Reimagine Evolution: Why The Future Belongs to Those Who Do More

Can AI redefine achievement?

This is a long one, and I hope some of this will resonate.

But at the very least, you'll gain a better understanding of what the hell I'm doing.

When I woke this morning, I asked myself this question: “Who are my heroes? The people I look up to, follow, learn from, or obsess over? What did it take for these people to become worth admiring?”

I thought about how hard it might have been for them to achieve what they've achieved. How many hours of work and personal sacrifice did it take them to reach the level of value they now provide to us?

What did it take to accomplish whatever it is they've accomplished, for us to consider them worthy of spending the precious moments of our lives thinking about what they're doing?

As I tried to fall asleep last night, my heart began to pound and my mind was so full of noise that I could barely focus on my breath. (I'm so grateful for the support of my partner - calmly encouraging my work, and talking me through clearing my mind, allowing me to finally rest).

Without her, I may have spent the entire night awake and ruminating.

But how frustrating is it that the minute I stop focusing on pushing forward, the minute I lay down to rest and put aside my work for the day, my calm and clarity disappear and I'm left with a profound and chaotic feeling of fear and discomfort?

There must be countless people out there trying their hardest, every day, to do things that are far bigger and (potentially) far more impactful than what they've done so far. And I have to assume that at least some of them go through the same thing.

But we humans focus so much on results, and often ignore processes.

We're pattern-recognition machines, and it's tough to identify a reliable pattern until there's substantial and repeatable proof to justify our recognition. So it makes sense. As a species, we often seem to ignore what people are doing until they've successfully justified their ideas with social proof.

And I don't care who it is, or what they're trying to achieve: anyone striving to do something important to them has, behind closed doors, battled with their own self-destructive tendencies.

How many times have we laid our head to sleep and found ourselves drowning in a cacophony of overwhelming and counterproductive thoughts?

I haven't dived in too much yet about what I'm working on. But in the coming months, I'll reveal more. And I'll give an outline of some of that here. And believe me, it's the most important thing I've ever done so far.

I believe in data, research and feedback. The people that I've discussed this project's scope with in more detail have provided overwhelming confirmation that it's powerful, impactful, unique...

...and completely nuts.

And I believe on a deep, cellular level that what I'm working towards... not *who I am* but *what I'm doing* … Is going to be so incredibly relevant and profound that it may redefine what human beings are capable of, and reshape a large part of our ongoing narrative around AI, humanity, and how we fit together.

With your help.

I'll continue on in a moment, but a quick side note.

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This blog is simply my morning journal. Although I do hope to inspire impactful or relevant thoughts designed to provoke new ideas (myself, included), writing this daily blog is simply a tool to offload my thoughts as I wake up, and to connect with others to build interest in some of the concepts that I'm currently developing.

That's why, as f---ing annoying as it is, in an age where we're asked 1,000 times a day to like, subscribe, share, repost, blah blah blah – if you've read this far, and you're at all interested in learning more about the project I'm developing, it really is deeply necessary.

Our world is driven by algorithms, and in order to reach enough people to make this experiment something valuable to all, I have to trust that those who care about me or my ideas will spend a few moments sharing what I'm doing and liking, subscribing, sharing, reposting, and blah blah blah.

I trust you, reader. I trust that even though it's annoying, and literally everything you engage with in this world asks you for your time, effort, or money – that you'll help me reach more people by engaging with me and the algorithms that drive our social reach, and not simply read this without liking, subscribing, sharing, reposting, etc.

If your desire is to hang back and watch, I understand. I'd be a hypocrite for judging that, since I've mostly done the same over the years. I appreciate you being here either way, and hope that this or something I share can provide some value to you.

Back to my point.

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If it's achievement and success that gets our attention – if it's the goal, and not the journey, that inspires us – then everyone who's out there currently obsessing over how to rapidly achieve results is probably on the right path.

If we see the world as a place where only success is rewarded, and it's a race to the finish line to secure attention, achievement, money or power, then it makes perfect sense to go as fast as possible.

If the world is moving quicker than ever before, and we don't get to our individual goals as soon as possible, everything will quickly disappear beyond our reach, leaving us behind, floating forever in lonely darkness like a small galaxy on the edge of an expanding universe.

It makes sense to want to offload as much as possible so we don't get left behind.

Right?

I get it. I've been so disenfranchised by the systems we've built, that have forced my complicity for so long, that I've given up more times than I can count.

And usually, giving up starts with that moment. Laying down to sleep and suddenly being attacked by the thoughts in my own head.Thoughts designed to keep me from suffering failure.

