this is f*cking insane. you have been googling other people's thinking for 20 years, karpathy's one 5 minute setup gives you a google that only searches your own, and you have never once installed it
andrej karpathy pulled 16M views on one idea: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain
every article you read, every podcast you heard, every meeting you took, every dm thread you had, every tweet you drafted, all of it searchable in one line forever
the people running it today do not open chatgpt anymore. they open their own search bar. and their search bar has 11 years of their own thinking in it
the stack:
→ brew install obsidian, mkdir ~/vault, cd ~/vault
→ open claude code in that folder, type "init CLAUDE.md as the rules, /raw for sources, /wiki for your pages"
→ drop any file into /raw (transcript, pdf, screenshot, meeting notes). type one word: ingest
→ claude writes a wiki page, links it to 5 existing ones, updates CLAUDE.md with any new pattern it caught about how you think
→ never open a blank chat again. every question goes through the vault. every answer cites your own sources with dates and links
5 minutes to wire. runs forever on the laptop already in front of you
the alpha most people miss:
> search your own vault in one line and the answer cites 5 of your own past notes with dates. google cites strangers. your vault cites you
> every ingest adds cross-links to 5 past pages automatically. after 90 days your vault answers questions you forgot you had
> CLAUDE.md learns how you argue, what you change your mind on, what you avoid saying. after month 3 it drafts posts in your voice better than you can at 2am
> flip two flags and it runs on local llama. zero API bill, zero vendor lock, your thinking never leaves the box
> compounds for 10 years. after year 3 your vault knows more about what you believe than you do. year 5 and recruiters start asking you to publish parts of it
the ugly part most will scroll past:
your coworker started this on a saturday in february
by august his tweets landed 4x your engagement on the exact same topics
by october his first draft of any doc was already better than your third
the gap is one 5 minute install and 90 days of ingesting what you already consume for free
bookmark this. full step-by-step a-z guide in the article below
mojesko @mojeskoqq
