Garry Tan: "Personal AGI Is How You Stay Under Your Own Power"

Personal AGI represents a fundamental shift from consuming corporate-controlled AI to building proprietary, agentic infrastructure that compounds individual productivity. By leveraging personal context—the "library" of one's life—and "skill files" written in plain English, individuals can automate complex workflows and amplify their *conatus*, or the innate drive to act. This approach transforms software from a precious commodity into a modular, owned asset that evolves with the user. Unlike rented chatbots, personal AGI functions as a persistent, self-improving colleague that executes tasks while the user sleeps. Adopting this architecture requires treating one's knowledge base like production infrastructure, ensuring that cognitive labor is captured, versioned, and protected. Ultimately, owning these cognitive tools prevents the extraction of personal judgment, allowing founders and knowledge workers to maintain autonomy and operate at a scale previously reserved for large organizations.