Hi, I'm Daniel Miessler
I'm worried about humanity's future.
Most people built their identities around their jobs--their title, their place in a hierarchy, their usefulness to an organization. AI is about to automate a lot of that, which will cause a crisis for millions.
But I think this is also an opportunity. If we do it right, AI can free people to discover who they actually are--their purposes, their gifts, the things they'd pursue even if nobody paid them.
That's what I'm working on: helping humans upgrade themselves for a post-work world.
What I'm Building
TELOS helps you articulate who you are, what you value, and what you're trying to achieve--structured self-knowledge that AI can actually use to help you.
PAI is Personal AI Infrastructure--the scaffolding for building your own AI assistant that knows your context, follows your preferences, and improves over time.
Substrate is the deeper foundation--a framework for understanding what humans are, what we want, and what progress actually means.
Fabric is a collection of crowdsourced prompts for common AI tasks--extract wisdom, analyze security, summarize content, and more.
Human 3.0 is the philosophy--a framework for human flourishing when AI handles the routine work.
Projects
| Project | What It Does | |
|---|---|---|
| TELOS | Framework for deep personal context | |
| PAI | Personal AI Infrastructure--build your own AI assistant | |
| Substrate | Philosophy of human understanding and progress | |
| Fabric | Crowdsourced AI prompts for common tasks | |
| SecLists | Security testing wordlists and resources |
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