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.
I do lots of stuff, but I'm primarily building applications and backend AI infrastructure that helps enable Human 3.0. I also advise companies on how best to become antifragile against this whole AI thing.
Here's a short list of the ones I think are most important right now.
| Name | Stars | Short Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAI | ... | An open-source framework for building personalized AI infrastructure | GitHub |
| Fabric | ... | An open-source repository of AI prompts for solving everyday work and life problems | GitHub |
| SecLists | ... | The penetration tester's companion—passwords, fuzz strings, and security lists | GitHub |
| Telos | ... | A concept and structure for managing context for things you care about | GitHub |
| Substrate | ... | An open-source framework for human understanding, meaning, and progress | GitHub |
| Daemon | ... | The API-ification system for people, objects, and organizations | GitHub |
| Human 3.0 | — | A framework for helping humans thrive in an AI-disrupted world | How My Projects Fit Together |
| Unsupervised Learning | — | Newsletter + podcast on cybersecurity, AI, and society | Subscribe | Podcast | YouTube |
| Threshold | — | AI app for filtering content by quality threshold before consuming | Threshold.app |
Some additional context about the various efforts.
PAI is an open-source framework for building personalized AI systems that know your goals, learn from your history, and improve over time. It's fundamentally based on a universal pattern of moving from current state to desired state through verifiable iteration.
The repository provides modular "packs"—self-contained, AI-installable capability bundles—that allow you to augment generic AI agents (like Claude Code) with persistent memory, custom skills, intelligent routing, and context-aware functionality.
Rather than installing everything at once, you can incrementally adopt individual packs that solve specific problems, building a personalized infrastructure tailored to your workflows and goals.
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.
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 use cases for both work and personal.
Currently at ... stars with hundreds of prompts and 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—currently at ... stars.
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.