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.

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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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