Knowledge work
Writing, note systems and generative-engine optimization.
Writing
- The tells
AI writing gives itself away at the level of structure, not word choice. A field guide to the patterns, and the guideline change that bans them from our posts.
- Build a brain that never forgets
Explore how we solved the catastrophic forgetting problem in LLMs by building an external knowledge system that mimics learning through context manipulation, without…
- Building use-cases
Building systems that actually learn and get smarter over time is hard, facing challenges with traditional databases and LLMs. This post outlines an approach to building…
- Access the brainery
This page outlines how developers can connect to and utilize Brainery's extensive knowledge base and AI-driven capabilities. By integrating a straightforward MCP…
- Brainery architecture
An overview of Brainery's architecture, detailing how it ingests, processes, and transforms data from diverse sources into a dynamic knowledge base.
- No. 10: Duc Nghiem on motivation from within
Duc Nghiem, part 2 of his story as a father: how his own dad shaped him, how his drive came from proving himself to his dad until he burned out, and why he sets no…
- No. 09: Duc Nghiem on raising a daughter
Duc Nghiem, part 1 of his story as a father: an unplanned pregnancy, stepping back from his startup career for his daughter's first three years, and what raising her…
- No. 08: Huy Tieu on joining a nonprofit
Huy Tieu on feeling lost when work stops teaching you, moving from business analyst at a tech company to product manager at a nonprofit, and staying kind through…
- No. 06: Loc Nguyen on working in Germany
Loc Nguyen, ten years into system architecture in Vietnam when he moved to Germany in 2019, on the culture shock of German work: no pings, booked time, consensus, and…
Research notes
- Seeding your content for AI: a writer’s guide
This guide shows writers practical tactics for sharing content on platforms like Reddit, YouTube, and Quora to boost citations and stay visible in AI-generated answers.
- Stand up GEO tracking tools: a simple guide
Not sure if your content is showing up in AI search? This guide walks you through simple GEO tracking methods so you can see what works and keep your memos in play.
- Generative engine optimization
Learn the essential principles of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): structure content for AI, boost your reference rate, and get LLMs to quote your pages directly in…
- Question trees: brainstorming research questions for a business problem
Learn how question trees help brainstorm research questions and explore business problems, guiding decision-making with clear, broad inquiries beyond simple yes or no…
- Ahrens on the slip box, from atomic notes to writing from the bottom up
Reading notes on the book How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens, covering atomic notes, connection, rewriting in your own words, flexible systems and writing that…
- A scene has large-scale and small-scale structures
Learn how to craft powerful scenes using large-scale structures like goals, conflicts, and disasters, plus small-scale motivation-reaction units to engage readers and…
- Lester Dent's master plot for pulp fiction
Learn Lester Dent’s simple master plot for crafting suspenseful 6000-word stories with clear hero struggles, twists, physical conflicts, and engaging pacing to keep…
- Show, don't tell: vivid detail in business writing
Learn how "show, don''t tell" enhances writing and business communication by using vivid details and sharing information to engage audiences more effectively than simple…
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- The collector's fallacy
Knowing about something is not the same as knowing it. Capturing information feels like progress, and it is not learning until you work on what you captured.
- The five commandments of storytelling from the Story Grid
Learn Shawn Coyne's five essential Story Grid commandments—Inciting incident, Crisis, Climax, and Resolution—to craft powerful, effective scenes in fiction writing.
- The talking heads avoidance device: adding action to dialogue scenes
The talking heads avoidance device (THAD) adds action to dialogue scenes, revealing character traits, emotions, and setting details while increasing tension and…
- Staying visible in AI search with GEO
Why generative engine optimization (GEO) decides whose knowledge AI answers cite, what the daily work of staying visible involves, and how to choose an AI visibility…
- The Six Lines of Gold: learning the key structures of a language fast
Discover Tim Ferriss's Six Lines of Gold method to quickly learn key language structures and common phrases, helping you grasp syntax, semantics, and fluency basics in…
- State, explain, link - An all-purpose writing technique
State, explain, link is a basic style for organizing and explaining ideas in an understandable way. This technique may have many names, but in essence it is a way to…
Playbooks
- Record a Discord talk on your own machine
Discord has no recorder, and a copy captured off the call costs three quarters of the pixels. Record locally as the presenter, have the host capture the call for the…
- Composing forward engineering newsletter
This guide shows how the Dwarves create the forward engineering newsletter, a monthly summary of tech research and trends. It outlines our process to craft issues that…
- How I create content for multiple platforms
To help all our Dwarves team members, create original, helpful, and consistent writing across various platforms, we've put together this content guideline as a reference…
- Write content for multimedia guidelines
To help all our Dwarves team members, create original, helpful, and consistent writing across various platforms, we've put together this content guideline as a reference…
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