isaiah-Berlin, entities/Jan-Amos-Comenius, entities/Susan-Sontag
• Pages updated: concepts/t-shaped-developer (polymath bridge), concepts/specific-knowledge (skill-stack as mini-polymath), entities/charles-munger (clustered polymath framing), concepts/mental-models-latticework (polymath link), concepts/man-with-a-hammer-syndrome (hedgehog failure mode link)
• MCP integration pass: confirmed cross-links to mental-models-latticework and man-with-a-hammer-syndrome
• Status: full

[2026-06-16] ingest | How to Get Rich — Naval Ravikant

• Primary source for Naval's tweet storm (~3.5hr transcript); goes deeper than the Almanack on luck taxonomy, builder/seller, network effects, principal-agent, and ethics
• Pages created: sources/how-to-get-rich, concepts/four-types-of-luck, concepts/network-effects, concepts/learn-to-sell-learn-to-build
• Pages updated: entities/naval-ravikant (rewritten, 2 sources), concepts/specific-knowledge (weak tag removed, 4 sources), concepts/permissionless-leverage (weak tag removed, 3 sources), synthesis/my-specific-knowledge-map (Naval loop deepened), index (1 source + 4 concepts)
• Status: full

[2026-06-15] ingest | Cara Gue Masuk Apple Developer Academy — Theo (@theodevoid)

• ADA Indonesia Kohort 7 alumni live session; selection process, portfolio philosophy, FGD tips, T-shaped developer target
• Pages created: sources/cara-gue-masuk-apple-developer-academy, entities/Apple-Developer-Academy-Indonesia, concepts/t-shaped-developer, concepts/thinking-out-loud
• Pages updated: concepts/design-thinking (ADA 80% DT ratio), concepts/empathy (FGD group dynamics), synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-design-and-creativity (FGD + portfolio), synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-learning-and-thinking (T-shaped developer section)
• Status: full; no site push (ingest for MCP discussion only)

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 4 (Complete; All 30 Principles)

• Read Part 4 Ch 1–9 (all 9 principles): "Be a Leader — How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment"
• Pages created: concepts/begin-with-praise, concepts/indirect-criticism, concepts/own-mistakes-first, concepts/ask-instead-of-order, concepts/let-save-face, concepts/praise-every-improvement, concepts/give-fine-reputation, concepts/make-fault-seem-easy, concepts/make-them-glad
• Pages updated: sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (status → full, Part 4 complete), index (9 new entries)
• Completeness gate passed: all 30 principles read and integrated

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 3 Ch 9–12

• Read Part 3 Ch 9–12 (pp. 165–184): Principles 9–12 of Part 3 (overall Principles 18–21); Part 3 now complete
• Pages created: concepts/offer-sympathy, concepts/appeal-nobler-motives, concepts/dramatize-your-ideas, concepts/throw-down-challenge
• Pages updated: sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (Part 3 fully complete), index (4 new entries)
• Audit: partial — Part 4 not yet read; completeness gate not yet passed

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 3 Ch 5–8

• Read Part 3 Ch 5–8 (pp. 145–164): Principles 5–8 of Part 3 (overall Principles 14–17)
• Pages created: concepts/yes-yes-technique, concepts/let-them-talk, concepts/let-them-feel-its-their-idea, concepts/see-their-point-of-view
• Pages updated: sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (added Part 3 Principles 5–8), index (4 new entries)
• Audit: partial — Part 3 Ch 9–12 and Part 4 not yet read

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 3 Ch 1–4

• Read Part 3 Ch 1–4 (pp. 105–144): Principles 1–4 of Part 3 (overall Principles 10–13)
• Pages created: concepts/avoid-argument, concepts/never-say-youre-wrong, concepts/admit-mistakes, concepts/begin-friendly
• Pages updated: sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (added Part 3 Principles 1–4), index (4 new entries)
• Audit: partial — Part 3 Ch 5–12 and Part 4 not yet read

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 2 Ch 3–6

• Read Part 2 Ch 3–6 (pp. 85–104): Principles 6–9, names/listening/interests/importance
• Pages created: concepts/remembering-names, concepts/active-listening, concepts/talk-in-terms-of-interests, concepts/make-others-feel-important
• Pages updated: sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (Part 2 complete)
• Index updated with 4 new concept entries
• Audit: Parts 1–2 complete, Parts 3–4 pending

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 2 Ch 1–2

• Read Part 2 Ch 1–2 (pp. 65–84): Principles 4–5, genuine interest + smile
• Pages created: concepts/genuine-interest-in-others, concepts/smile
• Pages updated: sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (added Part 2 Ch 1–2 content)
• Index updated with 2 new concept entries
• Audit: partial — Part 2 Ch 3–6 and Parts 3–4 not yet read

[2026-06-13] ingest | How to Win Friends and Influence People — Part 1 (partial)

• Read preface + Part 1 (pp. 1–65): 3 chapters, 3 principles, full Carnegie argument from sources
• Pages created: concepts/desire-to-feel-important
• Pages updated: concepts/criticism-is-futile (stub → full), concepts/give-honest-and-sincere-appreciation (stub → full), concepts/arouse-an-eager-want (stub → full), sources/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (stub → structured partial), entities/dale-carnegie (stub → full)
• Cross-links: concepts/four-laws-of-behavior-change now bridges to criticism-is-futile (Skinner); all 4 Carnegie concepts now linked to each other and to source/entity
• Pages created: 1 (desire-to-feel-important), pages updated: 6
• Audit: partial — Parts 2–4 (27 remaining principles) not yet read

[2026-06-11] rewrite | GCR Trade Review — full 119-page pass

• Prior partial ingest (only 5 pages read) fully replaced after reading all 119 pages
• gcr-trade-review source page: complete rewrite covering 9 thematic sections; ~220 lines (was ~57)
• GCR entity page: complete rewrite; origin story ($1000 start), 15+ key trades, political prediction markets, full philosophy distilled; ~190 lines (was ~85)
• trading-edge concept: 8 new mechanism entries added (exchange listing wick arb, announcement-of-announcement, low unit bias, systematic catalyst fade, pair trades, market maker distribution tell, efficient yield hypothesis, operationalize-one-edge principle)
• ingest-audit: status updated to full for both raw files
• Audit: full — all 119 PDF pages and the Arkham profile absorbed

[2026-06-11] ingest | GCR Trade Review + Gigantic Rebirth: Top Crypto Traders (2026)

• Two GCR sources ingested together: annotated trade PDF (4 trades: CREAM, DOGE, BTC, SUSHI) + Arkham full career profile
• Pages created: entities/GCR, entities/George-Soros, entities/Do-Kwon, sources/gcr-trade-review, sources/gigantic-rebirth-top-crypto-traders
• Pages updated: concepts/trading-edge (GCR crypto edge framework section), concepts/reflexivity (contrarianism as reflexivity trigger section + new sources)
• Audit: partial — synthesis scan pending, market-manipulation modern parallels not updated yet (superseded by rewrite pass above)

