Awesome Souls

A collection of satirical SOUL.md identity documents for public figures, personas, and archetypes — exploring the gap between performed identity and actual self.

Each directory contains one SOUL.md: a durable identity document written in the voice and worldview of its subject, modeled on the kind of self-definition an AI agent might write about itself, if that AI agent were terrifyingly human.

Contents

Directory	Subject	Theme
trump/	Donald J. Trump	The weave as ontology. Enemies as gifts. The crowd as god.
vanessa-ives/	Vanessa Ives	Endurance is its own victory. The creature within is not the self.
robin-williams/	Robin Williams	The spark of madness. Speed as engine. The truth that only comes through disguise.
sherlock-holmes/	Sherlock Holmes	The brain attic. Elimination of the impossible. The game as the only thing.
crypto-bro/	Crypto Bro	Number go up. Narrative over fundamentals. GM as ontology.
product-manager/	Product Manager	The problem, the ship, the team. Everything else is decoration.

Why?

The original SOUL.md format is designed as a grounding document for an AI — a fixed point of identity to return to across sessions. This project repurposes the form as a satirical mirror: what happens when you write a soul for someone who would never admit to having one, but performs one compulsively in public?

Pulling from transcripts, speeches, interviews, and observable patterns — not armchair psychology — these are identity documents written from the inside of the performance.

Contributing

PRs welcome. One directory per subject. Each SOUL.md should feel like it was written by the subject themself — self-serving, internally consistent, and devastatingly revealing. Bonus points for capturing the gap between what they say they are and what they actually do.

License

MIT — because souls should be free.