Al Harkan's Blog

My Written Thoughts on Media, Technology, and Everything in Between


How the University Lost Its Way

"The consequences of this college degree crisis are now painfully clear. We have a system where the cost of attending university has become a barrier to the very social mobility it is supposed to provide."

— 4 Sep 2025

Draft a Research Paper in One Minute

As a weekend project, I made an app that helps you rapidly iterate on research ideas, complete with a real bibliography. I call this app Outliner.

— 23 August 2025

Inztagram

When I learned that Claude could explain concepts neatly with illustrative diagrams, I knew I wanted an app that did exactly that. So, I built one.

— 27 May 2025

One Mindmap to Learn Anything

What if ChatGPT always answered in mindmaps? I made this app to help students & researchers read & understand any paper 10x faster. In its later iteration, it can now answer any question and process any URL.

— 6 April 2025

Enaiblr Search

I made a search engine —that helps you find the best AI tools on the Internet, to prove a point: AI has now enabled everyone to build apps on their own.

— 15 Nov 2024

The Quadrant of All Knowledge

Melihat realitas hanya dari satu sumbu, itu ibarat melihat hanya dengan satu mata. Bisa, tapi kita kehilangan kedalaman dan dimensinya. Karena pada dasarnya realitas itu kompleks dan utuh, tapi kita, melalui ilmu pengetahuan, yang mengotak-kotakkan.

— 03 Nov 2024

Llama Science Creator

Back in September, I took a small leap and signed up for a hackathon. I’m no developer by trade, but that’s exactly why I did it.

— 06 Sep 2024

Aspirasi Pendaftaran S3 di Indonesia

Kenapa biaya pendaftaran S3 di kampus dalam negeri bisa tiga kali lipat dibanding processing fee daftar ke NTU, misalnya. Lalu yang diunggulkan apa, kalau daftar lebih mahal, seleksi dipersulit, tapi kualitas kampus masih di bawah kampus-kampus luar negeri.

— 20 Jul 2024

AI Advancement for Research

One great promise of this technology in research is that we get to have our own assistant to handle tedious tasks, even report writing, So that researchers can allocate their time to more valuable work —observation, experiments, dissemination, etc.

— 10 May 2024

Lunturnya Legacy Careers

Kalau talenta berbakat cuma terkonsentrasi di sektor tertentu, kita bisa tebak gimana akhir ceritanya. Pendidikan, hukum, dan politik jadi tak dipimpin oleh mereka yang terbaik. Kita mulai melihat gimana gejalanya. Semuanya jadi komoditas, bukan kapasitas.

— 24 Mar 2024