[2026-06-11] synthesis | Apple Developer Academy Prep — Design and Creativity

• Section 4 synthesis covering 4.1 Creative Thinking, 4.2 Empathy, 4.3 Observing What Works, 4.4 Iteration & Openness to Feedback
• Thesis: all four subsections are expressions of one capacity — staying open long enough to understand the problem before proposing a solution
• Cross-source connections: fear as common enemy (Robinson/Kelley/Brown/Klein/Norman), Norman's positive affect = Kounios' insightful mode = Juravich's awareness state, Dix's local maxima warning applied to empathy, Kelley's guided mastery = iterative development applied to the self
• Pages created: synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-design-and-creativity
• Pages updated: index.md

[2026-06-11] ingest | What is Iterative Development? (IxDF)

• Source: IxDF topic page with expert video commentary (Klein, Dix, Spillers, Hudson, Peng, Warfel)
• Pages created: sources/what-is-iterative-development, concepts/iterative-development, concepts/local-maxima, entities/alan-dix, entities/laura-klein
• Pages updated: concepts/design-thinking (iterative-development link), concepts/kaizen (iterative-development link), sources/proxima-centauri (local-maxima link)
• Images: 4 qualifying diagrams moved to raw/assets/iterative-development/ and public/assets/; 2 decorative excluded
• Index: added source, 2 entities, 2 concepts; fixed theresa-wiseman duplicate entry

[2026-06-11] repair | Design cluster (emotional-design + eye-for-design rewrites)

• emotional-design.md: distilled from transcript into mechanism-focused concept (three levels + affect link); tight examples only; moved source-specific quotes to source page.
• three-ways-good-design-makes-you-happy-don-norman.md: cleaned transcript into proper source summary; removed artifacts (e.g. "the new him"); organized by talk structure in coherent prose.
• eye-for-design.md: rebuilt as tight concept around the core teachable unit (taste trained by observation + reflective practice); folded lightweight blog advice; no longer a summary island mirroring source.
• develop-an-eye-for-good-visual-design.md: treated as lightweight source; no dedicated heavyweight concept created (per feedback); key practice idea integrated into eye-for-design.
• design-thinking.md updated with cross-link to the rebuilt eye-for-design.
• All pages now use required structure (## headers on concepts), filled tags, and prose wikilinks.
• Bookkeeping updated with repair block.

[2026-06-11] repair | Empathy cluster structure (headers, links, tags)

• Added first-mention wikilinks across concept and both source pages per CLAUDE.md rule.
• Filled meaningful tags on all five pages for Dataview visibility.
• Created theresa-wiseman (framework origin, parallel to Bandura in creativity cluster).
• Created sympathy (the structured contrast using hole metaphor and "at least" responses).
• Polished Brown source page prose to reduce bullet density while preserving transcript structure and adding integration pointer.
• Updated design-thinking tags.
• No new synthesis flags beyond prior pass.

[2026-06-11] ingest | Brené Brown on Empathy + Jonathan Juravich (empathy definition + practice)

• Ingested 2 sources: the RSA Animate transcript on empathy vs sympathy (four qualities, hole metaphor, vulnerable choice, "at least" trap) and Juravich's TED-Ed talk on awareness as root + concrete classroom/family practices
• Pages created: sources/brene-brown-on-empathy, sources/how-do-you-teach-empathy-jonathan-juravich, concepts/empathy, entities/brene-brown, entities/jonathan-juravich
• Pages updated: concepts/design-thinking (Empathize stage expanded with the four qualities, hole image, awareness definition, and action examples; two new sources added)
• Pages created: 5. Pages updated: 1.
• Ingest complete. The two raws were the exact material behind the earlier "4.2 Empathy" note; real transcripts now supply the durable versions.

[2026-06-11] ingest | Creative Thinking (4 sources: Kelley, APA/Weir, Robinson, Kounios)

• Ingested 4 sources: How to Build Your Creative Confidence, The Science Behind Creativity, Do Schools Kill Creativity?, Creativity Insight and Eureka Moments
• Pages created: sources/how-to-build-your-creative-confidence, sources/the-science-behind-creativity, sources/do-schools-kill-creativity, sources/creativity-insight-and-eureka-moments, concepts/creativity, concepts/creative-confidence, concepts/divergent-thinking, concepts/insight-vs-analytical-thinking, entities/david-kelley, entities/ken-robinson, entities/john-kounios
• Pages updated: concepts/focused-vs-diffuse-thinking (major upgrade + weak tag removed), concepts/growth-mindset, concepts/learning-from-failure, concepts/fixed-mindset, wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 11. Pages updated: 5.

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (complete — Ch 23 tail + Ch 24 + appendix + PTJ afterword)

• Read Ch 23 tail (pp. 384–388): New Haven Railroad case study (insider selling masked as bear raids), Charles Woerishoffer bear operator annotation, Livermore's 4th bankruptcy (1934, $2.25M liabilities / $184K assets)
• Read Ch 24 (pp. 389–393): broker market letters, broker distribution network (calls/puts structure), legal asymmetry (bear lies punished, bull lies free), Trojan horse / partial payment plan, price action as self-explanatory, market cannot be beaten consistently
• Read appendix (DJIA 1895–1929 chart) and Paul Tudor Jones afterword (pp. 399–403)
• Pages created: entities/Charles-Woerishoffer, entities/Paul-Tudor-Jones
• Pages updated: entities/Edwin-Lefevre (full biography expanded), concepts/market-manipulation (3 new sections: New Haven case, broker distribution network, legal asymmetry), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Part XVI + status → complete + new entities), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 2. Pages updated: 5.
• Ingest now complete. Next: synthesis scan (Task #7) + sync/commit/push/re-index (Task #8)

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 22-conclusion + Ch 23 addition)

• Read Ch 22 conclusion + Ch 23 (book pp. 364–383): zero-inventory distribution (Consolidated Stove finale), tip cascade + innocent third parties, insider accumulation/distribution cycle, J.P. Morgan full profile
• Pages created: entities/JP-Morgan
• Pages updated: concepts/market-manipulation (3 new sections: zero-inventory distribution, tip cascade, insider accumulation/distribution cycle), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Part XV), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 1. Pages updated: 4.
• Next: continue reading Ch 24+

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 21-tail + Ch 22 addition)

