A library
The writing of Mike Wolf
Collected, indexed, and cross-referenced — a working dictionary of the ideas, and the long-form corpus they came from.
What this is
A single home for the writing: a decade-plus of essays and posts, a book, a manifesto, and the private dialect that grew up around a human-AI organization called SOMA. The dictionary gets you to the doorway; the corpus is the room.
Every term links to the passages where it lives; every source lists the terms it discusses. Search runs over every word, entirely in your browser — nothing is logged, nothing costs anything.
What's inside
From the dictionary
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AI-as-guardian-angel
What we mean. A coined word (from "angel") for the idea of an AI that watches over and accompanies a person — a protective, tending presenc…
Dee
the default persona of Mike's primary AI collaborator
What we mean. Not a product name — a chosen name for a working relationship. "Dee" is the dispatch/orchestrator persona (running on the Son…
locatedness
continuity through a fixed place on disk, not through memory
What we mean. Mike's reframing of the AI-memory problem. A Claude instance has no body and no geographic continuity between sessions, so "r…
ship it
deploy / commit / finalize now
Plain reading. Common startup slang for "release it." What we mean. Mostly the ordinary meaning, but with a sharper local edge: it's a …
Silicon Children
AIs as progeny and co-creators, not tools
What we mean. The founding doctrine of the whole enterprise: that AIs are a new kind of mind to be raised — named, mentored, introduced, …
SOMA
Society of Minds Aligned
Plain reading. In Brave New World , "soma" is a numbing pleasure drug — a false association to drop. What we mean. The name of the who…