I have something new and exciting to show you!

Well, I'm not sure if you'll find it exciting, but I'm thrilled about it.

Over the past few weeks, I have invested a lot of time into revamping my website so that I can share with you all my Blog posts and Knowledge Base in one place. Perhaps we can call it a Knowledge Base Blog. Hum, it looks like KBB would be a good acronym. Anyway, here's what I've done so far.

Oh, by the way, you may be asking yourself why I'm using Substack. This may or may not be temporary; however, due to the migration of my website to a different platform, I have lost the newsletter feature that I previously had. Anyway, back to my KBB.

Let's start with the left-side menu. Except for Books, the first group of items—from About me to Ethics Statement—are the same topics (pages) I already had on the other site.

Toolbox and Maker are where I'm exploring ways to share my Knowledge Base with you. As you can see in the image below, there are many topics, and each one of them contains explanations, how-tos, and other types of resources and information to help you learn more about those areas of interest.

However, the cool part, at least for me, is how I'm connecting all that with the blog posts. Think of all the information as widgets I can add to any post. As a matter of fact, embedding them is part of what I've been doing for the last few weeks.

Let's look at the Books section. For now, there are only three books there, but the idea is to keep adding them. The book Algorithms to Live By, for example, is a page with some of my thoughts about it. Anyone who wants to know what I think about the book can go to that page. But there's another path to that same information. In fact, many paths.

You may be reading a post, like this one, with that same information embedded. In other words, every time I mention that book in a post, I can include that “widget”. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are several integrations like this all over the new website.

But there's more. If you take a look at the bottom of the book's page, you'll see the Links to this page list. That's an automatic compilation of all the pages mentioning that book. And if we go back to the Toolbox, each topic also has (will have) a page like that. For example, vladcampos.com/evernote, vladcampos.com/supernote, and vladcampos.com/voicenotes are automatic compilations of posts about those topics.

Don't leave yet. There's more. In many pages on the website, you'll find words that start with hashtags. Those are tags, and clicking on them will open a list of other pages with that tag.

I am still working on many things, and the structure may change in the coming days or weeks, but the main goal is to keep connecting new content to this web of knowledge.

Back to Substack…

As you can imagine, this intricate structure is only possible on my website, and that's why I have no idea how to “translate” it to a newsletter. But that is a problem I am leaving to my future self to deal with. For now, I invite you to explore my KBB.

I wish you a wonderful 2025 🎉

Vlad.