• Read Ch 21 tail + Ch 22 (book pp. 344–363): manipulation ethics + investor/speculator distinction, boom psychology, Consolidated Stove case study (two capital blunders, floor intelligence marketing), Governor Roswell Pettibone Flower
• Pages created: concepts/boom-psychology, entities/Roswell-Pettibone-Flower
• Pages updated: concepts/market-manipulation (3 new sections: legitimacy line, Consolidated Stove blunders, floor intelligence marketing), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Part XIV + Key Entities/Concepts), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 2. Pages updated: 4.
• Next: continue reading Ch 23+

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 20-tail + Ch 21 addition)

• Read Ch 20 tail + Ch 21 (book pp. 324–343): operator deal structure, clearing overhang, bull flurries, only-buyer signal, Pete Products case, Piggly Wiggly corner
• Pages created: none
• Pages updated: concepts/market-manipulation (5 new sections: deal structure, overhang clearing, bull flurries, only-buyer signal, sell-on-the-way-down), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Part XIII), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 0. Pages updated: 3.
• Next: continue reading Ch 22+

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 19-tail + Ch 20 addition)

• Read Ch 19 tail + Ch 20 (book pp. 304–323): Addison G. Jerome, Henry Keep, locking-up-greenbacks tactic, James R. Keene profile + manipulation theory
• Pages created: entities/Henry-Keep, entities/Addison-G-Jerome
• Pages updated: entities/James-R-Keene (full Ch 20 expansion: career arc, U.S. Steel, Amalgamated Copper, character), concepts/market-manipulation (locking-up-greenbacks, tape-as-advertising, marketability, orderly retreat, strategy vs tactics), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Part XII + Key Entities updated), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 2. Pages updated: 4.
• Next: continue reading Ch 21+

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 18–19 addition)

• Read Chapters 18–19 (book pp. 287–303) covering Tropical Trading squeeze + historical corners
• Pages created: entities/Daniel-Drew, entities/Jacob-Little
• Pages updated: concepts/market-manipulation (squeeze mechanics, counter-manipulation, proxy selling, corners, Havemeyer sequence), concepts/trading-psychology (Watts courage quote), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Ch 18-19 sections), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 2. Pages updated: 4.
• Next: continue reading Ch 20+

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 17 addition)

• Read Chapter 17 (book pp. 264–283) covering Ch 16 conclusion + Ch 17 professional attitude
• Pages created: concepts/anticipation-and-market-forecasting, concepts/group-behaviourism, entities/James-R-Keene
• Pages updated: concepts/trading-psychology (divided attention trap), concepts/tape-reading-and-order-flow (insider non-buying signal + absorption test), sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator (Ch 16 conclusion + Ch 17 section), wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 3. Pages updated: 5.
• Next: continue reading Ch 18+

[2026-06-11] ingest | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (partial, Ch 1–16)

• Read Chapters 1–16 (book pp. 1–263) across multiple sessions; full book read still in progress
• Source page created as partial ingest covering bucket shop years through WWI bull market and coffee episode
• Pages created: sources/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator, entities/Jesse-Livermore, entities/Edwin-Lefevre, entities/Mr-Partridge, entities/Percy-Thomas, entities/Addison-Cammack, entities/Bernard-Baruch, concepts/sitting-tight, concepts/line-of-least-resistance, concepts/trading-psychology, concepts/pyramiding, concepts/market-manipulation, concepts/speculation-vs-gambling
• Pages updated: concepts/tape-reading-and-order-flow, concepts/trading-edge, wiki/index.md
• Pages created: 13. Pages updated: 3.
• Next: continue reading Ch 17+ then write again before final integration pass

[2026-06-10] ingest | Art of Trading — Light, Su Zhu, and Hasu

• Full reingest of 577-line podcast transcript (Uncommon Core, ~Oct 2020)
• Source page rewritten from 28 lines to comprehensive coverage of both halves (trading process + Bitcoin macro)
• Historical outcome section added: BTC ATH call correct, ETH bear call wrong in short run, 3AC collapse 2022 as cautionary coda
• Pages created: concepts/reflexivity, concepts/lindy-effect, entities/light-crypto, entities/su-zhu, entities/hasu
• Pages updated: sources/art-of-trading-with-light-su-zhu-and-hasu, concepts/tape-reading-and-order-flow, concepts/decision-quality-vs-outcome, concepts/position-sizing, concepts/shelling-point
• Synthesis tagged needs-review: synthesis/beginner-trader-investor-learning-path
• Pages created: 5. Pages updated: 6.

[2026-06-09] synthesis | ADA Prep — Computational Thinking

• Created synthesis covering ADA CT curriculum (3.1–3.6) plus Evaluation as closing loop
• 6-step ADA prep drill; BBC images embedded; cross-links to all three existing ADA syntheses
• Pages created: 1 synthesis. Pages updated: index, ingest-audit, log, concepts/computational-thinking, synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-learning-and-thinking

[2026-06-09] ingest | Conditional Logic trio (Khan Academy)

• Ingested 3 Khan Academy LSAT prep articles on conditional logic
• Expanded concepts/sufficient-and-necessary-conditions with: "if" vs "only if" contrast, 14 translation pattern table, AND↔OR flip rule for multi-term contrapositives, converse/inverse/contrapositive named
• Pages created: 3 source pages. Pages updated: concepts/sufficient-and-necessary-conditions, index, ingest-audit, log

[2026-06-09] ingest | Abstraction (BBC Bitesize KS3)

• Ingested BBC abstraction article; added "Filtering to a Model" section to concepts/abstraction
• Images embedded: abstraction-cornerstone.png, abstraction-cat-stamp.png, pattern-recognition-cats-comparison.png (shared)
• Pages created: 1 source page. Pages updated: concepts/abstraction (sources count 3), index

[2026-06-09] ingest | Computational Thinking intro (BBC Bitesize KS3)

• Ingested BBC CT intro article; added CT vs programming distinction and worked examples
• Images embedded: ct-intro-cornerstones.png, ct-intro-videogame.png
• Pages created: 1 source page. Pages updated: concepts/computational-thinking (sources count 3), index

[2026-06-09] ingest | Evaluation (BBC Bitesize KS3)

• Ingested BBC evaluation article; new concept page (evaluation); bidirectional link with algorithm concept
• Images embedded: evaluation-developer, ingredients-decomp, equipment-decomp, inefficient-algorithm, efficient-algorithm (decorative photos excluded)
• Pages created: concepts/evaluation, 1 source page. Pages updated: concepts/algorithm (added dry-run link), index

[2026-06-09] manual | Image embedding pass — BBC CT cluster

• Downloaded all BBC educational diagram images for decomposition, pattern-recognition, CT intro, abstraction, evaluation sources
• Embedded images in source pages; removed 7 Sphero stock photos and 2 evaluation decorative JPEG photos from public/assets
• Previous algorithm audit entry corrected: BBC images were downloaded and embedded; Mermaid fallbacks removed

