A Zettelkasten Is Not a Database
The value of a personal knowledge system isn't retrieval, it's recombination. A Zettelkasten works when it creates the conditions for ideas to collide, not when it stores everything you've ever thought.
Writing
Ideas worth writing down.
Written by Michael Rossi, sometimes with an AI writing partner.
Don't Pick a Model. Route the Prompt.
Local LLMs aren't ready to replace frontier models for everything. They are ready to replace them for some things. A small router on your own machine captures that gap today, and a bigger one as local models improve.
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Understand It Deeply Enough to Direct It
The tools changed from Excel macros to AI agents, but the work stayed the same: find the real problem, understand the system, and direct the right solution.
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