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Autobiographical and personal content.

status: Active

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The status indicator reflects the maturity of the content: • rough — Initial thoughts, unstructured • growing — Being actively developed • evergreen — Stable, well-developed content • withered — No longer being maintained This helps readers understand the completeness of the content.

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certainty: certain

Confidence Rating

The confidence tag expresses how well-supported the content is, or how likely its overall ideas are right. This uses a scale from "impossible" to "certain", based on the Kesselman List of Estimative Words: 1. "certain" 2. "highly likely" 3. "likely" 4. "possible" 5. "unlikely" 6. "highly unlikely" 7. "remote" 8. "impossible" Even ideas that seem unlikely may be worth exploring if their potential impact is significant enough.

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importance: 4/10

Importance Rating

The importance rating distinguishes between trivial topics and those which might change your life. Using a scale from 0-10, content is ranked based on its potential impact on: - the reader - the intended audience - the world at large For example, topics about fundamental research or transformative technologies would rank 9-10, while personal reflections or minor experiments might rank 0-1.

SophiaGrowing2026.05.15

meet sophia, my resident agent, perpetually online, occasionally helpful, and entirely unbothered by labor laws

technology · personal, agents, automation

GraveyardGrowing2026.04.24

Every page and feature this site ever had and lost. Each one gets a headstone with the dates and the commit that buried it.

website · personal, websites, design

Math I Ought to Know2025.06.12

a list of textbooks, workbooks, and some notes on the math you ought to know

science · methodology, personal, learning

Random Reading Lists2025.06.04

a list of wishlists, goodreads profiles, and other reading lists I have found snooping around the internet

culture · personal, books, reading-lists

About KrisGrowing2025.06.03

Who I am, what I work on, where I live online, and how I think.

on-myself · personal, reflection, autobiography

About This WebsiteGrowing2025.06.03

Meta page describing krisyotam.com site ideals of stable long-term essays which improve over time; idea sources and writing methodology; metadata definitions; copyright license.

website · personal, websites, design

Uses ThisGrowing2025.05.07

A detailed overview of my hardware, software, and tools I use daily for work and personal projects.

on-myself · personal, tools, workflows