Information Architecture

Your AI Chat Is a Black Hole. Here’s How to Turn It Into a Knowledge Engine.

Your AI chat is a black hole: brilliant insights vanish into endless scroll. The fix isn’t a smarter modelโ€”it’s dumber UI. Add structure: stars, notes, round navigation, and prompt management. Turn ephemeral conversations into a navigable knowledge base. Stop waiting for the next GPT. Start building rails for your own thoughts.

Why a PhD Student Built a Library That Knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease

A master’s graduate built a free, open library that aggregates 35k+ psychedelic research papers from a dozen APIs, deduplicates them, and distinguishes LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease. The real bottleneck in psychedelic science isn’t prohibitionโ€”it’s boring infrastructure. This library is a model for turning personal research pain into public good.

Your Perfectly Organized System Is Making Things Harder to Find

When content changes constantly, your perfectly organized indexes become traps. Claude Code abandoned RAG for three ‘dumb’ tools โ€” glob, grep, read โ€” and it worked better. The lesson: exploration cost isn’t always bad. It depends on whether what you’re exploring is stable. In fast-moving environments, a living search beats a dead map every time.