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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.
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Leonardo da Vinci Made 8 Decisions and Left 7,000 Notebook Pages Unfinished. What Would You Have Chosen?
Da Vinci had 7,000 notebook pages and fewer than 20 finished paintings. He kept the Mona Lisa for 16 years. An interactive simulator puts you inside his 8 most consequential decisions.
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Beethoven Made 8 Decisions While Going Deaf and Wrote His Greatest Music Anyway. What Would You Have Chosen?
Beethoven hid his deafness for years, wrote a suicide note he never sent, scratched Napoleon’s name off a symphony, and conducted the 9th completely deaf. 8 interactive decisions.
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Mozart Made 8 Decisions That Defined His Short, Brilliant Life. What Would You Have Chosen?
Mozart was a child prodigy who broke from his patron, married against his father’s wishes, and died at 35 writing a Requiem commissioned by a masked stranger. 8 interactive decisions.
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Nikola Tesla Made 8 Decisions That Changed How the World Uses Electricity. What Would You Have Chosen?
Tesla invented the AC motor, tore up a $12 million royalty contract, and died broke in a hotel room. An interactive simulator puts you inside his 8 most consequential decisions.
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Vincent van Gogh Made 8 Decisions That Changed Art History. What Would You Have Chosen?
Van Gogh sold one painting in his lifetime, produced 900 works, and died at 37. An interactive simulator puts you inside his 8 most consequential decisions — before revealing what he actually did.
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Free HSK 1-3 Anki Deck Download — 401 Words, Dual Cards, No Ads
If you are learning Mandarin and not using Anki, you are leaving the most effective memorization tool on the table. Finding a good HSK deck — complete pinyin, example sentences, proper formatting, no broken media — is harder than it should be. So I built one. Four decks, 401 words, free download, no account required.…