A few thoughts follow below. Let's begin with a few of the more important principles, plus a few miscellanea that don't really belong later in the essay. Some of this is repeated later in the essay.

• The purpose of the site is to help me think well1. This purpose is in opposition to many widely-used norms in online writing. I suspect that the

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In just 2 weeks, I used Gemini 3 to turn 42 books into 42 unique webpages, visualizing the unique "Vibe" of each one.

I imagine you’ve seen plenty of flashy webpages built by Gemini 3 lately and might be getting a bit tired of them—let alone books, which some find conducive only to sleep.

But if you’re curious to see what’s down the rabbit hole, the... See more

To Project Xanadu, that means enacting two types of connection: profuse and unbreakable *deep links* to embody the arbitrary connections that may be made by many authors throughout the world (content links); and *a system of visible, principled re-use*, showing the origins and context of quotations, excerpts and anthologized materials, and content... See more