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Andrew Rose’s Personal Notes

Who am I?

My name is Andrew Rose, and when I was six years old I believed that nothing was impossible which did not defy the laws of physics. I still believe that nothing is impossible which does not defy the laws of physics, and the laws of physics allow for an awful lot. Naturally, this has led to a rather ambitious conception of what is possible, and, therefore, what I find interesting. But from this ambition, perhaps too many interests have emerged, and certainly too many for me to make sense of all at once.

I made this wiki because I was getting older (I have just completed my 28th solar lap at the time of this writing), and I was looking at everything I have worked on in my life, and I was suddenly feeling a sense of panic. Does my life make… sense? What have I done with this one wild and precious life of mine, and how can I understand it? How can others understand it? How could I begin to explain myself. And, for the first time, how can I explain this all to my computer? If I want my personal AI systems to help me, I need them to understand me, and how can I help them understand me if I don’t even understand myself!

In this state of panic I opened my notes, hoping to find clues to my puzzling identity. I was greeted with 2032 personal notes from the last six years of my life (from roughly 2019, when I started taking notes using Simplenote). With the help of Claude Code, I began to review. This wiki is a public documentation of that review process. As I work through my notes, I edit this wiki, adding pages, organizing pages, and tending to my own web of ideas, inspiration, links, essays, principles, and so on.

My hope is that this will help me to communicate myself to you, and to your personal AI systems, so that we can work together. Maybe there’s something in this wiki that can help you; I sure hope so!

Most of these notes are written by me, though Claude occasionally scribes summaries, notes, or contextual information for the sake of clarity. The wiki should make clear when something is in my voice or Claude’s voice, and if somehow that is not clear anywhere, just leave a comment.

The following was written by Claude on April 06, 2026 as an attempt to summarize my intent when we were originally planning this wiki project:

This wiki is an intelligence engine — a living, growing map of my ideas, interests, and thinking. I’m processing 7 years of personal notes (2019–2026) one at a time, with Claude as a thinking partner, and publishing the results here.

The wiki is built on three layers:

  • Sources: raw notes from my Simplenote and old Obsidian vault (private)
  • Wiki: the pages I’m building from those sources (public, what you see here)
  • Meta: the process, log, and ideas behind how this wiki gets made (mostly public — see Process and Ideas)

This is a working garden. Many pages are drafts. Many ideas are still evolving. That’s the point.

The previous version of this site is preserved at old.ajr.fyi. Its prose pages have been imported into this wiki — see About, Poetry, Your Life Isn’t a TV Show, On NY Democrats, and Assorted Links. Each page is tagged imported_from: ajr.fyi in its frontmatter.

Where to start

How it works

I read each old note out loud with Claude, we talk about what still resonates and what’s changed, and Claude turns the conversation into wiki pages with cross-links. Over time the graph compounds. The full methodology is in Processing Methodology.

Comments and connections are welcome. This wiki is meant to be a starting point for thinking together.

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