This is where I keep track of my active endeavors. Nothing fancy, just a list with a quick overview and a link to learn more.
Just like with /ideas and /predictions, the main purpose here is to encourage others into making a similar page of their own.
Here's a short list of the ones I think are most important right now.
| Name | Short Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| The Unsupervised Learning Newsletter | My newsletter centered around trends in cybersecurity, national security, AI, and society—and how best to prepare for what's coming | Subscribe |
| The Unsupervised Learning Podcast | The sister podcast for the newsletter. | Add to Your Podcast Client |
| Human 3.0 | A framework for helping humans get ready for a world where AI has disrupted traditional corporate work | How My Projects Fit Together |
| Telos | A concept and structure for managing context for things you care about and want to improve | How My Projects Fit Together |
| Fabric | An open-source repository of AI prompts for solving everyday work and life problems. | Fabric |
| Daemon | The API-ification system for people, objects, and organizations | Network Chuck's Fabric Video |
| Substrate | An open-source framework for human understanding, meaning, and progress | How My Projects Fit Together |
| Seclists | An open-source list of lists for pentesters and other security professionals | Github |
| Threshold | My first commercial AI app, focused on ensuring content is high-enough quality before you spend time consuming it. | Threshold.app |
Some additional context about the various efforts.
H3) Human 3.0 is a framework for helping humans get ready for a world where AI has disrupted traditional corporate work.
It involves becoming an expressive, full-spectrum human who is constantly learning, creating, and interacting with others.
→ How All My Projects Fit Together
Telos is a concept and structure for managing contextual information for things we care about, e.g., our personal lives, our family, an organization we're running, a team, a department, a company, or whatever.
The spiritual format for this is a single text document, known as a Telos File, but the format isn't as important as the concept of clear, deliberate capture of the various components.
Key among those components are mission, goals, metrics, challenges, risks, ideas, team members, a journal, and many other sections.
→ How All My Projects Fit Together
Threshold is an app I built to solve a very simple and serious problem:
There is too much content out there, and it's hard to know if it's worth your time before you actually waste your time on it.
Threshold consumes thousands of high-quality sources and then rates them and summarizes them, **allowing you to select the quality level threshold that a piece of content must meet** before it's shown to you.I literally built this because I needed it myself, and I use it every day.
Substrate is an open-source framework for human understanding, meaning, and progress.
What does that mean? The purpose of the project is to make the things that matter to humans more transparent, discussable, and ultimately—fixable.
Daemon is the API-ification system for people, objects, and organizations. It's the technology component that actually presents what an entity is about to the outside world.
Imagine a given Daemon having /preferences, /ideas, /resume, /books, etc., if it's for a person, and /menu, /capacity, and /staff, if it's for a restaurant.
→ How All My Projects Fit Together
This one I'm just starting, and am actively thinking through implementation options.
Beacon is essentially an application / interface for processing activity being broadcasted by someone. So imagine all the books they're reading, the movies they're enjoying, mentions about their new favorite coffee shop, or favorite coffee recipe, etc.
It's essentially an activity feed for someone, which is automatically created as part of their Daemon, that allows me to subscribe to them as a source of connection, inspiration, etc.
→ How All My Projects Fit Together
Since 2015 I've been running a newsletter about security, tech, and society. Today it's still focused on the same things, but with a major orientation towards Human 3.0 that we just talked about. Basically, how to upgrade ourselves to be ready for whatever comes next.
The podcast gets thousands of downloads per week, the newsletter's at around 99,000 subscribers, and the YouTube channel is at over 600,000 subscribers.
After over 20 years of consulting with companies from seed to Fortune 5, I've seen one problem sink things more than any other:
People being perpetually unclear about the mission and strategy.
SamePage is a commercial product I'm launching in February 2025 that's focused on keeping companies, departments, and teams oriented in the same direction. It takes the methodologies I've been using for over 20 years in my consulting and combines that with AI to do even more.
→ [TBA](mailto:daniel@unsupervised-learning.com?subject="SamePage Link On Website")
Fabric was my answer to the AI situation in 2023, where there were a million different tools and million different prompts, with no easy way to manage them.
What we created is a crowd-sourced repository of prompts that help with everyday useccases for both work and personal.
Currently at around 30K stars, around 150 prompts, and nearly 150 contributors worldwide.
→ Fabric
Seclists is a project I started with Jason Haddix back in 2012 as a Pentester's Toolkit. Today it's the most-used repository of passwords, fuzz strings, and other security-related lists in the world.
We were honored to have it included in the Kali Linux distribution, and it's been used by millions of security professionals worldwide.
→ Seclists
I wrote a book in 2016 called The Real Internet of Things, where I laid out Digital Assistants powered by AI, how everything would get an API, how our DAs would become our proxies for interacting with the world, how our DAs would be our constant advocates, and many other concepts that are now starting to happen.
I deliberately wrote this book because I felt in my bones that these things were inevitable, and I wanted to capture them in time. I'm quite happy I did.