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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