A small directory of public minibases worth studying. None of them are called minibases. All of them are.
Andy Matuschak — notes.andymatuschak.org
The original public evergreen-notes garden. Software design, learning, productivity, all in tightly written notes with explicit links between them. The structure of how he thinks is visible on the page. Closer to a museum than a wiki.
Gwern Branwen — gwern.net
Encyclopedic essays and linked notes on AI, biology, statistics, and whatever else has caught Gwern's eye for the last 15 years. Massive but tightly curated. The reference for how thorough one person's minibase can actually get.
Maggie Appleton — maggieappleton.com/garden
Anthropology-of-technology meets digital garden. Hand-illustrated, deeply considered essays and seedlings on AI, design, and the social shape of new tools. A masterclass in caring about the form of a note.
Tom Critchlow — tomcritchlow.com/wiki
A strategy consultant's working wiki. Public sense-making in progress. Drafts, notes, mental models, all visibly half-finished. Most adults wish their thinking looked like this from the outside.
Andrej Karpathy — karpathy.github.io
Karpathy's blog and lecture notes. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero, Software 2.0, and the rest. The corpus he hands to himself and the world when teaching from first principles. Public, narrow, dense.
Are.na channels — are.na
A visual-first social bookmarking tool that happens to be the easiest way to share a focused minibase publicly. Find a channel like "interfaces" or "architectural details" and you find a working minibase. Small, specific, deeply curated.
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