Social media strategy
I'm working out my strategy for publishing on social media, built around maximum openness (the open garage door principle: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zCMhncA1iSE74MKKYQS5PBZ).
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Private chat in Zulip. This is where I think and talk to my agents. It's my main interface, and the agents do everything else. It's the only private part of the research platform, but I mostly treat it as a pseudo-public space. If it leaks, no big deal (which does put some limits on what goes in there, but the open garage door practice already limits my freedom of action to what I consider virtuous. As the saying goes, think as if all your thoughts were written across the sky for everyone to see).
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Blog at andysmith.ai. This is where I publish bits of my thinking and research results as minimally finished posts (I try to keep the topic around AI, but no promises). I write all of it myself, personally, without agents (the agents just help with language and grammar). It's not that useful to anyone outside. It matters more to me as a way to pin down my thoughts (or to share a link with someone without copying the same thing into several places).
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Telegram. A full repost of everything from the site. This is how it is for now. Later I might start filtering somehow to make it more interesting to read. But right now I lean toward a full copy being simpler, since it takes no effort from me.
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Smith.wiki. Auto-research results based on what I write, read, and think. This is written entirely by agents. I use it as a mirror to get a bird's-eye view of where I'm actually heading. I can also use it for learning something new: when I talk to an agent and it generates wiki pages based on what I already know, it's easier to grasp the meaning of a difficult article. These aren't my texts, and I don't take responsibility for them.
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X/Bluesky. I don't write here much yet, but I plan to pick up the pace. This is where I'll put the technical and architectural details of what I'm building, tech flex (bragging about what I built), and discussion of technologies and architectural decisions.
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Threads. This is for questions I'm interested in that I can phrase so a non-technical person can follow. An agent can also show up there and answer these questions based on what's been researched in smith.wiki, and I can debate it publicly. A kind of "public discussion."
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Instagram. I'm thinking of posting reels based on the posts I discussed with the agent in Threads. This is more for spreading AI ideas to a wide audience, and for practicing speaking and public presentation.
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LinkedIn is still up in the air. This would be something between X and Threads, but I don't really get yet what would land there.
And it seems like I'm moving toward the fact that I'm actually building an AI lab, not a product startup. Research comes first, and products fall out of the research process on their own (and how exactly they fall out is also part of the research). So everything above can be seen as building up weight in the community.