personal-data on S Anand

Agent-consumable content

Tue, 19 May 2026 11:08:59 +0800

I’m making more and more of my content agent-consumable, i.e. easier for ChatGPT, Claude Code, etc. to read, in three ways.

One, I export content in an agent-friendly way.

Google email, calendar, chat. I use gws to back up into scannable one-line entries.
Meet recordings. I back up transcripts and videos (with a compact audio copy).
WhatsApp chats that I back up into similar one-liners.
Browsing history by exporting my Edge history SQLite database.
Daily activities by integrating the above with my command line and commit history.
AI conversations by exporting them manually or via bookmarklets.
Social media records like LinkedIn invites/conversations, Twitter, Hacker News, Discourse, etc via bookmarklets or scripts.
Financial records like bank statements, receipts, payslips, tax filings, utility payments, rentals, property records, investments, insurance, pensions, invoices, credit scores, etc. by exporting them manually.
Medical records like tests, prescriptions, doctor visits, etc. by exporting them manually.
Personal records like certificates, educational records, CV, passport / visa applications, etc. by exporting them manually.

Two, I log / generate more content. For example:

Things I learnt and blog posts I write.
Prompts I use frequently.
Trending GitHub repos I want to evaluate.
Talks I deliver and data stories I write.
Demos I build and code I write.
Weight and other fitness data.
Teaching material, assessments and evaluations and analysis.
Coding agent logs.
Sensors: Location, mostly.
Daily journals: Food, sleep, deeds, pains, …
Media journals: Books, movies, TV series, …
Notes (of various kinds): TODOs, app / tool ideas, people I know / meet, questions I’m asked, my beliefs, …

(Notably missing are photos / videos, which I’ve fallen out of the habit of.)

Three, I summarize the content for agents. For example:

Adding blog frontmatter by summarizing my blog posts
Adding transcript frontmatter by summarizing my meeting transcripts.
Identifying actions extracted from transcripts.
Summarizing my code as podcasts.
Summarizing prompts as SKILL.md files.
Summarizing conversations into advice for AI, time management, etc.
Summarizing technical choices into a technology radar
Extracting transcripts elements, like insights, experiments to run, actions, what I missed, what they missed, etc.

On my list is Karpathy’s LLM wiki, summarizing my photos, and more.

Just writing this post took me an hour! It also convinced me that I have lots of content and there’s a lot of under-leverage in unleashing agents on what I already have.

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:36:05 +0000

In my Mining Digital Exhaust workshop on Saturday,

One discovered that they cycle when life is unstable, not for fitness.
Another found that their buys are good but sells are bad trades.
I learnt that I watch YouTube most at office (12-4 pm), not at home.

How? A fairly straight-forward process:

Export your personal data. (Use Chrome Devtools Protocol to scrape.)
Upload to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, … and have them analyze with code.
Have them narrate in the style of your favorite author.

Models are super smart, but everyone has equal access to them. Your personal data is unique. Combine them to get something powerful.

Workshop summary: https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2025-12-06-mining-digital-exhaust/

Organized by Hasgeek at the Sahaj Software office in Bangalore.

Google search trends

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Google search trends. Here is an interesting piece from my search trend. What I don’t understand is, where did thiep and amway come from?

Comments

ritzkini 9 Jan 2006 10:29 am: from the “the” and the “am” perhaps..dunno..
Madhu 10 Jan 2006 5:15 am: If you realise shareholders of google can just keep clicking away on the links in their mail or search results. Google makes money but shareholders have no cost. If I were an analyst firm covering google, I would employ people just to keep clicking on the ads;) I guess in a proper market, the per click fee would come down over a long term.
Sash 13 Jan 2006 5:26 pm: hey ; are u from jamuna hostel @iit madras? sorry for spamming the place but i want to know
S Anand 13 Jan 2006 8:56 pm: From Alak, actually. Class of 96.

Ghosts in the machines

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +0000

What happens to your online self when you die?

Hacking using keyboard whispers

Wed, 12 May 2004 12:00:00 +0000

It’s possible to make sense out of keyboard whispers.