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Three AIs Reviewed My Website. They All Found the Same Problems.
I ran one prompt through GPT-5 Mini, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Seed 2.0 Mini. They scored my website 7, 8, and 9 — and all found the exact same problems. Here’s what they agreed on, what surprised me, and the prompt you can steal to do this in 15 minutes.
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I’ve Published 100 Articles. Nobody Asked Me To. Here’s Why I Didn’t Stop.
I’ve now published 100 articles on a blog that took me 18 months to build from zero. Nobody assigned these. Nobody is waiting for them. Here’s the honest answer to why I kept going — and what I found on the other side of 100.
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I Gave My Life a Density Score. Here’s What the Number Revealed.
I built a tool to score how densely I’ve been living — not by productivity or achievement, but by my own definition of what a full life looks like. The score surprised me. Here’s the method and the result.
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How Many Times Will You See Your Aging Parents Again? I Did the Math.
If your parents are in their 70s and you see them twice a year, you might have fewer than 20 visits left. I built a calculator for this number. Here’s what happened when I ran it for myself.
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I Calculated How Much Time I’ve Wasted. Then I Stopped Feeling Guilty About It.
I spent an afternoon calculating exactly how much time I’ve wasted in my life — scrolling, procrastinating, going nowhere. The number was enormous. It also turned out to be beside the point.
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I Ran 25 Historical Life Simulators. Here’s the Decision Pattern That Keeps Showing Up.
After building 25 interactive life simulators for historical figures — from Darwin to Frida Kahlo — I noticed the same decision pattern in almost every life. Nobody saw it as a pattern at the time.
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The Stoic Daily Practice for Mortality Awareness: What Marcus Aurelius Actually Did
Marcus Aurelius ruled an empire and wrote privately about death every day. His practice wasn’t morbid — it was structural. Here’s what he actually did, and how I adapted it into a modern tool.
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I Asked 6 AI Models to Tell Me How to Spend My Remaining Years. None of Them Could.
I gave 6 different AI models my age, my situation, and a genuine question: how should I spend my remaining years? Not one of them answered. Here’s what I built instead.
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You Have 4,000 Weeks. I Mapped Out How History’s Greatest People Used Theirs.
Oliver Burkeman says you have about 4,000 weeks to live. I took 74 of history’s most remarkable people and mapped exactly how they used theirs. The patterns were not what I expected.
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Jeff Bezos Made One Decision Using a Simple Framework. I Built a Tool Around It.
In 1994, Jeff Bezos used a simple framework to decide whether to quit his Wall Street job and start Amazon. The framework works for any irreversible decision. Here’s how to use it.
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I Calculated Exactly How Many Summers I Have Left With My Son. The Number Stopped Me Cold.
I ran the numbers on how many summers I have left with my son before he’s gone. The answer was smaller than I expected. Here’s what I did with that information.
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Why I Built 25 Historical Life Simulators (And What I Learned About Decision-Making Along the Way)
I built 25 free interactive life simulators covering Einstein, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Frida Kahlo, and 21 others. This is the behind-the-scenes story of why, how, and what the process taught me about how historical decisions actually get made.
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Frida Kahlo Had 35 Surgeries and Painted All of It. She Said: I Never Painted Dreams — I Painted My Reality.
Bus accident at 18, 35 surgeries, 55 self-portraits, three miscarriages, and two marriages to Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo painted her own reality with medical precision. 8 interactive decisions.
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Dostoevsky Stood Before a Firing Squad at 28. The Pardon Came at the Last Second. What Would You Have Done?
Mock execution at 28, four years in a Siberian labor camp, gambling addiction, epilepsy, and Crime and Punishment dictated in 26 days to meet a debt deadline. 8 decisions from one of literature’s most extreme lives.
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Franz Kafka Told His Best Friend to Burn Everything. Max Brod Didn’t. What Would You Have Done?
Kafka worked at an insurance office by day and wrote at night. He asked his best friend to burn The Trial and The Castle. Max Brod didn’t. What would you have done? 8 decisions.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Resigned His Professorship at 34 and Wrote for an Audience That Didn’t Exist Yet. What Would You Have Done?
Nietzsche resigned from his professorship, broke with Wagner publicly, self-published books that sold under 100 copies, and collapsed in Turin at 44 in a mental breakdown from which he never recovered. 8 decisions.
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Sigmund Freud Made 8 Decisions That Built Modern Psychology — and One That Might Have Destroyed It. What Would You Have Chosen?
Freud advocated cocaine, abandoned his most controversial theory under pressure, wrote The Interpretation of Dreams to silence critics, broke with Jung, and fled Vienna at 82. 8 interactive decisions.
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Thomas Edison Had 1,093 Patents and Electrocuted Animals to Destroy a Competitor. What Would You Have Done?
Edison built the first R&D lab, lit up Manhattan, and then publicly electrocuted dogs and horses to make Tesla’s AC technology look deadly. 8 interactive decisions.
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Darwin Had the Theory of Evolution in 1838. He Didn’t Publish for 20 Years. What Would You Have Done?
Darwin had the theory of natural selection in 1838. He waited 20 years. His wife was devout. Then a stranger’s letter arrived with the same idea. He had 90 days. 8 interactive decisions.
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Isaac Newton Made 8 Decisions and Invented Calculus Before Age 26 — Then Spent 30 Years on Alchemy. What Would You Have Chosen?
Newton described gravity and invented calculus during a plague year at 22. He sat on it for 20 years. Then spent 30 years trying to turn lead into gold. 8 interactive decisions.