I achieved something big today! Yesterday I got an idea that I'd take my cheap second-hand road bike I bought two months ago and do 100K distance today. And I did it! Even though my mind was trying to convince me that I need a special workout plan, more preparation and how bad and imperfect my approach is. I'm in the process of solving perfectionism with my therapist and this bike became a great lab for me to practice what I learned about myself, the root cause of my problems and how to stop it when it's kicking in. Because perfectionism in combination with seeking validation and acceptance from others is the reason I turned successful online projects into failure. I've been working on servicing it and upgrading patiently past many weeks, without my typical intense, hyper focused, quick burnout approach. Waiting for stuff from Ali or finding good second-hand deals. Learning everything on the go, not being afraid and paralyzed I'll make a mistake. And I finished complete groups upgrade on Friday and together with today's trip it feels so good! I hope to use this new, healthy way in this online space to build things someday. But now let me lay down for the rest of the day... 😅 P.S. My previous PR was 46 kilometers, and I'm still processing that I really made 100!

Today is the 965th day of practicing the 4-7-8 breathwork before sleep. It helps me not only fall asleep but also when I wake up in the middle of the night. Usually works like magic. On rare occasions, it doesn't work when I'm super stressed. I need to learn this eye movement technique and see if it will help on those nights.

I would say that if you're an experienced developer who is reading and analyzing the code, then definitely I agree. However, if you treat the code as a black box, double-checking is something you actually need.

welp

Astra usage is a complete disaster.

People seem to be very uncomfortable with @marclou putting ads on his body, but for me it seems quite normal. Now I realize, that already years ago I had already seen it on this guy here in Poland. Probably that's why the idea didn't bother me at all. And I think we will see more of this because of Marc ;)

Dang it! My post went viral after they retired rev sharing program, and the new one isn't counting impressions from the time before joining. :(

Okay, let's wrap up the strangest viral post I’ve ever made. 1.5M views in 24 hours AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MADE IT TAKE OFF! Seriously! Let me tell you the story behind the post. There’s some depth to it on a very personal level. I hadn't watched Apple keynote since the iPhone 12 I guess. It was so repetitive and boring for me. Plus I couldn't afford any of those new toys. But this year was different. Not because I could afford anything new, but because the constant rumors of a foldable iPhone had been nudging me for the last couple of months. So when the time came, 7 PM in my time zone, I started to watch it but almost immediately started zoning out. I shifted my attention away from the pompous yapping and onto all the details I could find. At the beginning, there was this empty corridor with a glass wall and greenery outside. I looked at the trees, I looked at glass reflections and not having anything else to look at, I started to look at John Ternus' Apple Watch. I noticed it was something like 10:10 and there was nothing suspicious about that initially. However when they switched to another scene, the time didn't change at all. The presenter changed. Still the same time. I completely immersed myself in looking at each person’s wrist to see whether the time changed by even one minute. No. Zero. Since one guy had a digital watch face, I knew it was 10:09. Then I noticed this time on the iPhones they were showing, and for the entire hour I was wondering why the heck all the devices showed the same time. That drove me crazy, especially when they finally presented iPhone Duo. Son of a biscuit! 9:41... All devices with 10:09 and then the final one with a completely different time. But I got focused on the device itself, then started searching for real life YouTube videos and forgot about this time thing. The next day around noon, I remembered it and thought - let's put Astra to work. Let’s see how many times 10:09 appeared in the keynote. I knew it was a stupid waste of tokens and time, but I let myself do it. And this is where we go into a deeper level of my being. My entire life, over 40 years, without even knowing, I always had to do the right things. Smart things. The best things. Perfect things. Everything had to put me in the position of being someone worth something. Every minute of my life, I was seeking validation. I was seeking proof that I deserved good things. That I deserved a good life. That I deserved to be alive in this world. I had no idea that what I went through as a kid was abuse, or that my basic needs weren’t being met. I received a clear message in different forms - you're not good enough. You have to try harder. You have to earn the right to be loved, liked and welcomed. By family and peers. So I did try hard. Burnout after burnout. Business after business. Project after project. Whenever I got traction, I searched for a message that would tell me I was finally worth something. But it never arrived. The people who mattered most to me, just like when I was a child, were always focused on pointing out what wasn’t good enough by their standards. Or if they liked something, they passed their fears on to me. So I even dumped successful projects. I was trapped in this horrible, never-ending cycle, until I cut them out of my life. And this made space for healing, discovering who I am and growing as a man. I'm still in this process now, 2 years later, but the last few months have brought the biggest shift. Almost every week brings new lessons, new discoveries. And today is that special day when I discovered that I can be stupid. I can do stupid things. And this is what I did yesterday. I let myself do a stupid thing. Escaped this prison of thinking I have to use tokens for something valuable and responsible, something that needs to lead to something serious. I asked damn GPT-6 to count all those silly 10:09s in the video. It made a compilation for me and I just posted it here on X thinking: "Look at me, how stupid I am. I wasted tokens on some nonsense." I posted it expecting crickets, but @nickgraynews and @smitmartijn responded with some comments (thank you guys!!!) and I forgot about it for the next few hours. But when I came back I saw it getting more and more views and likes. And until now, I had no idea exactly why, but as I was writing this, the answer came to me. It took off to tell me it's good to do silly things in life. Not everything has to be carefully calculated out of fear of making a mistake. I can be stupid and you can too. It's ok! That's the story behind this viral post.

Crazy thinking... It's a genius move to not only increase his personal brand awareness, strengthen it, but position all future sponsorship deals/projects higher. And on top of that having a lot of fun and sense of accomplishment with the progress as an athlete.

Can someone explain to me why people see F1 drivers covered in ads as completely normal, but indie hacker competing as an athlete in HYROX with ads is seen as a clown?

I just burned Astra tokens on this lol I kept spotting 10:09 everywhere during the Apple keynote, so I asked GPT-6 to put together a compilation. 50 shots. All showing 10:09. Then comes the iPhone Duo with 9:41. Anyone have a clue why?

I don't see any particular improvements to my setup, instead Astra is burning limits like crazy. For me Pro plan lasts one weekend.

Back to sol 5.6. I can't afford AGI.

FOMO is real 😅

Doomsday

Hey UX/UI designers, your job is safe!

Who remembers this screen? Are you still alive?

Even plumbers are cooked because of AI. I got stuck during fixing the toilet today, and ChatGPT directed me flawlessly what and how to do it.