I've built my own personal knowledge management system, https://thecompendium.cards, on nights and weekends over many years.

There are ~700 public cards, but over 10k private working notes, with hundreds more added each week.

The system feels like an outboard part of my brain.

It feels like I've fused with it, in a way.

Over the last few weekends I shifted from a classic information retrieval technique for computing similarity (overlap of stemmed words sorted by TF-IDF) to using OpenAI's embeddings.

The improvement was radical. It felt like 10xing the usefulness.

Someone this weekend asked me "what would I have to pay you to get you to give up The Compendium?"

I answered them with a question of my own: "what would I have to pay you to get lobotomized?"