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+- imessage thread, April 19-20 2026
+title: David Mao
+type: entity
+visibility: public
+---
+
+# David Mao
+
+A new connection of Jacob's. Met at "Maddy's party" on **April 19, 2026** (the day before this wiki was built). Phone: +1 (215) 500-6367.
+
+**Not the same person as the [[David]] in the otter.ai recording.** Two different Davids in the same 24-hour window:
+- **[[David]]** — drove the car, recorded conversation that became this wiki
+- **David Mao** — texted Jacob the next day after meeting at a party; asked his AI to build a personal wiki on WikiHub in Karpathy LLM-wiki style
+
+## The text thread
+
+After "Hi / This David / From Maddy party," Jacob sent David Mao a curated set of 7 onboarding links. Those links are now organized into the [[Resources Index|resources cluster]]:
+
+- [[Vision Onboarding]] — vision-convo recording, this wiki, Engelbart, quests.world
+- [[Paradigm Onboarding]] — NVC, opentoolshub
+- [[Life Upgrade Onboarding]] — yoga.jacobcole.net
+- [[Meditation Starting Points]] — California Yoga Center
+
+David Mao reciprocated with one link: [Cerebral Valley "Built with 4.7" hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/built-with-4-7-hackathon).
+
+## David Mao's wiki request
+
+The text thread closes with David Mao prompting his own AI:
+
+> "Research the website Wiki Hub MD, and then look at how to make me a personal wiki on there in the LLM wiki style. Make one for me and generally keep stuff private, but think about and tell me what you think I should put public for myself: what important lists, what important that are good to share with the world, what important public profile as a sort of home page for myself, etc. Can you look at all my Claude history and build me a great personal wiki on there using the Andre Karpathy LLM wiki format? If you're not familiar, please look it up."
+
+Jacob responded by sending **the URL of this wiki** (https://jacobcole.wikihub.md/vision-convo) as the worked example.
+
+This is meaningful: in its first ~6 hours of existence, this wiki was already functioning as a *reference implementation* of the Karpathy LLM-wiki pattern, used to onboard a new person to both the format and Jacob's worldview at the same time.
+
+## What we don't know
+
+The transcript provides only:
+- First name + last name (David Mao)
+- Phone number
+- Where they met (Maddy's party, April 19 2026)
+- That David Mao is a Claude Code / AI-tools-curious person (he asked his AI to build him a wiki)
+- The single link he sent back (a Cerebral Valley hackathon)
+
+Not yet known: company, location, background, why they connected at the party.
+
+## Related
+
+- [[David]] — different David, the otter recording one
+- [[Resources Index]] — the cluster Jacob built for him
+- [[LLM Wiki as Medium]] — the meta-treatment of why this wiki served as his example
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