About
Work
I'm building PaperHouse, the unifying notebook, the interface of thought.
Why?
- I think existing writing tools are not good enough. Do not overlook this reason. Creatives are sensitive to interfaces; as McLuhan said, the medium is the message. The tool you think with shapes what you can think. I see so much frictions in today’s creative process, and I hope to reduce that friction.
- I write a lot but my writings are everywhere. Yes I had an inspiration and wrote it down somewhere; where is it? Apple Notes, my notebook, Google Doc, …, Claude?
An idea I can't find again is an idea I effectively never had. There should be one unifying database for everything you've ever written, with seamless search and a connected graph. Good ideas can compound, which is why they must be in one place. If we can build that corpus, it will be the strongest personal context layer.
- Every word you put down or uttered is your thinking crystallized: a snapshot of a brain state that will never exist again. Brains are powerful, but they forget and they change shape. My family preserved a few writings from my childhood; reading them now I go like "How on earth did my thoughts go there?" I was visiting a fascinating mind that I no longer recognize. Thank God I still have that access; had we lost the writing, I would have lost that portal to go back in time.
I believe my stories, my words, should deserve the utmost respect. But that is too much work and responsibility on my shoulder, so I’d want a personal AI to help me with this tedious task. The more vividly we can reconstruct the brain state behind what you wrote, the closer we get to inventing a literal time machine.
Below are collections of my miscellaneous writing
PaperHouse 2009
PaperHouse 2017
PaperHouse 2026
Writing
Basílica de San Papel
Kafka’s Deathbed
智贱归本论