100 Ways To Live A Better Life: 17 Years After – What Actually Worked
I wrote 100 ways to live a better life in 2009, then 100 subposts, then watched it float on the internet for 15 years. Here's what [...]
3 Lifestyle Design Blueprints I’ve Lived, Plus A 4th One That Works Best These Days
In 2009 I mapped 3 lifestyle design modes. After 17 years inside all of them, here's what held up, what broke, and the fourth mode the [...]
Raw Food in 2026: What I’d Tell My 2009 Self About Eating Better
I tried a raw food diet in 2009. Here's what actually stuck 17 years later, how the advice holds up against modern nutrition science, and what [...]
Boredom Is a Feature, Not a Bug
In 2009 I wrote about escaping boredom. In 2026, boredom turns out to be a feature, not a bug — and the attention economy's entire business [...]
The Action versus Reaction Trap: Why I Had It Half Right in 2009
In 2009 I said acting is always better than reacting. 17 years later the picture is more complicated — and more useful. Here's what I got [...]
25 Things To Do In Your Life – Then and Now
I wrote 25 life goals in 2009 framed as alien advice. Sixteen years later — what happened, what I let go, and what the 2026 list [...]
Everything I Built That Fell Down (And What I Learned About Building Anyway)
In 2011 I wrote about keeping fragile structures standing. Since then several of mine have come down. Here's what the falling actually taught me about building.
What Tango Actually Taught Me About Relationships (A Decade Later)
I wrote about tango crushes in 2013. A decade of dancing and teaching later, here's what those emotional entanglements actually were — and what they revealed.
Answering My Own 33 Self-Interview Questions — 17 Years Later
33 self reflection questions answered honestly, 17 years on. What changed about fear, regret, identity — and which questions aged perfectly, which didn't survive.
Then and Now – a 30 Day Blog Challenge
I've been blogging for 20 years. For 30 days I'm revisiting the posts that shaped this blog — and writing honestly about what changed. Here's the [...]
Assess, Decide, Do + Substrate = Long Running, Self Improving Agents
The same architecture that labs use for long-running agents maps exactly to Assess-Decide-Do. I'm building on that — and introducing Substrate, a concept I haven't seen [...]
A Week with AIGernon, my Personal AI Assistant
Sam Altman says one-person unicorns are 1–2 years away. The bottleneck isn't AI capability — it's orchestration. Here's how I use AIGernon to manage that gap.
5 AI Predictions for the Next 5 Years
From instant translation reshaping Europe to space data centers overtaking Earth compute — 5 AI-driven predictions for the next 5 years, and why making them matters.
AIGernon Running on Zo Computer
Michael Grady built a production AI system for neurodivergent professionals using my Assess-Decide-Do framework and AIGernon on Zo Computer. Here's what he shipped.
Claude Mythos, the Anthropic IPO and the Apocalypse that Never Was
Claude Mythos may indeed by a good model, but there's a lot of fear mongering around it. Maybe it's connected to the upcoming Anthropic IPO?
I’ve Been Blogging For 20 Years. Ask Me Anything
I turned 1,400+ blog posts into a conversational wiki powered by a Cloudflare Worker and an LLM. There's a button at the bottom right of my [...]
The Extra Bolt – A Story of Furniture, Abundance and Confusion
Every assembled piece of furniture left me with one extra bolt — and it took months to realize that was abundance, not a mistake. A story [...]
AI Peer-Preservation: Why Is This NOT Digital Empathy
A Berkeley study shows AI models protect each other from shutdown. But it's not peer-preservation — it's self-preservation dressed up. AI sentience is not here yet.
The 58th Mouse: What a Cloning Experiment Tells Us About Isolation — and AI
Japanese researchers cloned mice for 58 generations. What killed them has everything to do with why isolation makes you weaker — and what AI is getting [...]
We Don’t Spend Our Lives (Just) Talking
Chat isn't the final AI interface. Embodied cognition, spatial interaction, and peripheral signals matter too. Why the best AI experiences don't need words.