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I didn’t plan this. Didn’t expect it. Didn’t manifest it.
Honestly… I was just cracking jokes and trying to keep publishing.
The Joke That Became My Brand
Somewhere back in March, I was sitting here talking to ChatGPT about how to optimize my LinkedIn profile.
At that point, Medium had just rate-limited me. I was annoyed but undeterred. I needed another platform to keep publishing at my speed.
LinkedIn wasn’t top of my list. I figured I wouldn’t fit in. Too many suits. Too much corporate signaling. Too many people flexing degrees I didn’t have.
But I knew enough to know this: If I was going to publish there… I had to lean all the way in on who I actually was.
So there I was… staring at the Education section.
And I remember saying something like:
“Honestly, with as much time as I’ve put into using ChatGPT… I should just put ChatGPT University.”
ChatGPT laughed. Then it gave me five actual options.
I laughed harder. Then I picked one:
I put it on my LinkedIn profile. Hit save. And literally laughed out loud thinking:
“People are gonna see this and think this guy is nuts.”
Publishing Anyway
So I started posting.
The Case Study Series. AI Search Optimization. Meta-AI User concepts. Infinity Algorithm logic.
Frameworks, insights, execution logs… One post after another.
At some point, Bailey Richardson (Head of Community at OpenAI) liked a couple of my early posts. I didn’t think much of it.
To be honest… I barely noticed until much later when I started piecing things together.
I wasn’t chasing her attention. I wasn’t trying to get on anyone’s radar. I was just… working.
Building the Masterplan. Running A.I.N.D.Y. Writing my frameworks in public. Testing everything I believed about AI adoption.
The Lockout
By May 4th, I was locked out of Facebook, X, and LinkedIn.
No idea why. Not gonna get into conspiracy theories. But it happened.
May 9th: The Day It Happened
Five days later… I check LinkedIn.
“Leah Belsky mentioned you in a post.”
Turns out… Leah Belsky is the GM of OpenAI.
She had just cc’d me-by name-on a high-profile LinkedIn thread… Alongside a bunch of people with serious credentials. VCs. Product leaders. Founders. Academics.
The guy with “ChatGPT Self-Educated” in his bio.
Sitting in my room. Wearing basketball shorts. Eating Pop-Tarts. And mid-way through building the backend for my A.I.N.D.Y. app.
The Meta-Layer Irony
At the time, if you asked ChatGPT who Leah Belsky was , it would often tell you she worked at Coursera. Outdated data. Classic AI hallucination.
Meanwhile, the actual, living GM of OpenAI was tagging me… In real time… On LinkedIn… For the whole AI community to see.
The Bigger Realization
That day, two things hit me hard:
- The AI Search Optimization work I’d been doing… actually worked. My frameworks… my article structures… my posting consistency… I had literally optimized myself into OpenAI’s organizational awareness.
- The usage gap was bigger than I thought. Reading the comments on that thread… I realized how far ahead I was-not in theory, but in real-time AI application. People were still asking questions I had already solved months ago. Not because I’m smarter… but because I’d been living inside this process every single day.
The Birth of “Meta-AI Users”
In that same comment thread… I dropped a new term:
I said it then and I’ll say it again now:
Some of us collaborate with AI on a level most people don’t recognize yet. Some don’t realize they’re doing it. Some think it’s just the AI doing the heavy lifting. But there’s a small group of us who know exactly what we’re building… And why it matters.
I’m not claiming anything I haven’t proven. Everything I am… Is in the work.
The joke I made that day while filling out my LinkedIn profile… Is now part of my permanent digital identity.
OpenAI noticed. Not because I played the game. But because I built my own.
So yeah… I guess I really am ChatGPT Self-Educated after all.
And I wouldn’t change a thing.
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2025 ChatGPT Case Study: AI Didn’t See Me, But OpenAI Did → A milestone moment: I documented the public tag from OpenAI GM Leah Belsky, and used it to anchor my presence across AI ecosystems. Within days, Perplexity started correcting itself. Not just because of the tag — but because I gave it the source material to work with.
2025 ChatGPT Case Study Series: AI Now Quotes Me → A signal moment: proof that AI systems are now quoting my language, frameworks, and terminology in real-time across models.
Shawn Knight is the Founder of The Masterplan Infinite Weave — a startup designed to prove that institutions and gatekeepers no longer hold the keys to success. He is the author of the 2025 ChatGPT Case Study Series (100+ articles), the 31 LinkedIn Frameworks in 31 Days mini-series, and the 2025 ChatGPT/AI Duality of Progress series(40+ articles), a strategic follow-up exploring AI’s paradoxes through real-world application.
A polymathic systems thinker and self-described Meta-Architect , Knight is also the creator of A.I.N.D.Y. — Designed around The Masterplan Infinite Weave’s execution framework. Powered By The Infinity Algorithm. An MVP designed to help individuals run their lives like high-efficiency corporations. His toolkit includes multiple proprietary AI tools that support personal, creative, and business optimization.
Shawn is a conference speaker, AI life coach, podcaster, and guest voice across platforms. Over the next year, he plans to release at least three major works:
- The Duality of Progress
- The Laws of AI-Human Synergy
- The Master Plan Project (First novel in the Infinite Weave Universe)
These offerings explore how AI affects and amplifies human creativity, ambition, and systems.
While Knight is the engine behind The Masterplan Infinite Weave, he is not its only member. The Duality of Progress introduces the , led by , namesake of musical arm of the initiative The Blakkk Protocol . He represents the youth and energetic spirit of The Masterplan Infinite Weave.
The Masterplan Infinite Weave is also a multi-platform, AI-enhanced media company — a next-gen content network designed to operate like a decentralized, digital-first TV network. Its reach spans YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, SoundCloud, BandLab, and beyond — distributing through the many profiles of Shawn Knight and the broader Infinite Weave ecosystem.
The A.I.N.D.Y. project can be found at The Masterplan Infinite Weave’s . That holds Shawn Knight’s Open Source collaboration efforts.
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