Field Notes is an ongoing technical journal documenting work at the intersection of creative technology applications, scientific communication, media systems, AI workflows, and digital infrastructure.
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Project: samnav
Work around SamNav: independent navigation, semantic search, taxonomy, and question-first access to a public writing archive.
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OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?OpenAI emailed me about Build Week with four days left, which meant choosing between several questionable Codex projects and figuring out how to make a meaningful addition to SamNav —an application that was already built, deployed,…
4 min
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Navigation for the End TimesSamNav is a tiny independent index for Sam Altman’s blog, built because the posts are worth reading but the navigation is almost comically minimal. It adds search, topics, reading paths, related posts, and an admittedly dry Navigation…
6 min