Laerdal Retrospective

First-Principles Thinking

• Regardless of the immediate availability of tools utilizing AI and their output, everyone and every organization needs to be paying attention. Things are moving so fast.
• AI communicates in JSON and Markdown, but mainly Markdown. We need to fully embrace markdown.

Reacting to Jon:

• Jon: "I think I understand what you were saying. But it might have been over my head"
• Response: this is 3/4 of the size of War and Peace, which took ten years to write.

Reacting to Alf-Christian and Tore Laerdal:

• Would be good for you to make suggestions on technology adoption.
• Response: 1425 "tools"

Delivering the Augment-It

• Needed Module Federation, Unified API
• Needed a way to Communicate it
• Changelog first

Rabbit Holes

• Scripting to manage the quality of Markdown files doesn't work
• Obsidian plugins did work.
• Built 6 different plugins.
  • Citation Management
  • Deep Research & Writing
  • Email Newsletter Generation
  • Metadata, Frontmatter Templates and Population