Michael E. Karpeles (Mek)
Citizen of the World (世界市民行道)
My purpose is to curate a living map of the world's knowledge.
First time here? Try a gentle introduction.
Table of Contents
- My Mission
- APIs
- Quantified Self
- RFCs
- Essays
- Curations
- Projects
- Experiments
- Music & Art
- Continuity (If I Get Hit by a Self-Driving Car)
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APIs
For those who prefer programatic methods to access my life:
- /api/v1/identity
- /api/v1/bookmarks
- /api/v1/media
- /api/v1/quantified-self
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Quantified Self
To accomplish my goals, I must be disciplined and act on principles.
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Objective Key Results (OKR) Tracker
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Reading List
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Daily Goals
(deprecated)
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Schedule
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Readlog
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Commonbook
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Genealogy
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My Possessions + Gear
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Projects
- Imperatives: Make the world objectively better for everyone. Act on the most urgent imperatives.
- Open Journal Foundation unites institutions in universalizing open-access to public academic journals & papers.
- Graph.global (video) aims to become a distributed global database of unique entities (people, places, things) accessible by the entire World Wide Web.
- Todo.rip (alpha) is a free, light-weight, frictionless, rolling todo list with slack-like commands
- Miley.io (defunct) is the free, milestone driven, multi-project manager for ambitious people.
- Skillsera.org A Universal Curriculum of youtube video segments
- FromScrat.ch (pre-alpha) A wiki of composable, modular, axiomatic recipes for comprehensively creating fundamental technologies from scratch.
- WhyLoop: Recursive explanations down to axioms.
- Dissertate.org (concept) Publish your directed path of academic readings to get to a conclusion
- Math.mx is a zoomable taxonomy of thousands of math topics. Read the long term goal
- Groovebox.org Listen to archive.org's collection of 135,000 live concerts, hundreds of albums and thousands of artists for free.
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Essays
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Universal Knowledge
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On Books (2016-10-29)
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Standardized Testing and the Consequences of Guessing (2017-04-08)
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EPIC: An Improved Ecosystem for Literate Research (RFC)
(2016-01-11)
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A Version Controlled Word-Wide-Web (RFC)
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The Problems of Academic Publishing
- Towards World Wide Web 2.0
- The Web in 2040
- The Decentralized-Centralized Web
- Towards a Universal Todo List
- Where Google Falls Short
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Epistemology
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EPIC: An Improved Ecosystem for Literate Research (RFC)
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A Version Controlled Word-Wide-Web (RFC)
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Types of Questions
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Philosophy
- Curbing Your Enthusiasm
- On Friendship
- How I Think (in progress)
- On Spending Money (2017-04-15)
- Incompleteness Theorem Doesn't Mean "Stop Trying" (2015-05-03)
- Computing as a Way of Life (in progress)
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Types of Questions
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Software
- What the Browser is Missing
- Screen v. Tmux
- Towards a Universal Todo List
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Too Many Browser Tabs [SOLVED]
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Automate Away Repetitive Web Tasks
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Self Improvement & Reflection
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On Effective Procrastination
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The People Who Have Shaped Me
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On Reaching Inaccessible People (2017-05-28)
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On Strategies for Attention Defecit Disorder [ADD] (2017-05-28)
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The Road to Doing Good Work
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Amplifying Productivity through Environment
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Science
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Exploring "equivalence" of Biology and Boolean Logic
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Political Essays
- Capitalism or Socialism? (2017-11-15 Wed)
- Treatise on Change
- Debt & Taxes (2015-12-02)
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Towards More Efficient Political Voting
- The Challenges of Immigration
- Kicking the Bucket
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Curations
- Life Lessons
- Preventing Global and Existential Catastrophe
- A Map of All Mathematics
- Universal Knowledge
- The Laws of Science
- The Foundation(s) of Great Inventions
- (An Attempt at) A Unified Theory of the Universe
- Neurology & The Brain
- The Best Textbooks (also Internet Archive Select Works)
- Essays to Write ...
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Presentations
- AngelHack 2012 SF
- SuperHappyDevHouse #53 Lightning Talks
- Aaron Swartz Day 2017
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Experiments
- Stomp #foot-keyboard #usb #microcontroller
- Experimental Browser #browser
- Historia (Provenance) #chrome-extension
- Enpy (English to Python Parser) #python #english #parser
- Dungeons #MUD
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Music & Art
Enjoying and creating art.
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A list of music I enjoy
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A collection of songs I've recorded
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Poetry
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Quintet A book I am casually writing. (notes and more notes)