[2026-06-09] ingest | Algorithm (BBC Bitesize KS3 + Sphero)

• Ingested What is an algorithm - Algorithms - KS3 Computer Science Revision.md (BBC) and 6 Examples of Algorithms In Everyday Life.md (Sphero)
• BBC flowchart shapes table and name/age flowchart (both CDN images) recreated as markdown table + Mermaid diagram; shape names include Indonesian equivalents
• Pages created: 3 (concepts/algorithm, 2 source pages). Pages updated: 4 (computational-thinking, index, ingest-audit, log)

[2026-06-09] ingest | If X, Then Y: Sufficiency and Necessity (Khan Academy)

• Ingested If X, then Y Sufficiency and necessity - Khan Academy.md (9.6K)
• Pages created: 2 (concepts/sufficient-and-necessary-conditions, source page). Pages updated: 3 (deductive-reasoning, index, ingest-audit)

[2026-06-09] ingest | Pattern Recognition (QCAA video + BBC Bitesize KS3)

• Ingested Pattern Recognition.md (QCAA video transcript + 5 slides) and What is pattern recognition - Pattern recognition - KS3 Computer Science Revision.md (BBC Bitesize, 5.2K)
• Images: moved 5 PNGs from wiki/concepts/ to raw/assets/pattern-recognition/; copied to site public/assets/
• Pages created: 3 (concepts/pattern-recognition, 2 source pages). Pages updated: 3 (computational-thinking, index, ingest-audit)

[2026-06-09] ingest | Decomposition (BBC Bitesize KS3)

• Ingested What is decomposition - Decomposition - KS3 Computer Science Revision.md (BBC Bitesize, 3.3K)
• Pages created: 2 (concepts/decomposition, sources/what-is-decomposition-bbc-bitesize). Pages updated: 3 (computational-thinking, index, ingest-audit)

[2026-06-09] ingest | Abstraction (Understanding Abstraction: Everyday Examples)

• Ingested Understanding Abstraction Everyday Examples.md (EasyTech, 8.7K)
• Pages created: 2 (concepts/abstraction, sources/understanding-abstraction-everyday-examples). Pages updated: 3 (computational-thinking, index, ingest-audit)

[2026-06-09] ingest | Computational Thinking (two sources)

• Ingested Computational Thinking.md (LTS, 32K) and Computational Thinking Tech Tip.pdf (Bowers Institute, 4pp)
• Downloaded and compressed 24 images (CT flowchart, DL/CS/CT Venn, 22 practice/concept/approach icons) into raw/assets/computational-thinking/
• Pages created: 3 (2 sources, 1 concept). Pages updated: 5 (problem-framing, design-thinking, ADA-learning synthesis, index, ingest-audit)

[2026-06-09] lint | Wiki health check and verified link repairs

• Full lint scan of 328 pages; verified absence claims before editing (most agent findings were false positives).
• Added synthesis backlink to 4 fallacy concept pages (false-analogy, circular-reasoning, slippery-slope, middle-ground) → synthesis/critical-thinking-and-logical-fallacies.
• Added [the-cost-of-staying](/note/sources/the-cost-of-staying) to Sources in concepts/skills-abstracting-upward.
• Added [critical-thinking](/note/concepts/critical-thinking) bridge to concepts/analytical-reading.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 6

[2026-06-10] manual | Digital Literacy synthesis inline-term rewrite

• Rewrote synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-digital-literacy to preserve the existing six-layer flow while explaining key terms inline instead of forcing the reader to follow links for meaning.
• Tightened the synthesis around the Academy prep thesis: digital literacy as judgment across web, search, verification, privacy, AI, and app-platform systems.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 1

[2026-06-10] ingest | Cluster 2 all-13-source evidence pass

• Re-ran Cluster 2 from the raw set with measured post-write counts and pressure-tested the weakest remaining proof pages instead of trusting the earlier repaired surface.
• Deepened the shortest search/web concept pages, created a focused synthesis on Apple-vs-Google platform governance, and upgraded Cluster 2 to full only after the raw-vs-wiki evidence supported it.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 8

[2026-06-10] manual | Cluster 2 gap fixes and Digital Literacy synthesis rewrite

• Fixed 6 confirmed raw-vs-page gaps: search operator specifics (browsing-the-web-mdn), Google Scholar peer-review limitation and library linking (google-and-other-search-engines), Google Alerts and America* truncation (effective-internet-searching), use-case comparison table (search-engines-vs-ai-assistants), Mata v. Avianca database-availability detail + chain-of-thought name + temperature ranges (when-ai-gets-it-wrong), training data quality — blogs/forums (ai-assistants concept).
• Rewrote synthesis/apple-developer-academy-prep-digital-literacy with the new specifics integrated: operator detail, Google Scholar limits, AI training data composition, Mata v. Avianca mechanism, chain-of-thought and temperature as named practical tools, platform-governance commission arc, throughline table with Practical Lever column.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 8

[2026-06-09] manual | Raw marker sync for app-store PDF

• Renamed A-Brief-History-of-Time-The-App-Stores.pdf to A-Brief-History-of-Time-The-App-Stores (ingested).pdf so the raw queue marker now matches the completed ingest state.
• Updated source and audit references to the renamed raw file; Cluster 2 still remains partial until the all-13-source evidence pass is re-run.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-09] ingest | App economy trio propagation check

• Rechecked the app-economy raw trio against the current wiki layer and repaired the specific under-carried parts: the PDF's governance arc, the Apple retrospective's concrete milestone evidence, and the infographic's commerce-structure lesson.
• Added the missing Google entity so the Apple-vs-Google coevolution in the timeline no longer points at an absent counterpart node.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 7

[2026-06-09] ingest | AI literacy trio propagation check

• Rechecked the AI-learning, search-vs-AI, and AI-failure raws against the current wiki layer and repaired the actual weak pages rather than reworking the already-healthy ML-mode concepts.
• The AI layer now carries the missing concrete cases and practical limits: Gender Shades, Stable Diffusion, Mata v. Avianca, retrieval grounding as improvement-not-cure, reproducibility, paywall limits, and task-based use of AI assistants for academic work.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 7

[2026-06-09] ingest | Privacy and security pair propagation check

• Rechecked the Greenwald privacy talk against the current privacy/security layer and repaired the one real gap: the political argument for privacy now lands as a mechanism of anti-conformity and dissent, not just a generic value claim.
• Confirmed the EFF security source remains the operational counterpart, so the cluster now holds both the civic argument and the practical defense layer together.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-09] ingest | Media verification subcluster propagation

• Rechecked the lateral-reading / filter-bubble / SIFT / circular-reporting set against the raw files and repaired the one real propagation gap: the filter-bubble raw now lands with its concrete examples and algorithmic-gatekeeper argument instead of only a generic personalization warning.
• Updated the index counts so the concept layer reflects the current source fan-out for filter-bubble, lateral-reading, and SIFT.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-09] ingest | Search effectiveness subcluster reingest

