Creating a Startup While in College

Source: DegreeLibrary.org

Source: DegreeLibrary.org
Why create process flow diagrams? Because it helps to have an official way of doing things. It helps with the onboarding of new employees. Having documented process flows forces you to sit down with all the stakeholders and reexamine the routine and its assumptions. What processes are dependent on others?What processes can be run concurrently?…
I added Obsidian last. That was the right order. Most people building a personal knowledge system do it backwards. They install Obsidian first, configure a vault, explore the plugins, build a folder structure for notes they have not written yet. Then they discover that the system needs content to be useful, and content is harder…
I ran the same two prompts on two different AI systems this morning. First, a haiku about artificial intelligence. Then a ten-stanza poem in iambic pentameter. A parlor trick, the kind of thing you do when you’re testing something and want a clean finish line. Qwen 3.6, running locally on my machine, took 80.9 seconds…
The system runs on one folder. Insid that folder are plain text files, organized into directories. No proprietary database. No SaaS subscription that can change its pricing or deprecate a feature. The intelligence is not stored in the files. The files are context. The intelligence is in the AI that reads them before it…
I have worked with Ruffalo Noel Levitz, Maguire Associates, and Hardwick Day (now EAB). They all follow a similar process. Start with the big picture Take 3-5 years of data and look at the numbers in the aggregate Calculate the highs and lows Do a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the most likely data ranges…