Resources
Hand-picked links for onboarding into Jacob's worldview. Originally compiled by Jacob in a text thread to David Mao (April 2026, just met at "Maddy's party"). Reorganized here for general use.
The links are clustered by what kind of onboarding they do. Pick the cluster that matches what you're after:
| Cluster | When to start here |
|---|---|
| Vision Onboarding | "I want to understand the big picture / IdeaFlow / Humanity 3.0" |
| Paradigm Onboarding | "I want to install the operating system, not just learn the apps" — NVC, open-tools attitude |
| Life Upgrade Onboarding | "I want to actually live differently — yoga, contemplative depth" |
| Meditation Starting Points | "I want to start a practice today, beginner-safe" |
All links at a glance
| Link | Purpose | Cluster |
|---|---|---|
| otter.ai recording | The 2-hour vision conversation that seeded this wiki | Vision Onboarding |
| This wiki | The structured version of that conversation | Vision Onboarding |
| Engelbart — Guiding Philosophy | The intellectual lineage of Collective Intelligence | Vision Onboarding |
| quests.world | A Jacob project — see Quests World | Vision Onboarding |
| nvc.jacobcole.net | Jacob's NVC onboarding site | Paradigm Onboarding |
| github.com/opentoolshub | Jacob's open-source tools org | Paradigm Onboarding |
| yoga.jacobcole.net | The book Religiousness in Yoga — six-page excerpt | Life Upgrade Onboarding |
| californiayoga.com/new-to-yoga | The studio Jacob recommends for Iyengar Yoga | Meditation Starting Points |
Why this is its own section
It's tempting to scatter these links into individual entity / project / practice pages. The reason to keep them collected here too:
- Onboarding is a journey, not a node. Someone landing cold needs order, not just access.
- Recommendations rot in trees. Putting all the "if you only read one thing about X" links in one place makes them maintainable as a set.
- The cluster reveals the philosophy. The set of links Jacob hands a new friend is the philosophy in compressed form.
Meta — this wiki as onboarding artifact
A self-referential note worth preserving: when David Mao asked his AI to build him a personal wiki on WikiHub in Karpathy LLM-wiki style, Jacob sent him this wiki as the example. That happened the day after the vision conversation and ~6 hours after this wiki went live.
So this wiki is now functioning, in its first day of existence, as:
- A reference for what's in the vision conversation
- A worked example of the Karpathy LLM-wiki pattern
- An onboarding artifact for new people in Jacob's circle
See LLM Wiki as Medium for the meta-treatment.