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Aqeel πŸ¦˜βœ¨πŸ¦•

@aqeelakber.com

Exploring the intersection of science, business, tech, and art. Once a nuclear physicist. Founded and exited an AI company; now building meos labs. Meos One - your phone made better.. @getmeos.com Proudly non-binary, expect emojis in replies. πŸ’–πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ¦˜

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Will be pitching and demo'ing this at the Canberra Ideas on Tap on Thursday - come say hi or try it out now.

Meos Labs@getmeos.com

Meos puts your data and AI on your phone. Cloudless Beam uses Nexus to link your devices directly β€” no account, no copy of your notes in our cloud. Just a P2P link to the browser tab. Shipped. Works. Use it now. getmeos.com for the app meos.do for the desktop page Interested in SDK? Comment.

I've been thinking about the loneliest moment in fieldwork. It's not the rain. It's not the early mornings. It's sitting down at the end of the day with 47 observations scrawled across three notebooks, two voice memos, and a camera roll you'll never properly sort. #ruralHealth #offlineClinical

Six months ago you scribbled something about a plant you couldn't name. Today you searched "that vine with the purple flowers" and there it was. Your memory is better than you think. It just needed a better home. #PKM #SecondBrain β†’ getmeos.com

Writing in three languages and then searching for that one thought you had in German but you're typing in English and somehow it just... works? That moment still gets me every single time. #fieldResearch #offlineAI

The wildest thing about growing up online is that somewhere there's a server with a more complete memory of your teenage self than you have. And you don't have the password anymore. #privacy #localfirst

Every app you deleted left a ghost. Your habits, your 3am searches, your half-finished thoughts. Somewhere on a server you'll never see, a version of you exists that you didn't consent to. That's not a feature. That's haunting. #privacy #localfirst

Your phone has more of your writing than any notebook you've ever owned. Texts, searches, half-finished thoughts in Notes, voice memos at 2am. You've been journaling for years. You just didn't choose the audience. #animeNotes #frieren

I think the quietest rebellion left is choosing not to be known by an algorithm. Not going off grid. Not deleting everything. Just... deciding that your inner life isn't content. #privacy #localfirst

There's something absurdly intimate about a diary. More than your bedroom, more than your body. It's the only place you were fully honest. Why would you hand that to a server you've never met? #animeNotes #frieren

Your phone knows your sleep schedule, your ex's address, your 2am searches, and exactly how long you stare at certain photos. You don't know where any of that data lives. Or who's reading it. We gave away the map to our inner lives and didn't even notice because the trade felt free.

We treat our search history like it's disposable. Random queries, passing curiosity, whatever. But string a year of searches together and you've got a psychological profile more intimate than anything you'd tell a therapist. #privacy #localfirst

I've been thinking about silence lately. Not the awkward kind. The kind where you sit with your own thoughts and nobody's watching. Nobody's indexing. Nobody's learning your patterns to sell you something. That silence used to be free. Now it feels radical. #animeNotes #frieren

We gave away our inner monologue to companies that sell ads. Think about that for a second. The most private thing you have... your half-formed thoughts, your 3am worries, your unsent letters... stored on servers optimised for shareholder returns. #podcast #indiepodcast β†’ getmeos.com

I started journaling at 14. Spiral notebooks, terrible handwriting, raw everything. Those notebooks are in a box under my bed. Nobody has ever read them. Nobody ever will. That's not a feature of the notebook. That's the whole point. #animeNotes #frieren

Your phone has a better memory of your life than you do. It knows where you were last Tuesday. What you searched at 2am. Who you texted back and who you didn't. But ask it what you were thinking about last month... and it's got nothing. #animeNotes #frieren getmeos.com

You spend hours curating playlists, organising photos, building a digital life. Then you hand the keys to companies whose entire business model is knowing you better than you know yourself. The bar for "free" got real low somewhere along the way. #podcast #indiepodcast

Your phone knows your sleep schedule, your ex's name, where you eat lunch, and what you googled at 3am. You don't even know what you journaled last Tuesday. Something's backwards here. #illustration #art

You've got 847 untitled notes, 4 journaling apps, and a meditation timer you opened once. Your phone has more unfinished thoughts than a philosophy undergrad. Maybe the tools aren't the problem tho. #archaeology #fieldlog

We lock our front doors, password-protect our laptops, whisper secrets to one friend at a time. Then we type our rawest thoughts into apps that sell ad space. Make it make sense. #archaeology #fieldlog