Blog Outreach Strategy

I am just sending some messages to people about my blog one on one to see how or if that goes anywhere, what posts would you say, my recent ones would be good to send to people and find some people to send them to for me and write a one paragraph message for each

Given what I've seen evolve on your blog over the last few months, I don't think your best outreach strategy is "here's my blog." Your strongest work is now a coherent research program. The people who are most likely to respond are those who are already thinking about adjacent problems, where your work adds a perspective they haven't fully explored. These are the posts I would lead with. 1. **The Sovereign Intelligence Stack** (July 4) - Audience: researchers interested in local AI, AI infrastructure, privacy, AI sovereignty, enterprise AI. - Why: This is probably your clearest "thesis" article. It introduces an idea rather than another implementation. People I'd send it to: - entity["people","Karen Hao","AI journalist and author"] - entity["people","Simon Willison","AI researcher and blogger"] - entity["people","Jeremy Howard","fast.ai founder"] - entity["people","Thomas Wolf","Hugging Face co-founder"] - entity["known_celebrity","Andrej Karpathy","AI researcher"] - entity["people","Emad Mostaque","AI entrepreneur"] Message: > Hi, I recently published an essay on what I call the Sovereign Intelligence Stack. It's my attempt to think beyond local LLMs and toward systems where the entire intelligence pipeline—knowledge, memory, orchestration, reasoning, and ownership—is local and inspectable. I found your work while trying to validate some of these ideas, and I thought you might find the perspective interesting. If you have a chance to read it, I'd genuinely be interested in hearing where you think the framework is strong or where it falls short. --- ## 2. The Sovereign Intelligence Observatory This is for people building AI tooling rather than talking about AI. People: - entity["people","Nathan Lambert","AI researcher"] - entity["people","Hamel Husain","AI engineer"] - entity["people","Chip Huyen","AI researcher and author"] - entity["people","Latent Space","AI podcast"] (hosts) - developers working on Open WebUI, Ollama, llama.cpp Message: > Hi, I've been building what I call a Sovereign Intelligence Observatory—a system that continuously watches the AI ecosystem, ingests new research, and updates a local knowledge graph to augment human reasoning rather than simply answering prompts. I came across your work while researching similar ideas and thought there might be some overlap. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts if you have a chance to look through it. --- ## 3. Augmenting Human Intelligence This is probably the most broadly relatable. Audience: - academics - cognitive scientists - HCI researchers - AI ethics researchers People: - entity["people","Ethan Mollick","Wharton professor"] - entity["people","Melanie Mitchell","AI researcher"] - entity["people","Blaise Agüera y Arcas","AI researcher"] Message: > Hi, I've been exploring AI less as a replacement for human cognition and more as an extension of it. I recently wrote about using AI to augment human intelligence through persistent memory, structured knowledge, and long-term reasoning rather than chat interfaces alone. Your work made me think there was some philosophical overlap, so I wanted to share it in case you found it interesting. --- ## 4. Dynamic Persona MoE / Persona Architecture Audience: - agent researchers - memory researchers - RAG researchers People: - entity["people","Harrison Chase","LangChain founder"] - entity["people","Jerry Liu","LlamaIndex founder"] - entity["people","Jerry Tworek","OpenAI researcher"] (if discussing agents) - people building agent frameworks Message: > Hi, I've been experimenting with an architecture that treats personas as dynamically selected reasoning modules rather than fixed prompts. The work combines retrieval, structured memory, and mixtures of experts to produce different styles of reasoning depending on context. I found your work while exploring similar ideas and thought it might be interesting to compare approaches. --- ### Overall The thing you've started doing differently over the past week is important. Earlier posts often presented implementations; these recent posts present a worldview. That's a better basis for outreach because you're inviting people into a conversation rather than asking them to look at another AI project. I would keep every message under 120 words, personalize the first sentence to explain why you found that person's work, and end by asking for their perspective rather than their endorsement. Researchers and builders are much more likely to respond to "I'm interested in where you think this is wrong" than "Please check out my blog." That framing positions your outreach as an exchange of ideas rather than promotion.

now I have these emails of all of them and I want one message in formatted html for the email to make it very beautiful and illustrative of my message simon@simonwillison.net, jeremy@fast.ai, karen@karendhao.com, thomas@huggingface.co, karpathy@anthropic.com, pkfox@ucsd.edu, boyan@ainowinstitute.org, nathan@natolambert.com, contact@parlance-labs.com, hi@huyenchip.com, shawn@teamday.ai, emollick@sifma.org, ethan@santafe.edu, mm@santafe.edu, danny@longnow.org

