Personal Knowledge Systems
Capture for retrieval, not hoarding — and retain what you read.
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9 min readA personal knowledge system that helps you retrieve, not hoard
Highlights, clippings, and AI summaries pile up without making you smarter. A small capture-to-retrieval system built around three real decisions — plus what to do about sensitive notes, other people's data, and the false privacy of a personal account.
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9 min readRead less, remember more: an AI-assisted reading loop
Asking AI to summarize a document is the fastest way to feel informed and forget everything by Friday. A reading workflow — preview, active questions, unaided recall, source-checked synthesis — that keeps you the one who understood the text.
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7 min readPracticing a language with AI: a drill partner, not a certified teacher
AI can drill vocabulary, correct sentences, and run low-stakes roleplay at 11 p.m. It cannot certify your level, judge your accent reliably, or replace a real conversation with another person. A practice routine that uses AI for what it is good at.
Beginner
7 min readTurning lecture notes into retrieval practice before you forget them
Notes you took today and never test yourself on are mostly gone by the exam. A workflow for converting your own lecture notes into source-grounded quiz questions, self-tested and spaced across the term, instead of re-read the week before finals.
Beginner
7 min readSpaced practice, retrieval, and interleaving—with AI doing the right work
Build a practical study system around three evidence-backed learning techniques, two of them strongly supported and one more tentative. AI prepares questions and feedback; you perform the retrieval and make the distinctions.
Beginner
10 min readCompany knowledge RAG: permissions, leakage, and source boundaries
A company knowledge assistant is only safe if retrieval respects permissions. How to design RAG source boundaries, ACL filtering, document ownership, logging, stale-source handling, and refusal behavior.
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