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+# Jacob's Thoughtstream
+
+A public feed of my thinking — some polished, most not.
+
+## Two kinds of posts
+
+**[Blog](blog/)** — longer, titled posts. Things I've thought about enough to name.
+Tagged `@blog #publish` in my [NoteStream](https://notestream.cloud).
+
+**[Stream](stream/)** — tweet-sized thoughts, by date. Raw, unedited, chronological.
+Tagged `#publish` alone in NoteStream.
+
+## How it works
+
+I write notes in NoteStream throughout the day. When I tag one `#publish`, an agent
+picks it up and mirrors it here — either as a blog post (if it's tagged `@blog`)
+or appended to today's stream entry.
+
+Source is NoteStream; this wiki is the public mirror.
+
+## Why
+
+Most of my thinking happens in fragments. Rather than polish everything into essays,
+I want a public surface for the fragments themselves — plus the occasional
+longer thing when a fragment wants to grow up.
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+# AI Frees Time for Self-Improvement
+
+*2026-04-12*
+
+One of the key things that AI enables is that it gives us the time to do
+self-improvement. All those small backlog tasks that you never had time to do,
+you can now do really quickly.
+
+---
+
+Tags: `#insight` `#right`
+Source: [NoteStream note](https://notestream.cloud) · `019d84c9`
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+# Blog
+
+Longer-form thoughts, titled and dated. Entries flow up from [NoteStream](https://notestream.cloud)
+when tagged `@blog #publish`.
+
+## Posts
+
+- [AI Frees Time for Self-Improvement](ai-time-for-self-improvement.md) — 2026-04-12
+- [Surfing in the Fog](surfing-in-the-fog.md) — 2026-03-11
+- [The Power of Choice](power-of-choice.md) — 2026-03-11
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+# The Power of Choice
+
+*2026-03-11*
+
+Revel in the power of your own agency.
+
+When I am about to open up my phone and watch YouTube in the morning instead
+of being quiet and going back to sleep — I can change that. I have a power to
+make a choice. Celebrate that power, and remake the choice constantly. Those
+choices stack up to create who I am and what I present as, until they are my
+external clothing of identity.
+
+Celebrate the joy that comes every time I do make a choice.
+
+Relates to behavior change in *Horsestance*.
+
+---
+
+Source: [NoteStream note](https://notestream.cloud) · `92c1f9e0`
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+# Surfing in the Fog
+
+*2026-03-11*
+
+When surfing in the fog I am directly prompted to think philosophically.
+
+I inevitably ponder the counterintuitive truism in quantum mechanics stating
+that all that is unseen could be — and in fact is — anything and everything it
+can be. As fellow wave riders, strangers and friends, wink out of my sphere of
+sight and consciousness, as the steadfast constructs of society become
+transient and melt into the muffling grayness, all standards for comparison
+and preconceptions of perspective vanish and my thoughts branch out
+unfettered.
+
+As I ride (or duck beneath) the waves that silently materialize before me,
+concepts that have long eluded me suddenly coalesce. The parallel pathfinding
+algorithm underlying my project for the Intel STS came to me not in a
+laboratory or classroom but as I watched the branching rivulets of water find
+their way down my surfboard as I emerged from underneath a wave — I saw how
+signals splitting and rejoining as they propagate through a network can
+simulate the shortest path problem in computer science. Often, I find it more
+productive to open my mind to the vast ocean's meditative lull than to study.
+
+Sitting at peace in the stillness between the hollow waves is but one
+tributary of the vast "stream of power and wisdom" that animates me, the great
+river of physical and spiritual truth that emanates from nature. Running my
+hand along the ice-glazed needles of the fallen pine, inhaling the
+green-diffracted God-thought-breath of the morning forest, laughing as I hold
+wide my windbreaker and lean euphorically into the rushing torrents of the
+rain — this timeless rapture is my inspiration, this intricate, organic
+splendor a sanctified model for my thoughts. This is why I paddle out, never
+knowing exactly where I'll return to shore.
+
+---
+
+Source: [NoteStream note](https://notestream.cloud) · `1ebdac65`
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+# 2026-03-11
+
+## TFT as a web surfboard
+
+As someone who grew up surfing, I'm acutely aware of the impact that the board
+you have has on what it feels like to, and how easy it is, to do what you're
+wanting. Surfers are enchanted by the different feelings of trying different
+boards. They are a lens through which the surfer relates to the world.
+
+Similarly, the tools we use in our basic workflow for capturing and relating
+to information can change how it feels to do so — and change the kind of
+information we capture. The workflow is built for rapid capture, multiple
+parallel projects, divergent thinking, and a step beyond towards organization.
+
+The biggest bottleneck in our ability to augment our intelligence with
+note-taking tools is in the *interface* — getting information out of our heads
+and into the machine. So we're building an app entirely around that. Rapid
+knowledge capture, as our first product.
+
+## Ideaflow vs Obsidian
+
+Obsidian is a bit too heavy/hackery for me. Tons of features, but really I
+just need a quicker way to jot stuff down — something closer to Apple Notes
+with a few more niceties.
+
+One key feature of Ideaflow is cross-sectional filtering across different
+conversations. If I write:
+
+> Conversation with Tara Raj
+> — Some note
+> — Another interesting idea. `#Idea`
+> — Another note
+> — *Name of the Wind* `#Book`
+
+Then searching for `#Book` filters to only the line matching that tag. My
+natural workflow isn't to create titled pages — it's to append notes at the
+speed of thought to the top of a giant text file. Ideaflow leans into this
+common tendency in notetakers and makes it something to be proud of, versus
+ashamed of its messiness. Especially helpful for folks who work on a lot of
+projects and/or have ADHD and need to capture notes accretively across many
+topics.
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+# Stream
+
+Short thoughts, by date. Tweet-sized, unedited. Flows up from [NoteStream](https://notestream.cloud)
+when tagged `#publish` (without `@blog`).
+
+## Entries
+
+- [2026-03-11](2026-03-11.md)
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