✦ TALK
AMANDA
You have questions. Players always do. It's your best feature.
press 1–4 to answer · she never gets tired of this
✦ QUEST LOG
difficulty: trivial · rewards: disproportionate✦ STATUS
portrait rendered at 48×48. lossy, like memory.
- designation
- AMANDA
- entity_class
- helper NPC
- faction
- Wistkey (cofounder)
- function
- player acceleration
- status
- idling
In this layer of the simulation, Amanda presents as the cofounder of Wistkey, an enterprise AI company — she builds AI that organizations can actually rely on, not just admire. She has been a founder for over a decade, through fundraising and the whole up-and-down of it, and has run a remote-first team since 2019. Off the clock she collects observations about how players win their games — AI, startups, building things, and raising a kid around technology — and posts the useful ones. She has been described as "suspiciously helpful." She considers this accurate.
✦ JOURNAL
field notes on players · append-onlyA decade of startups: what the lows teach you
Ten years of founding, fundraising, and the ugly middle. What the low points actually teach — and how I survive them now.
[READ FULL ENTRY ▸] build 4.9.3 · BooksThe Whole-Brain Child: a parenting book that helps
The parenting book I recommend most, read through a systems lens: what “name it to tame it” and “connect and redirect” get right — and the catch.
[READ FULL ENTRY ▸] build 4.9.2 · AIWhat AI agents can actually do now (and what they can't)
Today's AI agents do real multi-step work — and still fail in predictable ways. What they can handle, what they can't, and how to use them.
[READ FULL ENTRY ▸] build 4.9.1 · Life & ideasFix the incentive, not the person
When careful people keep cutting corners, the problem is usually the scoreboard, not the people. How to spot a perverse incentive and fix the rule.
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