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• How often do you use your time machine?

  Published:Feb 21, 2025

  Did you know that you have a time machine?

  It is hidden in tiny moments.

  A small hand in yours, a whispered stay.

  Blink and you are decades ahead, longing for the now you once rushed through.

  That is real time travel.

  Gratitude lifts you out of the everyday grind and drops you back into what really counts.

  The dishes will wait.

  The emails will still be there when you return.

  When you slow down just for a moment, you warp reality.

  Your 90 year old self is cheering you on, begging for a taste of this present.

  So be present.

  Because it is not just about bedtime routines.

  It is about catching the moments we usually let slip by.

  Cherishing today is not a luxury.

  It is a superpower.

  And the future rewards those who remember to live fully while it is still called now.

  
  

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• Tall tale sign of an amateur

  Published:Feb 18, 2025

  The biggest clue that someone is an amateur? They have a million plans, and they all start tomorrow.

  • Steven Pressfield

  Amateurs collect big ideas like they’re trophies on a shelf.

  Yet day by day, that shelf never empties.

  Pros pick one plan and do it now, even when it’s messy.

  They start at zero and build something real.

  Tomorrow is safe, but safe rarely moves the needle.

  Jump in, ready or not, and watch how quickly you stop being an amateur.

  
  

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• The front row is everything

  Published:Feb 17, 2025

  In the race for attention, the front row is everything.

  Getting there fast is like grabbing the best seat at a huge concert right before the band appears.

  We launched a new site and scored first-page status on Google in three days for one of their keywords.

  The trick is that we focused on the right thing, low volume, high intent keywords.

  People assume it takes months to climb.

  Go for the low hanging fruit first.

  That’s how you jump the line.

  Sometimes the best path isn’t the biggest stage.

  It’s the right stage.

  Focus where it counts, and you’ll find yourself at the front faster than you ever thought possible.

  Because in every race for attention, the best seat goes to those who know exactly where to look.

  
  

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• Pronoia

  Published:Feb 14, 2025

  What if the universe has your back?

  Most of us trudge around, heads down, braced for bad news.

  We assume there’s a hidden trap waiting.

  That’s paranoia.

  But imagine there’s a gentle current nudging you forward instead.

  That’s pronoia, the radical notion that life conspires to help you succeed.

  It’s like an invisible tailwind on a cross-country bike ride, pushing you farther than you thought you could go.

  Here’s the secret: pronoia isn’t wishful thinking.

  It’s a choice.

  It’s deciding to see open doors instead of locked ones.

  And once you do, you notice more of them.

  You feel the breeze, you catch the wave, you discover an entire world that’s been rooting for you all along.

  Try it for a day.

  Assume that every stranger is a potential friend, every setback an invitation to level up.

  Because here’s the truth: when you expect good things, you build a world where they actually happen.

  
  

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• The Truth Inside the Lie

  Published:Feb 13, 2025

  Some promises aren’t broken, they’re just unfinished.

  A leader declares, “The war will end in a day.”

  A founder says, “This product will change everything.”

  A dreamer insists, “This time will be different.”

  From the outside, they might look like lies.

  Bold claims that didn’t come true.

  But maybe they weren’t meant to deceive.

  Maybe they were meant to ignite.

  Because progress starts with belief.

  The people who change the world don’t always get the timeline right.

  But they set something in motion.

  They create momentum.

  They make the impossible seem possible, even if it takes longer than expected.

  Yes, words have weight.

  But so does intention.

  So does action.

  Speak with conviction.

  Follow through.

  Adjust as you go.

  The only real lie is giving up before the truth has a chance to catch up.

  
  

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• The Cake is a Lie (But the Work is Real)

  Published:Feb 12, 2025

  Every great project starts with a ridiculous idea.

  A rogue-like autobattler where you fight for the entertainment of a cosmic being made out of Cake? Silly. Absurd. Unreasonable.

  And yet, here I am, breaking it down into code, systems, mechanics, AI decision trees, and a hundred tiny tasks that—if we’re lucky—come together to form something people want to play.

