About

Who writes what, stated plainly: the notes in the knowledge base are Jörn Dinkla’s own thinking material, published verbatim. They were captured and cross-linked with AI assistance, but the wording is his. The analysis posts are the reverse: drafted by Claude on Jörn’s manual trigger, then read and merged by him. Nothing here hides its authorship; the open use of AI is the point, not a footnote.

And the disclaimer, equally plainly: this is a thinking tool, not investment advice. The notes record how one person organizes what he reads about markets, including notes on why much of what one reads about markets is statistically shaky.

What this is

A personal finance knowledge base: short, atomic notes on macro, rates, indicators and market mechanics, cross-linked Zettelkasten-style. The digital version of a pile of index cards, except that the cards cite each other and the pile is searchable.

The notes assume a reader who already speaks the dialect. The topics page is the patient version: the recurring themes explained for the curious non-specialist, each section linking to the notes behind it.

The analysis page turns the pile into a lens. When something happens in markets, a post reads the news through the note network: every non-obvious concept links to the note behind it instead of pointing you at some textbook definition elsewhere. A claim with a marker-stroke link has a note behind it; a graphite dashed term with a pencil mark is a note not yet written. Each post ends by listing those missing notes — writing analysis is how the KB finds its gaps.

How it works

The notes live as markdown files with [[wikilinks]]; this site reads them in place and never rewrites them. Backlinks are computed at build time, so every note shows what cites it, the analyses included. Search runs entirely in your browser: no tracking, no service. Press / on any page to jump to it.

Built with Astro on GitHub Pages, generated with the website-factory pipeline. The design system is called China Marker: the printed record in quiet chart-paper grays, and one vivid marker color for every human mark. By day it is print; by night, an amber terminal.