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Jorge Arango
@jarango.bsky.social
Information Architect

Books: Duly Noted, Living in Information, Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond

More IA: https://jarango.com
Course: http://ia.wtf
What does "superagency" mean for small and medium businesses trying to get work done?

Next week, Greg Petroff and I are launching a new series of live conversations to explore the possibilities of AI for SMBs.
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Last year, I shared a script that uses LLMs to draw concept maps. With the release of Claude Agent Skills, I thought it'd be neat to adapt it to give Claude better concept mapping abilities.

Here's a walkthrough + installation instructions.

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LLMapper: A Claude Skill for drawing concept maps
YouTube video by Jorge Arango
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
An new Skill that gives Claude the ability to draw and manipulate concept maps.
The LLMapper Agent Skill
An new Skill that gives Claude the ability to draw and manipulate concept maps.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Exploring works that express ideas and feelings by transcending media conventions.
Humanities Crash Course Week 45: More Modernism
Exploring works that express ideas and feelings by transcending media conventions.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A model for acting skillfully when things are changing.
Traction Heroes Ep. 22: Thresholds of Change
A model for acting skillfully when things are changing.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An interview about a software tool central to my work life.
The Omni Show Ep. 164: How I Use OmniFocus
An interview about a software tool central to my work life.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
How to deliver value by rearchitecting knowledge pipelines around AI constraints.
LLMs as Robot Arms
How to deliver value by rearchitecting knowledge pipelines around AI constraints.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Diving into a deeply painful and destructive moral failing: prejudice.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A taxonomy of five kinds of traps that can keep you from gaining traction — and how to avoid them.
Traction Heroes Ep. 21: Social Traps
A taxonomy of five kinds of traps that can keep you from gaining traction — and how to avoid them.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Transcendence as a way to cope with the drabness of everyday life.
Humanities Crash Course Week 42: Evil Flowers
Transcendence as a way to cope with the drabness of everyday life.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Learning about memory and motivations from two classic novels.
Humanities Crash Course Week 41: What Moves Us
Learning about memory and motivations from two classic novels.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Unpacking a trait essential for gaining traction.
Traction Heroes Ep. 20: Gumption
Unpacking a trait essential for gaining traction.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Connecting with meaning by transcending cultural conventions.
Humanities Crash Course Week 40: Good & Evil
Connecting with meaning by transcending cultural conventions.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Much of what passes for ‘news’ is more about stoking desire than informing. 👀
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Last week, I delved into Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I liked the book — and that led me to a terrible mistake: watching the 1931 film.

To say I didn’t like it is an understatement. Mercifully, it’s only 70 minutes long. Check out my full dump. 👇

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Humanities Crash Course Week 39: Gothic Horror
Learning about agency and ethics from a 200-year-old novel (and not its more famous film adaptation.)
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October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
How to turn handwritten notes into Markdown — on your computer.

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Transcribe Handwriting Using a Local LLM
How to turn handwritten notes into Markdown — on your computer.
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September 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Are you a visual thinker with a book in you? Join me at the Sketch Your Mind conference on Oct 16 where I’ll show how I used visual maps to write two of my books. It’s online — and it’s free!
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Learning about agency and ethics from a 200-year-old novel (and not its more famous film adaptation.)
Humanities Crash Course Week 39: Gothic Horror
Learning about agency and ethics from a 200-year-old novel (and not its more famous film adaptation.)
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September 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
LLM inception: prompting ChatGPT to write a prompt for Claude Code asking it to convert a current project to instructions for a custom GPT. 🤪
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Jorge Arango
David Bowie: I Have Not Been To Oxford Town - from his 1995 album, 1. Outside; co-composed and co-produced by Brian Eno; synthesizers, treatments and strategies by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDh9...
I Have Not Been to Oxford Town
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
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September 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of one of my favorite records: David Bowie's "Outside." If you've never heard it, give it a spin — it's unusual, even for Bowie. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle)
Outside is the twentieth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 25 September 1995 through Virgin Records in the United States and Arista Records, BMG and RCA Records in other…
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September 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Share your favorite black and white movie.
September 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposted by Jorge Arango
Instead of having Apple Intelligence constantly offering to replacing human creativity, maybe it could just fix things like this instead?
September 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Exploring a key question: How do you decide when it’s time to let go?
Traction Heroes Ep. 19: Pruning
Exploring a key question: How do you decide when it’s time to let go?
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September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Perennially relevant lessons about liberty and bottom-up organization from two classic texts.
Humanities Crash Course Week 38: Emergence
Perennially relevant lessons about liberty and bottom-up organization from two classic texts.
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September 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM