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-# ideas
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+title: "Jacob's Ideas"
+visibility: public
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-welcome to your wiki.
+# Jacob's Ideas
+
+A collection of ideas, brainstorms, and project concepts spanning from MIT hackathons to current AI research. Some are actively being pursued; others are seeds waiting for the right moment.
+
+---
+
+## Active Ideas
+
+Ideas being actively pursued or developed.
+
+| Idea | Description |
+|------|-------------|
+| [[lifex|LifeX]] | AI-verified meditation session platform with token economics |
+| [[model-skill-files|Model Skill Files (World Diff)]] | Community-curated world-state updates for AI models beyond their training cutoff |
+
+## Brainstorms
+
+Written up and thought through, but not yet started.
+
+| Idea | Description |
+|------|-------------|
+| [[context-engineering-prize|The Context Engineering Prize]] | Competition to get small models to perform at frontier levels through better prompting |
+| [[universal-identity|Universal Identity System]] | Frictionless cross-site authentication via a central identity hub and Omni-Link |
+
+## Research Directions
+
+Ongoing research and monitoring, not a single buildable product.
+
+| Idea | Description |
+|------|-------------|
+| [[open-social-web|Open Social Web]] | Research into ActivityPub, AT Protocol/Bluesky, and decentralized social infrastructure |
+
+## Hackathon Concepts
+
+Ideas from the MIT era — some prescient, some playful, all genuine.
+
+| Idea | Description |
+|------|-------------|
+| [[thunderpledge|ThunderPledge]] | Kickstarter for collective action pledges — "I will if you will" |
+| [[instaquote|InstaQuote (PhotoQuote)]] | Quote logging app with OCR for capturing passages from physical books |
+| [[ideaoverflow|IdeaOverflow]] | Graph-based idea brainstorming with d3.js force-directed layouts |
+| [[favorverse|Favorverse]] | Map friends' capabilities for mutual favors within social networks |
+| [[political-donation-clearinghouse|Political Donation Clearinghouse]] | Cancel out opposing political donations, redirect to charity |
+| [[shortcut-coach|Shortcut Coach]] | ML tool that observes your workflow and suggests keyboard shortcuts |
+| [[pitch-based-scrolling|Pitch-Based Scrolling]] | Assistive tech using voice pitch to control scrolling hands-free |
+| [[guitar-hero-typing-tutor|Guitar Hero Typing Tutor]] | Typing practice meets rhythm game — type to the beat |
+| [[instadefine|InstaDefine]] | Instant word definitions with zero friction |
+| [[admitsphere|AdmitSphere]] | Community platform for democratizing college admissions knowledge |
+| [[bigscreen|BigScreen]] | Combine multiple devices into a single large display |
+| [[emergency-pizza-button|Emergency Pizza Button]] | One-tap pizza ordering — minimum viable hunger solution |
+| [[digital-oxford-libraries|Digital Oxford Libraries]] | Recreate the atmosphere of Oxford's college libraries as virtual reading environments |
+
+---
+
+*18 ideas and counting. Last updated April 2026.*
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