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After reading a lot of one person's work, the useful output is a verdict on each idea: adopt, modify, reject, or conflicts with something I already do. A worked example from an audit of Lee Robinson's writing.
RAG is a ladder of levels, and each level was added to fix a specific failure in the one below. A solo builder should climb only as far as their own failures require.
For a single person's knowledge base, markdown articles compiled by an LLM plus a generated index answer questions without retrieval infrastructure. That holds up to a size limit, and the limit is worth naming.
The CoALA taxonomy names four kinds of agent memory: working, semantic, procedural and episodic. In practice each one is a plain file, and knowing which kind a fact is tells me which file it belongs in.
The CEO of Obsidian runs a flat vault with one folder. I run ten numbered folders. Both are right. Here is what changes when an LLM is your primary reader.