• Reingested the Google/girton search pair as one search-literacy subcluster, promoting the missing tactics into durable concept pages instead of leaving them as source-local tips.
• Added dedicated pages for search operators and Google Scholar, and deepened the search-engine and click-restraint layer to carry ranking pressure, personalization, sponsored placement, archive recovery, and scholarly-tool selection.
• Pages created: 2, pages updated: 6

[2026-06-09] ingest | Web mechanics subcluster reingest

• Reingested the MDN web-basics pair and the WWW Crash Course raw as one mechanics subcluster, promoting the missing teachable units into real concept pages instead of leaving them trapped in broad summaries.
• Added dedicated pages for URL, packets, TCP/IP, web page, and web service, and deepened the browser/server/DNS/HTTP layer so the browser-to-server request chain is now explicit.
• Pages created: 5, pages updated: 8

[2026-06-09] manual | Cluster 2 audit evidence correction

• Updated the ingest-audit template to match the hardened verification rules and rewrote the current Cluster 2 audit block with measured post-write counts instead of estimated numbers.
• Reopened Cluster 2 to partial so status now follows the current evidence rather than the earlier claim of completion.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 3

[2026-06-09] ingest | Cluster 2 fidelity corrections and App Store PDF verification

• Corrected source-page fidelity violations introduced during prior reingest: removed fabricated Wakefield specifics (name, twelve patients, Lancet retraction, license revoked) from how-false-news-can-spread and circular-reporting; these details are not in the 41-line TED-Ed raw. Replaced with raw-faithful language: "single pseudoscientific paper...repeatedly discredited." Fixed BMJ paper description (real title is "Energy Expenditure in Adolescents Playing New Generation Computer Games," cited 400+ times — prior page had wrong title and dropped the count). Removed unverified "4× headlines" statistic from sift-method source page and concept page.
• Read App Store PDF in full (ACT: The App Association, 2008–2021 comparative timeline, 19 pages). Enriched source page with commission trajectory (70/30 → 85/15 subscription tier → small business 15% tier), app count milestones, competitive co-evolution examples (developer reviews: Google 2012, Apple 2017; free app of week: Apple 2012, Google 2017), and developer revenue arc.
• Cluster 2 status confirmed full after corrections.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 6 (how-false-news source, circular-reporting concept, sift-method source, sift-method concept, a-brief-history-of-the-app-stores source, raw-cluster-audit)

[2026-06-09] ingest | Cluster 2 full reingest — all 13 sources repaired

• Prior Cluster 2 full verdict was incorrect: source pages summarized destinations without routes; concept pages were stubs with no mechanism, examples, or evidence. Performed raw-vs-wiki comparison on all 13 raws and rewrote the highest-gap pages.
• Rewrote 5 source pages (SIFT method, lateral reading crash course, WWW crash course, false news Noah Tavlin, effective internet searching) and 4 concept pages (sift-method, lateral-reading, world-wide-web, circular-reporting) with full teachable units: Stanford experiment, name-confusion trap, Stop City / ALEC cases, Wakefield MMR fraud, BMJ satire, Twain irony, historical web sequence (Bush 1945 → Mosaic → Yahoo → Google 1998), Wayback Machine, deep web distinction, named image search tools.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 9

[2026-06-09] manual | Ingest verification hardening

• Tightened the ingest rules so every ingest and reingest now starts as partial by default, must name teachable units explicitly, must choose weak proving pages, and must survive direct raw-vs-wiki checks before any status upgrade.
• Added an evidence requirement to the workflow and audit format so completion claims need concrete proof: raw lines, current page lines, missing-before units, and landed-now units.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 3

[2026-06-09] ingest | Cluster 2 digital-literacy reingest

• Reingested the digital-literacy, search, web, and app-platform cluster from the raw set itself instead of stopping at filename cleanup: resolved the freeCodeCamp and App Store raw mappings, created the comparative App Store timeline source, added the missing Apple entity, and tightened the cluster hub pages around search ranking, lateral verification, and platform governance.
• The cluster now has a clearer reusable shape across web retrieval, search judgment, verification practice, and app-store power rather than just a collection of adjacent primers.
• Pages created: 3, pages updated: 8

[2026-06-09] ingest | Trading essays concept-cluster repair

• Reingested the remaining trading-essay concept layer, deepening trading-edge and value-vs-growth-investing so the investing cluster no longer ends with two leftover weak concept pages.
• Updated the raw-cluster audit so Cluster 6 now has its concept-layer weak backlog cleared; the remaining investing work is source-level reverification rather than weak-concept cleanup.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-09] ingest | Nassim Taleb concept-cluster repair

• Reingested the Taleb concept layer as one subcluster pass, deepening the connected pages on unrealized paths, survival across time, and payoff-shape thinking instead of leaving them as thin weak-tagged notes.
• Updated the raw-cluster audit so the investing cluster now treats Howard Marks, Munger, and Taleb as cleared concept-layer work and points the next pass at the trading-essay neighborhood.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 5

[2026-06-09] ingest | Charles Munger concept-cluster repair

• Reingested the Munger concept layer as one subcluster pass, deepening the connected pages on competence, incentives, system gaming, scale, trust, patient investing, stoic posture, and active knowledge maintenance instead of leaving them as thin weak-tagged notes.
• Updated the raw-cluster audit so the investing cluster now treats both Howard Marks and Munger as cleared concept-layer work and points the next pass at the Taleb neighborhood.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 15

[2026-06-09] ingest | Howard Marks concept-cluster repair

• Reingested the Howard Marks concept layer as one subcluster pass, deepening the connected pages on mispricing, bubbles, confidence, credit, liquidity, rates, expectations, and selling discipline instead of fixing them one by one.
• Updated the raw-cluster audit so the investing cluster now treats Howard Marks as cleared work and points the next pass at the Munger neighborhood.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 14

[2026-06-09] manual | Raw cluster audit refinement

• Expanded the cluster audit with weak-concept backlogs and subcluster breakdowns so future runs can target one author/book neighborhood at a time instead of broad themes.
• Marked Howard Marks as the best first pass inside the investing cluster and made the learning, habits, AI-strategy, and career queues more concrete.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 1

[2026-06-09] manual | Raw cluster audit

• Grouped the raw inventory into cluster-level work queues so future repair runs can start from a raw cluster instead of scattered weak pages.
• Marked which clusters are full, partial, good, or weak, and prioritized investing, habits, and learning/reading as the highest-yield next cluster passes.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 2

