Quick version in case you missed it: instead of using RAG to re-chunk your sources every time you ask a question, you compile each source once into a persistent markdown wiki. The LLM extracts concepts, writes entity and concept pages, updates cross-references, flags contradictions, and maintains the whole thing. Future queries read the pre-synthesized wiki. The part that clicked for me: the reason most of us abandon our second brains is that backlink and cross-reference upkeep is boring. The LLM doesn't care. It's happy to touch fifteen pages in one pass. I spent a couple of weeks turning Karpathy's pattern into a Claude Code plugin that actually scales (atomic pages, sharded indexes, BM25 fallback past ~300 pages). It also runs in Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Pi, and OpenClaw through the skills CLI. Install in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin /plugin install llm-wiki@llm-wiki Or in any other supported agent: npx skills add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin -a <your-agent> Five slash commands (init, ingest, query, lint, stats), stdlib-only Python, no dependencies. Plays well with Obsidian if you want the graph view. Repo: https://github.com/praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin Karpathy's gist: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f Curious if anyone here has tried the pattern themselves. What did you ingest first, and what broke before it worked?

As 20+ year entrepreneur myself, I've been wondering whether to create a free community, free to paid or paid community only. Based on the stats of this community alone, I think paid communities work best. Stephen is pretty direct, and I hope this post isn't taken the wrong way - or at least, incites discussion. Looking at the stats - 85% of all the members on this board are Level 1 - Procrastinator's. That means they signed up, and then don't comment or interact with anyone on the board. That's a lot of people doing nothing, but the 8k member count looks impressive! Skool is set up in a way where you have to comment on posts, in order to upgrade your posting ability. So you'll see welcome post replies, "thanks" comments and unproductive replies to posts. I don't think it helps the community. Instead, paid members usually join either to download resources or to ask direct questions that they need answers to. The post quality will go up, as the posts will be super specific too.

The jury is still out—but this is my experience from growing a Skool community to $78K/month. I've seen lists of various tactics you can use, but I think the secret to long term growth is MISSION and VISION. Moving people forward, keep their eyes on the next step. Making sure people are progressing towards THEIR goals. It's a lot harder than... - Trying to "increase engagement" to keep people from leaving - Adding a cancelation video to keep them from cancelling - Updating your about page to increase conversions - Making a smooth onboarding process These are surely all important tactics to growing your membership. But truthfully all those actions need to be seen through the lens of a strong mission and vision that is way bigger than you or your community (as it sits now). Those tactics alone are UTILITY, without meaning, without VALUE. It's vision and mission that will turn a community that provides ONLY utility into a TRUE movement. That's my take. I have a long list of improvements I could make, but for me investing in mission, vision and a roadmap seems to be my secret weapon.