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Workpost 58: Feeling out of time

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Recently I’ve been feeling immense pressure with the sensation that I’m somehow running out of time.

I feel a lot of frustration and anger in my chest.

I feel like I have no time anymore to work on the projects, and making progress in my own WordPress. I feel burning rage and frustration in my chest and stomach.

It might be the I am out of control wound.

I’m really angry at myself for procrastinating and not being able to get anything done.

Today I did come up with a really cool idea for an AI benchmark for:

  1. Creative writing
  2. Problem solving
  3. Research
  4. Contracts

I also feel overwhelmed. I feel like there is so much work to do, I don’t know where to start. I am overwhelmed. I am not able to deal with it.

I have a lot of projects I’m working on and it is scary to feel that I don’t know how to handle that.

I feel pressure because there are all difficult challenges that are important to me.

I failed big at succeeding in them…I’m so proud of myself!

This is a good thing. To fail big is to learn big.

The lessons are slowly being revealed.

The first question is…what did I need when I was in the overwhelmed state?

Well, I needed to feel the feelings, to be ok with just processing first.

After feeling the feelings to the fullest, what I need next is to find the courage in myself to face the challenge. To remember that I’m capable of anything.

And after feeling embracing the challenge, thinking tactically how I want to face it, and specifically, what small steps I want to take.

I want to take everything that I know as a small task and add it to my todolist. We will start there.

Workpost 69: Getting More Work Done

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One of the most recent realizations is that Valorant is meeting my need for significance maybe in a narcissistic way.

One of the ways that I can fulfill my needs and move on to getting more work done is by reassuring myself that even if I’m not getting better, even if I don’t win I am worthy, I am ok.

Today I really want to focus on getting all the contract work done but also visiting non-profits and getting more information about them.

If I can, I also want to be in good shape for jiujitsu and will probably need a bit of napping to get there.

Something else I was thinking about watching some podcasts about fighters today, when I go to jiujitsu, I go to learn and be really good at grappling and self-defense, but that’s not really my focus right now.

I’m really focused on my businesses, and in order to stay focused, I want to focus everything in my life on that.

This means jiujitsu is less about being good at grappling or fighting, but much more about being healthy, relieving stress, and getting a break from the computer.

I’m feeling kinda shitty right now trying to get past the lack of sleep I got today.

What I’m going to start out with is going to a nice place to work and get the basics done, then try to go to the gym and take a nap when I can relax my body enough.

After that, I’ll consider creating a focus for the day on what I want to complete.

Today I would like to work on my personal website.

I want it to reflect all the things that it represents for me:

  1. My workspace – messy creative space for me to work through things, sort of like akimbo
  2. A place that mirrors my coaching
    • Welcome to my house
    • Be patient
    • Take risks
    • Be ok with silence
  3. A workspace – sort of like profit in peace
  4. My way to be myself in a public way
    • If people stay, it helps me, if people leave, it helps me
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UNIT TWO: Processing pain + work (day 3)

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It was really easy to write in my notebook about my AI game.

Perhaps it will get harder when I actually try to code it.

I came up with the basic architectures.

Super Basic MVP Stack

  • Streamlit
  • Python vector db
  • Free MySQL

Production Stack

  • WordPress + NodeJS
  • AWS
  • VectorDB
  • MySQL

I also came up with a bunch of mini challenges that will help me get to the Basic MVP done.

Goals for the MVP are:

  1. Determine the overall AI technologies needed
  2. Come up with estimated overhead to run the game
  3. Raise money/interest

Mini Challenges for MVP:

  1. Create and pull from vector databases in python
  2. Work on data structures:
    • Story summary
      • Last 3 transactions
      • Story summary
      • Main objective
    • Geography
      • Locations
      • Lore
      • Physical properties
    • Characters
      • Stats
        • Age
        • Race
        • Health
        • Strength: A character’s physical strength, such as how much they can lift or punch
        • Dexterity: A character’s precision, agility, and nimbleness
        • Constitution: A character’s physical fortitude, such as how well they resist damage and disease
        • Intelligence: A character’s raw IQ and ability to learn
        • Wisdom: A character’s spellcasting ability
        • Charisma: A character’s spellcasting ability and saving throws
      • Location
      • Updates
      • Backstory
    • NPCs
      • Stats
      • Location
      • Backstory
      • Motivation
    • Relationship matrix
    • Time
  3. Visibility mechanism (to see who gets to see and interact with a new transaction)
  4. Overall prompt
  5. Story summary mechanism
  6. Query past with locations and time
  7. Develop multi session chat in streamlit
  8. Teach LLM examples
    • Battle
    • Non standard battle
    • Player enjoyment
    • Plot armor
    • Changing objective
  9. Map movement mechanics

Later development challenges:

  1. Explore invalid response resistance (create a way to repair responses)
  2. Explore cost-cutting and LLM selection
  3. Explore personality extraction (of NPC’s or characters)
  4. Explore context length restriction problem solving

Writing all this down I’ve come up with two steps moving forward:

  1. Even simpler MVP – completely prompt based
  2. After getting interest, develop simple MVP into NodeJS + frontend
  3. Then work on full final product
  4. Tool calls might be a gamechanger as well as vector databases

I’ve done it. I hit the wall of sinking dread, exhaustion, and boredom in this project.

