Wiki-Net
Personal LLM wikis get exponentially more valuable when they connect. One brain is a knowledge base. Many linked brains are collective wisdom.
Wiki-Net is a concept Kevin and Nicky He developed together once they both kept personal LLM wikis in the Karpathy pattern. A single wiki compiles one person's knowledge, relationships, and philosophies into something an agent can reason over. The idea behind Wiki-Net is to let separate people's wikis share and merge securely, so that complementary expertise composes into a fuller picture than any one person holds. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-17; 2026-05-21
The core idea
Nicky's framing: "if 2 people both have wikis, they can swap their personal files to complement each other's people.md." Two people who know the same third person each hold a partial view. Merged, those views become a more complete record. The same logic applies to domains. "My operations take on startup growth can be integrated with your builder take on it to form a complete picture." An operator and a builder writing on the same topic produce something neither could alone. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-17; 2026-05-21
Merging into collected wisdom
The ambition is a merge feature that combines the knowledge sections of different people's wikis into a single synthesized view, "collected wisdom" on a topic, drawn from everyone who has written about it. A reader querying "startup growth" would get the operator's playbook and the builder's playbook fused, with attribution. Friends who have written on the same matter could surface suggested topics to each other. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-18; 2026-05-21
Open problems
- Secure sharing. The hard part is sharing skills and personal files without leaking what should stay private. Granular permissions on who sees which sections. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-17
- Interface. Writing markdown files by hand is friction. Wiki-Net needs a usable phone interface and a better authoring surface than raw
.mdediting. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-18 - Public vs private split. Nicky's own model is instructive: gate the operational knowledge base behind a password, keep the philosophy articles public. A network needs to respect that boundary per person and per article. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-27
Status
A concept, half-seriously floated as a YC application. Both founders are mid-building their own wikis first, which is the raw material a network would connect. The friendship that produced the idea is itself the proof of concept: two people writing complementary takes and swapping them. Source: iMessage, 2026-05-18
Connections
- Agents as Force Multipliers: a networked wiki makes every connected agent smarter.
- Compounding Systems: shared knowledge compounds faster than siloed knowledge.
- Building in Public: showing your wiki is what made Nicky build hers, which is the seed of a network.
Concept Position
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Concept family | Brain, memory, and retrieval |
| Concept owned | Personal LLM wikis get exponentially more valuable when they connect. One brain is a knowledge base. Many linked brains are collective wisdom |
| Category map | Concept System Map |
Timeline
- 2026-07-01 | Concepts category refresh added this page to the Brain, memory, and retrieval family, linked it to Concept System Map, and kept it standalone because it owns this reusable mental model: Personal LLM wikis get exponentially more valuable when they connect. One brain is a knowledge base. Many linked brains are collective wisdom. Source: User request, 2026-07-01
- 2026-06-07 | Concept page created from Kevin and Nicky He's brainstorm: swap and merge personal wikis into collected wisdom, with secure sharing and a phone interface as the open problems. Source: User, 2026-06-07; iMessage, 2026-05-17