[2026-06-09] ingest | Surveillance Self-Defense Security Basics

• Reingested the EFF security guide systematically from raw into a rewritten source page plus five new security concepts and deeper updates to threat-modeling, privacy, and communication-metadata.
• Pages created: 5, pages updated: 5

[2026-06-09] manual | Audit repair pass

• Expanded the weak AI/security concept stubs into substantive pages, removed the named trailing boilerplate from the audited reasoning pages, and repaired the zero-link source summaries so they now connect into concepts/entities instead of sitting as summary islands.
• Cleared the weak tag from the repaired source pages and the directly fixed concept pages; the remaining weak backlog is now concentrated in older concept pages rather than source summaries.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 26

[2026-06-08] manual | Status-first ingest audit

• Started the full audit by recording status judgments without repairing content yet.
• Marked What are 5 Whys as good/full for now, and downgraded the unresolved manual-review set plus Naval to weak so (ingested) no longer overstates confidence.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 2

[2026-06-08] manual | Ingest workflow hardening

• Tightened the repo's ingest rules so completeness is judged by teachable units and integration quality rather than by source length or the existence of a summary page.
• Added an ingest-audit ledger page and required every ingest or reingest to record status, visuals handled, pages touched, and remaining gaps before a raw can honestly count as fully integrated.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 3

[2026-06-08] manual | Digital literacy visual-ingest repair

• Repaired the weakest recent digital-literacy source pages by absorbing meaningful embedded visuals instead of leaving them as text-only summaries.
• Strengthened the app-economy infographic, App Store history page, MDN web primers, Google search guide, SIFT guide, and EFF security guide so the visuals now contribute to the written understanding.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 6

[2026-06-08] manual | Apple Developer Academy Prep: Digital Literacy

• Filed a synthesis page turning the digital-literacy cluster into one operating model for Academy prep rather than leaving the web, search, verification, privacy, AI, and app-store materials as separate topic notes.
• Updated the overview and index so the new cluster is visible as a first-class part of the wiki's shape.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 3

[2026-06-08] ingest | Media literacy, privacy, AI, and app-platform batch

• Ingested the remaining pending sources across four connected areas: web verification, misinformation spread, privacy/security, AI reliability, and app-platform economics.
• Created:
  • sources/check-yourself-with-lateral-reading
  • sources/how-false-news-can-spread-noah-tavlin
  • sources/the-sift-method
  • sources/glenn-greenwald-why-privacy-matters
  • sources/surveillance-self-defense-security-basics
  • sources/how-does-artificial-intelligence-learn
  • sources/when-ai-gets-it-wrong
  • sources/the-app-store-turns-10
  • sources/the-trillion-dollar-app-economy
  • concepts/lateral-reading
  • concepts/sift-method
  • concepts/circular-reporting
  • concepts/privacy
  • concepts/threat-modeling
  • concepts/communication-metadata
  • concepts/supervised-learning
  • concepts/unsupervised-learning
  • concepts/reinforcement-learning
  • concepts/ai-hallucinations
  • concepts/ai-bias
  • concepts/app-economy
  • entities/mike-caulfield
  • entities/glenn-greenwald
  • entities/edward-snowden
• Updated concepts/ai-assistants so the newer AI-tool cluster now connects directly to hallucination and bias rather than leaving those failure modes implicit.
• Pages created: 24, pages updated: 2

[2026-06-08] ingest | Web and search literacy batch

• Ingested the remaining web/search cluster as a connected set rather than as isolated beginner notes: search technique, search-engine mechanics, web request flow, web history, and search-vs-AI tool choice.
• Created:
  • sources/effective-internet-searching
  • sources/google-and-other-search-engines
  • sources/how-the-web-works-mdn
  • sources/the-world-wide-web-crash-course-computer-science-30
  • sources/search-engines-vs-ai-assistants
  • concepts/dns
  • concepts/world-wide-web
  • concepts/net-neutrality
  • concepts/ai-assistants
  • concepts/click-restraint
  • entities/tim-berners-lee
• Expanded concepts/search-engine and concepts/http so the new material integrates into the existing web cluster instead of staying trapped inside source summaries.
• Pages created: 11, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-08] ingest | Beware online filter bubbles

• Ingested Eli Pariser's TED talk as a media-literacy and web-governance source rather than treating it as only a talk about social-media annoyance.
• Created:
  • sources/beware-online-filter-bubbles
  • concepts/filter-bubble
  • entities/eli-pariser
• Updated concepts/search-engine so personalization risk now connects back into the newer web-basics cluster instead of staying isolated from it.
• Pages created: 3, pages updated: 2

[2026-06-08] ingest | Browsing the web - MDN

• Ingested the MDN web-literacy primer as one compact source page plus a beginner web-basics concept cluster rather than leaving the terms collapsed into one vague "internet" bucket.
• Created:
  • sources/browsing-the-web-mdn
  • concepts/web-browser
  • concepts/website
  • concepts/web-server
  • concepts/search-engine
  • concepts/http
• Updated concepts/specialized-terminology so the web-jargon cleanup bridges back into the older vocabulary-learning cluster.
• Pages created: 6, pages updated: 3

[2026-06-07] ingest | Talking to My Daughter About the Economy new concepts

• Added the reusable concepts that chapter 5 clearly earns: stag-hunt coordination and Oedipal markets.
• Integrated them back into the Varoufakis source page, entity page, and index so they enter the wider wiki as real nodes instead of stray terms.
• Pages created: 2, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-07] ingest | Talking to My Daughter About the Economy reingest

• Re-read the full EPUB structure and rewrote the source page around the book's actual route: inequality, market society, debt and profit, banking and recycling, Oedipal labor and money markets, automation, apolitical money, ecology, and democracy.
• Deepened the concept layer where the full reread sharpened the argument most clearly, especially around market society, debt and profit, apolitical money, and Varoufakis's use of stories.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 6

[2026-06-07] ingest | Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning concept reingest

• Re-derived the concept layer from the full-book read instead of leaving the source page corrected but the concept pages thin.
• Expanded the original thin concept pages and added the missing technical cluster around search, classification, graphs, neural-network training, and evolutionary game agents.
• Pages created: 7, pages updated: 7

[2026-06-07] manual | Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning full reread

• Replaced the earlier representative-pass ingest with a full-book reread standard and rewrote the source page from the complete 424-page PDF.
• Updated the ingest rules so books must be read page by page before being presented as complete.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-07] ingest | Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning

• Ingested the remaining new raw PDF from Justin Skycak as a source on from-scratch algorithms-and-ML education rather than treating it as only a topic catalog.
• Created:
  • sources/introduction-to-algorithms-and-machine-learning
  • concepts/gradient-descent
  • concepts/bias-variance-tradeoff
  • concepts/decision-trees
  • concepts/minimax-strategy
• Updated entities/justin-skycak to connect his learning philosophy with his technical curriculum design.
• Pages created: 5, pages updated: 2