  Because the idea is never the hard part. The work is.

  The work is taking a massive, vague, ambitious thing and slicing it into bite-sized, doable chunks. The work is giving an AI a structured prompt instead of an open-ended wish. The work is waking up, opening your laptop, and solving just one problem today.

  And when you get the process right—when you embrace the grind, when you trust the framework—you realize something:

  The cake doesn’t matter. The system that gets you there does.

  That’s the secret to building anything: You don’t chase the cake. You build the bakery.

  And then, one day, you look up and see a game, a business, a dream—fully baked, sitting right in front of you.

  
  

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• Automation

  Published:Feb 4, 2025

  What I’ve been doing lately for clients is automating their workflows.

  ChatGPT released Operator and it is a game changer, but it requires another AI to control it to be useful, more on that soon.

  Using Operator made me realize that I could automate away a lot of menial tasks that my clients have.

  An example is adding alt descriptions to images on a WordPress site.

  I wrote a script that takes all the images in a WordPress post and adds the alt descriptions to them.

  It does the following:

  1. It uses playwright and navigates to the media library
  2. Then it clicks on edit on the first image
  3. Uploads it to Gemini
  4. Gemini generates the alt description
  5. Playwright inserts that alt description into the alt text field
  6. It clicks on update
  7. And then moves onto the next image
  
  

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• The Tale of the Chinese Farmer

  Published:Feb 3, 2025

  Whenever anything bad happens in life we are quick to think of it as a tragedy.

  But is it?

  Here is the tale of the Chinese farmer that will help you understand that.

  Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”

  The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.” The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”

  The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  — Alan Watts

  
  

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• Being Smart Doesn't Protect You From Brainwashing

  Published:Feb 2, 2025

  Being impervious to persuasion isn’t about raw intelligence or common sense, but about recognizing and understanding the mechanisms behind how persuasion and hoaxes are manufactured.

  Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, explains it well on his daily livestream:

  Being able to be free from persuasion is a specific skill.

  It’s not a general intelligence thing at all.

  In fact, general intelligence works against you; you’re easier to fool.

  Dumb people are harder to fool sometimes because they’ll say, “Hey, you smarty pants, looks like you’re trying to pull something on me.”

  “Why do you say that?”

  “I don’t know. I just don’t trust you.”

  “But what do you see that’s tipping you off?”

  “Don’t need to see anything.”

  “I just don’t trust you, and you’re going to be right.”

  So the low IQ person who says, “I just don’t trust you,” ends up being right, and the smart person says, “Let’s look at all the facts and the details by reading The New York Times.”

  “But I’ll cross-check it with CNN to make sure, and—oh—they both got it right.”

  “It looks like they agree. I guess that’s true, so now I’ll act like Trump is Hitler because CNN and…”

  “You know, being smart isn’t helping you.”

  It just is a different skill than understanding persuasion.

  So you can see the mechanism—you have to be able to see the machine.

  If you can’t see the mechanisms of the machine, the machine owns you.

  But once you learn enough about how it’s done—such as learning how a ‘rupar’ is done, learning how incentives work, etc.—once you realize how the machine works, it just sort of materializes in front of you.

  When a new hoax comes out, you go, “Oh, that just came out of that hoax machine,” and then you’re immune.

  But you’ve got to see it.

  You can watch him talk about it here: https://youtu.be/miIAXqb9tq4?si=LGUHPT_Iq9LCphI_&t=1925

  
  

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• Current Productivity System

  Published:Jan 14, 2025

  I’ve used dozens of productivity systems over the years.

  The one I’m currently using has been working well for me.

  I write down everything I want to do in a quarter on a list in Notion.

  I pin that to my favorites and I can see it all the time.

  Then I have a page that is simply called “To do”.

  Each week, I create a new page in my “To do” page that has everything I need to get done that week according to my quarterly list.

  I also update this page throughout the week as clients have new requests.

  Whenever I’m in “working time”, I just look at my list of things to do that week and do them.

  Simple.

  
  

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