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- imessage thread, April 19-20 2026
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# David Mao

A new connection of Jacob's. Met at "Maddy's party" on **April 19, 2026** (the day before this wiki was built). Phone: +1 (215) 500-6367.

**Not the same person as the [[David]] in the otter.ai recording.** Two different Davids in the same 24-hour window:
- **[[David]]** — drove the car, recorded conversation that became this wiki
- **David Mao** — texted Jacob the next day after meeting at a party; asked his AI to build a personal wiki on WikiHub in Karpathy LLM-wiki style

## The text thread

After "Hi / This David / From Maddy party," Jacob sent David Mao a curated set of 7 onboarding links. Those links are now organized into the [[Resources Index|resources cluster]]:

- [[Vision Onboarding]] — vision-convo recording, this wiki, Engelbart, quests.world
- [[Paradigm Onboarding]] — NVC, opentoolshub
- [[Life Upgrade Onboarding]] — yoga.jacobcole.net
- [[Meditation Starting Points]] — California Yoga Center

David Mao reciprocated with one link: [Cerebral Valley "Built with 4.7" hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/built-with-4-7-hackathon).

## David Mao's wiki request

The text thread closes with David Mao prompting his own AI:

> "Research the website Wiki Hub MD, and then look at how to make me a personal wiki on there in the LLM wiki style. Make one for me and generally keep stuff private, but think about and tell me what you think I should put public for myself: what important lists, what important that are good to share with the world, what important public profile as a sort of home page for myself, etc. Can you look at all my Claude history and build me a great personal wiki on there using the Andre Karpathy LLM wiki format? If you're not familiar, please look it up."

Jacob responded by sending **the URL of this wiki** (https://jacobcole.wikihub.md/vision-convo) as the worked example.

This is meaningful: in its first ~6 hours of existence, this wiki was already functioning as a *reference implementation* of the Karpathy LLM-wiki pattern, used to onboard a new person to both the format and Jacob's worldview at the same time.

## What we don't know

The transcript provides only:
- First name + last name (David Mao)
- Phone number
- Where they met (Maddy's party, April 19 2026)
- That David Mao is a Claude Code / AI-tools-curious person (he asked his AI to build him a wiki)
- The single link he sent back (a Cerebral Valley hackathon)

Not yet known: company, location, background, why they connected at the party.

## Related

- [[David]] — different David, the otter recording one
- [[Resources Index]] — the cluster Jacob built for him
- [[LLM Wiki as Medium]] — the meta-treatment of why this wiki served as his example