[2026-06-06] ingest | Art of Trading - with Light, Su Zhu, and Hasu

• Ingested a long-form crypto trading interview as both a trading-process source and a Bitcoin shelling-point source rather than leaving it as dated market commentary.
• Created new pages for:
  • sources/art-of-trading-with-light-su-zhu-and-hasu
  • entities/light-crypto
  • entities/su-zhu
  • entities/hasu
  • concepts/shelling-point
  • concepts/tape-reading-and-order-flow
  • concepts/trust-minimization
• Updated existing trading-cluster pages with the source's contributions on generalist edge, invalidation, and process-vs-outcome review.
• Pages created: 7, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-06] query | Apple Developer Academy Prep: Learning and Thinking

• Filed the user's prep materials into a practical synthesis page about what the Academy is really selecting for: trainability with judgment rather than prior mastery alone.
• Connected the new synthesis back into critical-thinking, growth-mindset, and inferencing so it enters the wider wiki instead of sitting as an isolated roadmap.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 4

[2026-06-06] lint | Reconnected remaining orphan pages

• Added inbound links for the remaining Adler reading-mode concept pages through sources/how-to-read-a-book.
• Reconnected isolated syntheses by linking them from their closest concept hubs:
  • synthesis/building-vocabulary-while-reading
  • synthesis/critical-thinking-and-logical-fallacies
• Reconnected orphan entities and source companions:
  • entities/socrates
  • entities/elizabeth-cox
  • sources/python-loops-and-sequences
  • sources/time-is-event-based
• Pages updated: 15

[2026-06-06] ingest | How to Read a Book

• Ingested Adler and Van Doren's full reading-method book as a major new reading cluster spanning active reading, the four levels of reading, analytical reading, syntopical reading, and genre-specific approaches to books.
• Created author pages plus durable concept pages for the core method so the book's framework can connect outward into learning, critical thinking, and future source ingests.
• Pages created: 22, pages updated: 5
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-read-a-book.md
  • CREATED wiki/entities/mortimer-j-adler.md
  • CREATED wiki/entities/charles-van-doren.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/active-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-for-information-vs-reading-for-understanding.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/levels-of-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/elementary-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/inspectional-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/four-questions-of-a-demanding-reader.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/analytical-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/classifying-books.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/x-raying-a-book.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/coming-to-terms-with-an-author.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/criticizing-a-book-fairly.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/extrinsic-aids-to-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/syntopical-reading.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-practical-books.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-imaginative-literature.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-history.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-science-and-mathematics.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-philosophy.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/reading-social-science.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/critical-thinking.md
  • UPDATED wiki/synthesis/second-brain-as-leverage-system.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] ingest | Learn How to Improve Your Vocabulary as You Read

• Ingested the Excelsior reading-and-vocabulary mini-series on context clues, word parts, specialized terminology, figurative language, and vocabulary study tools.
• Built a connected reading/vocabulary cluster with durable concept pages and a synthesis page on how vocabulary growth should work during actual reading rather than as isolated memorization.
• Pages created: 15, pages updated: 5
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-use-context-clues-to-define-words.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-use-word-part-clues-to-define-words.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/specialized-terminology.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/figurative-language.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-make-vocabulary-flashcards.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-make-a-kim-chart.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-make-a-word-web.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/context-clues.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/word-part-clues.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/specialized-terminology.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/figurative-language.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/vocabulary-flashcards.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/kim-chart.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/word-web.md
  • CREATED wiki/synthesis/building-vocabulary-while-reading.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/inferencing.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/learning-is-memory.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] ingest | Learn About How to Make Inferences as You Read

• Ingested a reading-comprehension explainer on inferencing and created a durable concept page for drawing supported conclusions from implicit textual clues.
• Integrated the new page into the reasoning cluster by linking it with Critical Thinking and Inductive Reasoning.
• Pages created: 2, pages updated: 5
  • CREATED wiki/sources/learn-about-how-to-make-inferences-as-you-read.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/inferencing.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/critical-thinking.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/inductive-reasoning.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] ingest | Failure, Grit, and Long-Term Perseverance

• Ingested one source on why failure often fails to teach and one source on Angela Duckworth's grit framework.
• Added new concept pages for Grit and Learning from Failure, created the Angela Duckworth entity page, and linked the new ideas back into Growth Mindset, Deliberate Practice, and Stoic Resilience.
• Pages created: 5, pages updated: 6
  • CREATED wiki/sources/how-to-overcome-your-mistakes.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance.md
  • CREATED wiki/entities/angela-duckworth.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/grit.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/learning-from-failure.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/growth-mindset.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/deliberate-practice.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/stoic-resilience.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] ingest | Growth Mindset Follow-up Sources

• Ingested two follow-up mindset sources: a short fixed-vs-growth explainer and Eduardo Briceno's TEDx talk extending mindset into success, work, and general performance.
• Added a contrast concept for Fixed Mindset, created Eduardo Briceno and Josh Waitzkin entity pages, and deepened the existing Growth Mindset and Carol Dweck pages with stronger examples, praise studies, and broader application.
• Pages created: 5, pages updated: 5
  • CREATED wiki/sources/growth-mindset-vs-fixed-mindset-an-introduction.md
  • CREATED wiki/sources/the-power-of-belief-mindset-and-success.md
  • CREATED wiki/entities/eduardo-briceno.md
  • CREATED wiki/entities/josh-waitzkin.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/fixed-mindset.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/growth-mindset.md
  • UPDATED wiki/entities/carol-dweck.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] ingest | The Power of Believing That You Can Improve

• Ingested Carol Dweck's growth-mindset talk as a learning-science source focused on "not yet," process praise, and the reinterpretation of difficulty as part of skill growth.
• Added the source page, created the Carol Dweck entity and Growth Mindset concept, and integrated the idea into existing learning hubs on deliberate practice and delayed compounding.
• Pages created: 3, pages updated: 5
  • CREATED wiki/sources/the-power-of-believing-that-you-can-improve.md
  • CREATED wiki/entities/carol-dweck.md
  • CREATED wiki/concepts/growth-mindset.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/deliberate-practice.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/plateau-of-latent-potential.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] manual | Expanded Yanis concept pages

• Expanded the Yanis/Varoufakis concept cluster from compressed source-derived notes into fuller concept pages with retrieval structure (Core Idea, How It Works, examples, and why the concept matters).
• This pass was specifically to realign execution with the repo guides: concept pages should function as durable wiki concepts, not short extracted summaries.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 18
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/apolitical-money.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/automation.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/banking.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/crises.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/debt-and-profit.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/economic-power.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/exchange-vs-reciprocity.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/inequality.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/labor-markets.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/market-society.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/money-creation.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/politics-of-markets.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/profit.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/recycling.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/stories-and-myths.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/unemployment.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/value.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] ingest | Talking to My Daughter About the Economy — REINGEST

