David Mao
A new connection of Jacob's. Met at "Maddy's party" on April 19, 2026 (the day before this wiki was built). Phone: +1 (215) 500-6367.
Not the same person as the David in the otter.ai recording. Two different Davids in the same 24-hour window:
- David — drove the car, recorded conversation that became this wiki
- David Mao — texted Jacob the next day after meeting at a party; asked his AI to build a personal wiki on WikiHub in Karpathy LLM-wiki style
The text thread
After "Hi / This David / From Maddy party," Jacob sent David Mao a curated set of 7 onboarding links. Those links are now organized into the resources cluster:
- Vision Onboarding — vision-convo recording, this wiki, Engelbart, quests.world
- Paradigm Onboarding — NVC, opentoolshub
- Life Upgrade Onboarding — yoga.jacobcole.net
- Meditation Starting Points — California Yoga Center
David Mao reciprocated with one link: Cerebral Valley "Built with 4.7" hackathon.
David Mao's wiki request
The text thread closes with David Mao prompting his own AI:
"Research the website Wiki Hub MD, and then look at how to make me a personal wiki on there in the LLM wiki style. Make one for me and generally keep stuff private, but think about and tell me what you think I should put public for myself: what important lists, what important that are good to share with the world, what important public profile as a sort of home page for myself, etc. Can you look at all my Claude history and build me a great personal wiki on there using the Andre Karpathy LLM wiki format? If you're not familiar, please look it up."
Jacob responded by sending the URL of this wiki (https://jacobcole.wikihub.md/vision-convo) as the worked example.
This is meaningful: in its first ~6 hours of existence, this wiki was already functioning as a reference implementation of the Karpathy LLM-wiki pattern, used to onboard a new person to both the format and Jacob's worldview at the same time.
What we don't know
The transcript provides only:
- First name + last name (David Mao)
- Phone number
- Where they met (Maddy's party, April 19 2026)
- That David Mao is a Claude Code / AI-tools-curious person (he asked his AI to build him a wiki)
- The single link he sent back (a Cerebral Valley hackathon)
Not yet known: company, location, background, why they connected at the party.
Related
- David — different David, the otter recording one
- Resources Index — the cluster Jacob built for him
- LLM Wiki as Medium — the meta-treatment of why this wiki served as his example