Content Index

About the Author

Jim Kleban is an AI builder and writer with a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He has spent twenty years working in AI and software systems at Microsoft, Facebook, Stripe, and startups. He is the founder of Infeather and creator of World Tree, an AI travel guide. He has visited 61 countries, maintains a daily meditation practice, and has read over 350 books.

Projects

• World Tree - AI travel guide with local voices and cultural depth. worldtree.app
• Infeather - AI-powered newsletter curating the best articles on the web. infeather.com
• Quizzal - Spaced repetition Chrome extension. Retain what you read and earn your feed-scrolling time. quizzal.io

Essays - Technology

• Why Building On LLMs is a Gold Rush (2023) - It's the limitations of LLMs, not their capabilities, that are powering the startup opportunity.
• A Vision for Feather Software (2022) - A manifesto for building bootstrapped, human-first AI tools that serve user intentions rather than ad-driven engagement.

Essays - Life and Philosophy

• Reading 12 Books at Once (2023) - On the practice of reading many books simultaneously as a thinking exercise.

Essays - Shorter Reflections

• Marcus Aurelius and Meditations (2021) - Stoicism as spiritual practice, not repressed emotion.
• The Lamb Lied Down On Midi (2021) - A father's MIDI Genesis compositions and what we leave behind.
• Strategies for Generating Ideas (2021) - A daily exercise in startup idea generation.
• Restore, Don't Shame (2021) - Restorative practices in parenting.

Other Pages

• About - Biography in four chapters: early curiosity, academic foundation, industry years, independent builder.
• Research - Academic publications in computer vision, machine learning, and search.
• Reading - 350+ books read, with favorites and influences.
• Memoir - Travels and a year-by-year timeline of life events.
• Photography - Travel photography on the Fuji system.
• Music - Electronic music compositions.