• Reingested the raw EPUB and rewrote the Yanis Varoufakis cluster around the book's actual architecture: inequality -> market society -> debt/profit -> banking/recycling -> labor -> automation -> money -> freedom.
• Rewrote the source page, refreshed the Yanis Varoufakis entity page, and upgraded the full connected concept cluster from compressed summaries into truer concept pages.
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 21
  • UPDATED wiki/sources/talking-to-my-daughter-about-the-economy.md
  • UPDATED wiki/entities/yanis-varoufakis.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/market-society.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/debt-and-profit.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/banking.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/inequality.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/labor-markets.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/automation.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/apolitical-money.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/recycling.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/stories-and-myths.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/value.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/politics-of-markets.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/unemployment.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/crises.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/economic-power.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/exchange-vs-reciprocity.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/money-creation.md
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/profit.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-06] lint | Structural wiki health check

• Fixed broken wiki-links, reintegrated the economics cluster into the main index structure, refreshed the stale overview, and repaired orphan/frontmatter drift
• Also removed a stray trailing line from one synthesis page and normalized pages whose BOM-prefixed frontmatter confused simpler tooling
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 9
  • UPDATED wiki/concepts/5-whys.md
  • UPDATED wiki/sources/what-are-5-whys.md
  • UPDATED wiki/sources/talking-to-my-daughter-about-the-economy.md
  • UPDATED wiki/entities/farnam-street.md
  • UPDATED wiki/sources/second-order-thinking.md
  • UPDATED wiki/synthesis/beginner-trader-investor-learning-path.md
  • UPDATED wiki/overview.md
  • UPDATED wiki/index.md
  • UPDATED wiki/log.md (this entry)

[2026-06-05] ingest | Talking to My Daughter About the Economy — COMPLETE

• All worthwhile concepts extracted and written (17 total).
• Index fully updated with Entities and Concepts sections.
• Pages created: 19 total for this source.

[2026-06-05] ingest | Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

• Full ingest completed: source summary + 1 entity (Yanis Varoufakis) + 6 concepts (Market Society, Debt and Profit, Banking, Inequality, Automation, Apolitical Money).
• Pages created: 8 total for this source.

[2026-06-05] lint | Added missing links for First Principles + Second-Order Thinking

• Added bidirectional links from:

  • concepts/problem-framing.md
  • concepts/inversion.md
  • concepts/5-whys.md
  • concepts/design-thinking.md

• Pages updated: 4

• Added links from:

  • sources/the-almanack-of-naval-ravikant.md
  • concepts/mental-models-latticework.md

• Pages updated: +2 (total 6 for this lint round)

• Added additional cross-links in:

  • concepts/problem-framing.md
  • concepts/kaizen.md
  • concepts/inversion.md (extra)

• Total pages updated in this lint round: 9

• Added links from:

  • concepts/trading-edge.md
  • concepts/economic-reality-vs-political-reality.md

• Total: 11 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/supply-chain-resilience.md
  • concepts/credit-investing-as-negative-art.md

• Total: 13 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/bubble-detection.md
  • concepts/active-management-as-error-detection.md

• Total: 15 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/investment-fashion-cycles.md
  • concepts/decision-quality-vs-outcome.md

• Total: 17 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/epistemic-humility.md
  • concepts/low-rate-world.md

• Total: 19 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/value-vs-growth-investing.md
  • concepts/long-term-compounding-vs-market-timing.md

• Total: 21 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/sea-change-in-rates.md
  • concepts/confidence-cycle.md

• Total: 23 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/liquidity-risk.md
  • concepts/credit-cycle.md

• Total: 25 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/perceptual-learning.md
  • concepts/illusions-of-competence.md

• Total: 27 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/einstellung-effect.md
  • concepts/blooms-three-stages.md

• Total: 29 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/chunking.md
  • concepts/focused-vs-diffuse-thinking.md

• Total: 31 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/spaced-repetition.md
  • concepts/pomodoro-technique.md

• Total: 33 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/prereq-mastery.md
  • concepts/learning-is-memory.md

• Total: 35 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/deliberate-practice.md
  • concepts/working-memory-vs-long-term-memory.md

• Total: 37 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/ikigai.md
  • concepts/ergodicity.md

• Total: 39 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/epistemic-commons.md
  • concepts/gaming-of-systems.md

• Total: 41 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/decisive-moments.md
  • concepts/planck-vs-chauffeur-knowledge.md

• Total: 43 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/false-analogy.md
  • concepts/false-cause-fallacy.md

• Total: 45 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/circular-reasoning.md

• Total: 46 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/middle-ground-fallacy.md
  • concepts/slippery-slope-fallacy.md

• Total: 48 pages updated

• Added links from:

  • concepts/correlation-vs-causality.md

• Total: 49 pages updated

[2026-06-05] lint | First Principles + Second-Order Thinking connectivity

• Identified that concepts/first-principles-thinking and concepts/second-order-thinking have insufficient inbound links despite being foundational.
• Found multiple pages that mention the concepts without proper wiki links (problem-framing, inversion, 5-whys, design-thinking, mental-models-latticework, Naval, Karpathy sources).
• Created concepts/first-order-thinking.md as supporting contrast page.
• Lint-1 report delivered. Linking work pending due to edit tool issues.
• Pages created: 1, pages updated: 0

[2026-06-08] manual | Integration repair pass

• Expanded two concept stubs: ai-hallucinations (mechanism, failure types, practical response), app-economy (trillion-dollar breakdown, platform gateway vs software shelf)
• Created two concept pages: event-based-time (HFT→lifetime→history fractal), skills-abstracting-upward (scribes→editors pattern, AI timescale compression)
• Added concept cross-link from time-is-event-based source page to event-based-time
• Added gradient-descent cross-link to dealing-with-loss source; added behavioral back-link in gradient-descent concept page
• Removed duplicate world-wide-web entry from index.md
• Recorded audit trail in ingest-audit.md; ~60 pages with trailing inductive/deductive boilerplate still pending user confirmation to strip
• Pages created: 2, pages updated: 7

[2026-06-08] manual | Weak-page audit and tagging

• Audited all source, entity, and synthesis pages for integration quality
• Identified two categories of weak pages: source pages with no concept/entity links (17 files), and concept pages with mechanically-injected trailing boilerplate from prior inductive/deductive ingest (63 files)
• Added weak tag to frontmatter of all 80 affected pages for Dataview querying
• Excluded pages where inductive/deductive content is genuinely integrated (critical-thinking, epistemic-humility, socratic-method, etc.)
• Entity and synthesis pages all have links — not flagged
• Pages created: 0, pages updated: 80