My name is Linus. My research investigates the future of knowledge representation and creative work aided by machine understanding of language. I prototype software interfaces that help us become clearer thinkers and more prolific dreamers.

Jun 22, 2024 · As of time of publication, I have a publicly hosted demo of everything in this work at https://linus.zone/prism. I built this as an internal research tool, so the interface isn’t the most intuitive, and there is some functionality I won’t explain here. But this is …

Simple full-text search library for JavaScript that runs fast without an index, used pervasively across my projects like YC Vibe Check and linus.zone/entr Superstat CLI written in Oak for quickly viewing all work-in-progress changes in a workspace of Git repositories; it runs and summarizes git status + diff for every repo in a folder

Sep 1, 2011 · I'm Linus, and I'm from the Midwest Sep 21. To build a community, elevate the storytellers Sep 2. Travel tips for you and for me Sep 1. Tomorrow, the fog will lift Aug 29. History is momentum Aug 23. How to find your people, or, my story Aug 16. On leading change in the tech industry Aug 12. It's the programming environment, not the programming ...

— Linus (@thesephist) July 13, 2020. Since then, I’d thought about executing on this idea a few times, but got distracted or scared away by the potential complexity of the project each time.

Dec 21, 2024 · Linus's stream. 2025/3/8 1:55. Problems of search and problems of learning, as far and wide as the eye can see. And all this land, for the taking, if you are bright-eyed enough to see it and to seize it. 2025/1/25 20:16. AI systems with research taste.

May 1, 2022 · — Linus (@thesephist) May 7, 2022. Playing with this experiment, I appreciated that rather than trying to access the world through the narrow pipe of a text conversation, instead the agent (shell) and I were both manipulating some shared environment collaboratively. Swimming in latent space

Aug 4, 2020 · This March, I spent a couple of days traveling through western Iceland. While I was there, I thought a lot about tools – mechanical tools, software tools, tools that last, and tools that are fragile.

I, Linus Lee, is the creator of this blog post. I’m typing out these words out with my own hands on my laptop. But that’s not all that goes into it. For you to see this post on your screen, these words have to be safely stored on my hard drive, made by people halfway across the world in a factory. Then the server’s software, made by a ...

Aug 10, 2021 · A month ago, I built a personal search engine called Monocle that let me search through a trove of personal information I’ve saved over time, from notes to journal entries to bookmarks and tweets. Shortly thereafter, I switched my default search engine in my web browser from Google to Monocle, marking the start of my slow descent into the fascinating rabbit hole that is transmogrifying my ...