Wiki Index
Living map of wiki pages organized by theme. Clusters are discovered through processing, not predefined.
Principles & Values
- My Principles — Andrew’s core principles and values
- Reflecting on My Principles — Living reflection on whether principles are active
Problems & Open Questions
- Open Problems — Combined list of problems worth solving and ideas worth pursuing (draft, trailhead note)
- Frontiers — Recurring theme: edges of knowledge, technology, culture worth pushing on
Philosophy & Value Theory
- On a Theory of Objective Value — Objective vs. mimetic value, three frameworks for the source of value (draft)
Attention & Environment
- The COVID Blues — Draft essay about mood calibrating to environment (2020, draft)
- Cultural Black Holes — Phenomena with gravity wells that pull attention/mood downward
- Cultural White Holes — The opposite force — creativity, love, wonder
Education & Advice
- Little Book of Lessons — Lessons are affordance-shaped ideas (draft)
- Lessons From Teaching Fractal Bootcamp — Six lessons from teaching (draft, needs expansion)
- Advice for Young People — Links, resources, fellowship programs, advice for young people and Andrew’s kids
- Nailing Your Letters of Recommendation — Recovered thread by Dr. Arianna Long on making LORs impactful
- Requests for Courses and Resources — Curated learning paths across disciplines
- A Simple Story of the American Experiment — @mbateman’s intro to American Revolution for kids
Tools & Cyborgism
- Super Mecha Suit — Superpowered computing: visibility + power through AI-augmented tooling (draft)
Meta
- What Do I Want From This Wiki — Living note on the purpose of this project (keep updating)
- Good Ideas — Hub page connecting the wiki’s core purpose to its content
- Context Dumps — Theory of context dumps as a medium (draft)
- Andrew’s List of Lists — Master index of all major lists and collections (priority page)
- Publishing Pipeline — How wiki pages become public output (priority page)
Curated Links
- Assorted Links — Series of curated reading lists from spring 2022 (6 sections)
Essays & Reflections
- Your Life Isn’t a TV Show — Life as a practice, not a sequence of accomplishments
- On NY Democrats — Community manifesto
- Thoughts on America — Fragments on American politics
- About — Life gallery (18 photos)
Poetry
- Poetry — 12 poems
People & Influences
- Bret Victor — Researcher, creator of tools for thinking
- Inventing on Principle — Bret Victor’s talk on guiding principles for creators
Students & Alumni
- Student Index — Master roster of all 77 Fractal Tech students grouped by cohort (Su2024 → Sp2026)
people/students/— One page per student, merged from intake forms, alumni career CSV, meet-the-engineers, and Discord roles- Student Database Review Notes — Data-quality flags, cohort conflicts, students needing follow-up