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Project: samnav

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Project: samnav

Work around SamNav: independent navigation, semantic search, taxonomy, and question-first access to a public writing archive.

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July 18, 2026

OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?

applied-aiweb-developmentProject: samnavsemantic-searchai-workflowsstart-here 4 min read OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam? OpenAI emailed me about Build Week with four days left, which meant choosing between several questionable Codex projects and figuring out how to make a meaningful addition to SamNav—an application that was already built, deployed, and working. The answer became “What would you ask Sam?”: a question-first way to navigate Sam Altman’s public writing without pretending to impersonate him. The new system uses SamNav’s existing taxonomy, semantic dossiers, and GPT-5.6 to interpret nuanced questions and plot a grounded route through things he has actually published.
June 4, 2026

Navigation for the End Times

web-developmentProject: samnavweb-designclassificationanti-extractionnonsensestart-here 6 min read Navigation for the End Times SamNav is a tiny independent index for Sam Altman’s blog, built because the posts are worth reading but the navigation is almost comically minimal. It adds search, topics, reading paths, related posts, and an admittedly dry Navigation Severity Score without republishing the original writing. It’s part joke, part web repair: a small Dockerized map for a corner of the internet that needed one.