I wouldn't recommend sending the exact same email to everyone on that list. People like entity["people","Simon Willison","AI researcher and blogger"], entity["people","Karen Hao","AI journalist and author"], entity["people","Jeremy Howard","fast.ai founder"], and entity["known_celebrity","Andrej Karpathy","AI researcher"] have very different interests, and mass-identical outreach is more likely to be ignored or flagged as bulk mail. A better approach is to use a common HTML template while customizing the opening sentence for each recipient ("I found your work on...", "Your writing on...", etc.). That keeps the email feeling personal while requiring only a minute or two of editing. Here's a polished HTML template that reflects the ideas you've been developing without sounding promotional. :::writing{variant="email" subject="A research idea I thought you might find interesting" id="43182"} <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>A research idea I thought you might find interesting</title> <style> body{ margin:0; padding:40px; background:#f4f7fb; font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#222; line-height:1.7; } .container{ max-width:720px; margin:auto; background:white; border-radius:14px; overflow:hidden; box-shadow:0 8px 30px rgba(0,0,0,.08); } .header{ background:linear-gradient(135deg,#0f172a,#1e3a8a); color:white; padding:40px; } .header h1{ margin:0; font-size:30px; font-weight:700; } .header p{ margin-top:10px; opacity:.9; } .content{ padding:40px; } .quote{ margin:30px 0; padding:24px; border-left:4px solid #2563eb; background:#f8fbff; font-style:italic; color:#374151; } .button{ display:inline-block; margin-top:24px; padding:14px 22px; background:#2563eb; color:white !important; text-decoration:none; border-radius:8px; font-weight:600; } .footer{ padding:30px 40px; border-top:1px solid #eee; color:#666; font-size:14px; } .footer a{ color:#2563eb; text-decoration:none; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <div class="header"> <h1>Sovereign Intelligence</h1> <p>Exploring AI systems that augment human intelligence rather than replace it.</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>Hello,</p> <p>I recently came across your work while researching ideas around local AI systems, long-term memory, and human-centered intelligence. Your perspective stood out to me, so I wanted to reach out personally.</p> <p>Over the past several months I've been building and documenting what I call the <strong>Sovereign Intelligence Stack</strong>: an architecture that treats intelligence as more than an LLM. The central idea is that reasoning emerges from the interaction of local models, persistent knowledge, structured memory, orchestration, and accumulated experience—all under the user's control.</p> <div class="quote"> "Intelligence is not the model. Intelligence is the accumulated decisions that shaped the model." </div> <p>I've been publishing the research openly as both essays and open-source projects. My goal isn't to propose a finished solution, but to contribute another way of thinking about AI systems that prioritize transparency, inspectability, and human augmentation.</p> <p>If any of these ideas resonate with your own work, I'd genuinely appreciate your perspective—whether you find the framework compelling or see places where it could be challenged or improved.</p> <a class="button" href="https://www.danielkliewer.com/blog/2026-07-04-sovereign-intelligence-stack"> Read the essay → </a> <p style="margin-top:32px;"> Thank you for your time, and for the work you've shared publicly. </p> <p> Daniel Kliewer </p> </div> <div class="footer"> Website:<br> <a href="https://www.danielkliewer.com">https://www.danielkliewer.com</a><br><br> GitHub:<br> <a href="https://github.com/kliewerdaniel">https://github.com/kliewerdaniel</a> </div> </div> </body> </html> ::: One suggestion: I'd also add a **single personalized sentence** near the beginning for each recipient. For example: - **Simon Willison:** "Your writing on local models and practical AI engineering helped shape how I think about sovereign systems." - **Karen Hao:** "Your reporting on AI power structures made me think more carefully about what user ownership of intelligence should look like." - **Jeremy Howard:** "fast.ai has long been an example to me of making sophisticated AI accessible, and I think there's an interesting overlap with the ideas I'm exploring." - **Thomas Wolf:** "Your advocacy for open AI ecosystems aligns closely with many of the principles behind this work." - **Andrej Karpathy:** "Your explanations of how modern AI systems work have influenced how I think about the relationship between models and the broader intelligence stack." Those one-line customizations will make the emails feel much more thoughtful while still letting you reuse the same overall design.

no instead just give me one message to send them all in just a brief single message let's ignore the html request

Here's a concise version that works well as an individual email or contact form submission: :::writing{variant="chat_message" id="18457"} Hi, I recently came across your work while researching ideas around AI systems, and it led me to think you might find some of my recent work interesting. Over the past several months I've been developing what I call the Sovereign Intelligence Stack—an exploration of AI that extends beyond the model itself to include local knowledge, memory, orchestration, and user ownership as parts of intelligence. I've been documenting the ideas openly on my blog, and I'd genuinely be interested in your thoughts if you have a chance to take a look. The main essay is here: https://www.danielkliewer.com/blog/2026-07-04-sovereign-intelligence-stack. Thank you for your time, and regardless, I appreciate the work you've shared publicly. :::