ESCONDIDO DREAMSA READING ATLAS · ADI CHEO

01 / A LIMITED-TIME EXPERIMENT

Every story
opens a door.

Twenty years of notebooks. Thousands of fragments. One experiment in finding the stories hiding between them.

Read a little. Answer a question. Your curiosity helps me discover which threads are still alive.

Enter the reading atlas ↓
Escondido Dreams — an open book beneath a doorway to the sea

WHAT IS THIS?

A public step
between archive and novel.

This is a limited-time reading experiment: a way to see how many readers want to explore my writing, what they connect with, and which questions make them answer back.

For more than twenty years I have accumulated notebooks—scribbles, stories, poems, sketches, to-do lists, stray thoughts, and pages I once considered disposable. There is now too much for me to read through alone. So I built a system that uses AI to transcribe the material, organize it, find recurring themes, and propose paths through it.

I am working to polish the words into a novel. This is not that novel. It is a strange stepping stone made possible by AI: a way to rediscover my own lines, forgotten dreams, and perspectives I may have outgrown—thoughts so distant they no longer quite feel like mine.

THE SOURCE FIELD

One life,
many traces.

Notebook photographsAudio recordingsOld blogsSketchesAsanaObsidianNotionPersonal lists

The system transcribes, separates, and connects thousands of individual source materials. AI helps sift and select; the writing, uncertainty, memory, and mess are mine.

YOUR READING PATH

Follow your curiosity

Read → Reflect → Uncover

Opening the atlas…

WHY SHARE IT?

How much of a life have I already turned into data—and placed on the internet, where it may now be available to AI?

If the technology and intelligence infrastructure can read this archive, I want to use that access for myself: to reflect, retrieve, and choose what still matters.

And then I thought: at least share it. At least for now. For a short time. I’ll see what, from all of this, I can eventually publish.

YOUR PLACE IN THE STORY

Come in.
Stay curious.

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