I don’t want to create a DND game focused on storytelling with AI. AI just isn’t good enough, masterful enough, creative enough to create a rich world.

I want to focus on creating a game similar to the games I always wanted to create, focused on strategy and cool mechanics based in a system that allows for infinite creativity.

I need to create a system that builds a reality, not tells a story, and lets the player interface with it in a seamless way.

That means I’m adding a challenge:

  1. Think about how to allow for the user to have multiple inputs
    • Speech – what your character says
    • Action – what your character attempts to do
    • Question – what you want to ask the DM
  2. Separate the types of responses
    • Speech and actions get translated into story
    • Questions are responded to
  3. Think of how to use fewer words and show more
    • Character sheet
    • Map
    • Voice input and output

Also, I take back what I said, I can make a game on LLMs that tells a story, even though the thought of it makes me queasy in my chest for some reason.

I have then the challenges related to storywriting:

  1. Franklin’s elements of a story
  2. Dialog
  3. Emotion
  4. Character development and growth

Workpost 54: Processing More Emotions

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I feel strongly that my client will not value the work that I did.

I feel that he will say, “yea is this what you’ve been spending all your time on??? This is not what we need”. Then I will feel frustrated because it IS what we need.

I feel unseen, underappreciated, and misunderstood.

I feel uncomfortable in this room with someone else on the phone. I feel watched, judged, and disliked.

I am now realizing this is a time that I can let go of taking responsibility for others emotions. I can have faith in their abilities to process feelings themselves.

I’m feel numb buzzing fear in my heart and stomach. I feel a little trapped in my shoulders from feeling watched.

Maybe this guy is friendly, both of us clearly like to work. We are both trying to get something done. Maybe this is a warm environment after all.

Reframe: I get to work with people near me, I can get a little sense of community without having to talk

I worry about him being uncomfortable walking behind him or listening to his calls.

I feel fear in my stomach and trapped in my shoulders. I feel I am not safe.

Maybe his calls can motivate me to work on my stuff. I feel rejected, pain in my heart, fear of rejection.

Chase rejection, it will set you free.

With the feeling for my client, I feel deep painful fear in my heart and stomach. I feel a fear of rejection again.

Reframe: if I have a fear of being misunderstood, I can take this time to understand myself.

What I do is important because clarity will give a lot of direction and power to everything you do. Noone like to buy a confused product from a confused company with confused founders. Noone is passionate about a product that isn’t clear in its purpose with a company that isn’t clear on it’s purpose.

I want to be excited about this product and company. Excitement and passionate is the lever arm for work.

Inspiration is the lever arm for creativity. Purpose is the lever arm for fulfillment. Branding is the lever arm for product value. Vision is the lever arm for decision making.

Matches: Back to the Grind

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Match 1

Goals:

  1. To be fast and effective and efficient. What percentile do I fall in terms of the human potential for efficiency?
  2. To be able to see through problems in a genius like way. What percentile do I fall into for my perception?

Warmup ideas:

  1. Emotional processing on stress (5 min)
  2. Workout (5 min)
  3. Meditation (5 min)

Postwork Review:

  1. I was very calm and measured during this work. I also did not take breaks.
  2. Emotional processing, exercise and meditation are quite effective.

Grading:

Efficiency: 65% I think most people would be able to do what I was able to do but I suppose there were more steps than I thought and I was quite efficient at them.

Perception: 70% The task didn’t require insane perception until the very end where I did solve a problem really fast by realizing the problem.

Workpost 53: Time to Kick Into Gear

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It’s time to think through the plan for each of my businesses a little more carefully.

I want to spend 3 months setting up the funnel for each of my businesses and 3 months trying out and running the funnels.

Let’s breakdown what that looks like.

Art Coaching

Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total

What needs to be done for the funnel:

  1. Payment/banking systems
  2. How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
  3. Website
  4. Business cards
  5. Calendly
  6. Client contracts
  7. Mailing lists/CRM

General Aim: To make a beautiful creative world on my website, business cards, social media that reminds me of adventure, magic, and dreams

Next step for MVP…

3 day challenge – Make a mess

By the end of the challenge:

  1. Print out business cards
  2. Have a WordPress website with basic information on it
  3. Figure out how to do scheduling with Calendly

AI Consulting

Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total

What needs to be done for the funnel:

  1. Payment/banking systems
  2. How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
  3. Website
  4. Business cards
  5. Calendly
  6. Client contracts
  7. Mailing lists/CRM
  8. Branding
  9. New contract for funnel

General Aim: To create a place where business owners with the talent and potential can go to unblock their problems

Next step for MVP…

3 day challenge – Create website

By the end of the challenge:

  1. Website that clearly shows brand and services
  2. Clear way to schedule a consultation with me
  3. Be able to talk to local meetups