# Home page I'm Paul Knight. I'm a city planner (AICP) and architectural designer at [Historical Concepts](https://www.historicalconcepts.com/) and Director of Research at the [Doug Allen Institute](https://dougalleninstitute.org/). I found myself copying and pasting the same ideas over and over to share with different people and figured this website would streamline that process. And recently, a few things made me aware of how important it is for us to control our own work and writing, to not hand it over to social-media silos: - [Kagi](https://kagi.com), a better search engine that promotes high-quality content rather than paid links. - [IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org/), a consortium of independent writers and web developers. - Manton Reece's book [*Indie Microblogging*](https://book.micro.blog/) [*(archive)*](https://web.archive.org/web/20250423033520/https://book.micro.blog/), a short history of micro.blog and social media in general. All this was inspiring and made me want to contribute to the "small internet." So here you go. Welcome to my little piece of internet real estate. ### Posts - **Astronomy** - [[Midnight at Noon]] - [[Zeiss 20x60S Binoculars]] - **Computers and AI** - [[AI Use Cases]] - [[AI-Generated Book Summaries]] - [[Practical Security Checklist]] - **Knowledge** - [[A Second Brain - Why and How]] - [[Kagi - A Better Search Engine]] - [[Link Rot and Internet Decay]] - **Philosophy** - [[On the iPhone]] - [[Seasonal Reflections and Goals]] ### Other Projects and Things - [The Urban Form Standard](https://urbanformstandard.com/) [*(archive)*](https://web.archive.org/web/20240927060143/https://urbanformstandard.com/) - [The Urban Form Atlas](https://dougalleninstitute.org/urban-form-atlas/) - [The Messy City podcast interview](https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/p/12-reasons-to-love-the-american-grid) - [Lutyens Trust America lecture](https://youtu.be/8pGuZYQ3vsQ?si=sJACl773xRxqfXq3) ### Follow - RSS: [aleph.press/rss](https://aleph.press/rss.xml) - Twitter/X: [@PKmemex](https://x.com/PKmemex) - Mastodon: [@[email protected]](https://indieweb.social/@plk2) - GitHub: [@PLK2](https://github.com/PLK2) ### Colophon This website is managed through [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) and its [Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish) service. It uses the [Minimal Publish](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal-publish) template and many inspirations from [Kepano](https://stephango.com/about). Posts are individual, plain-text [markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/) files (`.md`) stored locally on my computer then pushed to Obsidian's servers from where it is transmitted to your device.