The education module
MONK, Tutor Mode
A desktop tutor that watches what you are doing, matches it against a library of concepts, says the one thing that fits, and then checks for weeks whether it became a habit. The design, the diagrams and the measurements.
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Principles
Education Principles
What a good teacher does, and what that means for a machine that teaches inside your own work. The gap you cannot ask about, being present at the second, holding the moment against the whole library, and saying it in the language of the work.
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Principle 03 · Learn the north star
Nester: everything you do points at something.
North stars, projects and tasks, held as a graph rather than a tree, because the thing you are doing right now usually serves more than one reason at once.
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Essay
What You Asked For, and What Actually Ran
Claude used MCP servers 1,305 times for me. I never once asked for it. As the models get better, the gap between what you understand and what runs on your behalf gets wider, never narrower.
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Manifesto
The MONK Manifesto: Nineteen Plates.
The ideas behind MONK, drawn as a plate book: schematic line work, monograph captions, one plate at a time.
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Working paper
FileMap × MONK: An AI partner for how people actually learn.
A space you can see all at once, and an agent that reaches out first. Built to help design education scale without losing the human.
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Essay
The File System as a Thinking Space
Your folders were never just storage: arranged in space, they can carry your goals, your curiosity, and your next step.
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Essay
One Canvas, Whole Studio
What changes in a design studio when twenty students, all their folders, and every draft live on one shared, zoomable canvas.
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Essay
The Cup on My Table
Fragility, memory, trust, and stories: the picture of the human mind that MONK is built on, from a talk in San Francisco.
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