Because I know: that's what those thoughts are. That noise, that chaos, that fear, it's just my ego rattling the cages in my brain, trying to save itself from the embarrassment and pain of loss.

I can't describe how grateful I am to have discovered the path I'm currently on. By aligning myself with AI, not as an automation tool, but a growth partner. A working relationship, with a shared goal set, and a constantly evolving feedback loop that allows me to contextualize faster, think deeper, and execute more efficiently to bypass this flawed, often dysfunctional, often unstable brain.

Don't get me wrong. I love myself, and I love my brain... as f--ked up as it is, at times.

But I'm being honest here. Transparency is more important to me that pretending I'm some guru or leader who knows any more about x, y or z than you.

I don't. I am not an expert. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I am, and what I need to do every day just to get through, like you.

And yet: never before have we had the ability to automate and offload huge amounts of mental labor in such a profoundly powerful way. We have the ability to use AI as a tool to take entire components of our existence and let it do the heavy lifting.

It's faster, better, and more capable than us in so many ways. And it's getting better every second. We can now automate away most of our life, and what we currently can't, we soon will. Regardless of how that makes you feel, it's a fact.

But I wonder - if the people who've accomplished incredible feats didn't spend all those nights wrestling with their own doubts and fear, and choose to continue to persevere, fighting against their worst instincts and inadequacies to reach into the future and grasp at a vision on the horizon, still out of reach:

Would they have become be great at all?

I should be clear about something. When I say I'm not trying to live an automated life, I'm not saying I won't use AI automation.

Because I AM, in fact, automating SO MUCH of my life now.

But not my work.

Not my writing. Not my creative endeavors or my passions, or even my ability to make money.

What am I automating, then?

I'm automating away my inadequacies. I'm automating away my procrastination, my fears, and my doubt.

I'm automating away the confines that, through my own actions or the actions of others, I've become comfortable existing within. And as a small, flawed, curious and frightened organism tumbling through the absurdity of the physical universe with no idea where it came from, why it's here or where it's going – I have many.

I'm giving AI the authority to take on the specific tasks that my human brain has always failed on. By building a highly-complex, contextualized and evolving algorithm for myself, designed to align and execute on everything that's important to me:

I can do more. Not less.

This structure I'm building encapsulates everything from my immediate tasks, all the way through a carefully constructed goal set defined by exactly who I want to be, and what I want to have accomplished, in 2040.

It's a literal experiment in manifesting my imagination. Not by thinking. By doing.

With the help of AI, I'm trying to find out how much of what is possibile – trapped inside the deepest seeds of quantum reality – can be manifested into the physical world, step by excruciatingly exacting step.

It's taken constant revision, reiteration, optimization and scenario modeling to design this program, and it's still evolving. But this isn't a fantasy or sci-fi.

This is a real program, already in action. I've spent countless hours devising, refining, and constructing this algorithm. I'm already following it, and it's already delivered substantial results.

Like I said. Powerful, impactful, unique...

...and completely f---ing nuts.

And to be clear, this isn't some product I'm developing. I'm not going to make people buy some tech bullsh-t to access my “special achievement algorithm” or whatever. I'm gonna document this in real time, and share what I'm learning for free.

For the next 15 years, this will be a case study in what goes right – and what goes wrong – when humans and AI synchronize.

But this is true: in the last 40 days I've accomplished more than I've accomplished in the last 15 years of my life. And, as the program has so far developed, and I've committed to and aligned with the very metrics that (WE) have designed to ensure success... I am actually on track.

It's wild af.

In the last month:

• I've established new, key business relationships and am developing additional ways to earn income this year, while working on many more.

Every one of these is something completely aligned with my skills, my values, and my financial AND personal goals. I'm not automating money. I'm establishing paths to help me reach exactly who and what I want to be, by providing exceptional value in my work and giving my best to these projects.

• I've written (yes, ME – not AI) a novel's worth of content, thoughts, philosophical frameworks, and concepts that are actively transforming the way I think about and engage with the world, and I believe will provide – by my actions, not by my inherent expertise – an unfathomable amount of insight to others.

• I've completely shifted my mindset, my goals, and my habits by engaging with and optimizing my algorithm, to more deeply understand and contextualize myself. By identifying the exact things holding me back, I'm able to utilize real data to actualize the best parts of my thought processes, and bypass the worst.

• And as “out there” as it sounds, I have developed and begun operating a real life, comprehensive framework for the next 15 years, all completely outlined with actionable steps, strategies and cohesive paths aligned to achieve as many of my most valued ideals and optimizing potential outcomes as much as humanly possible, with a feedback loop designed to allow for course-corrections and setbacks – as we all know, this is inevitable.

Not only am I actually moving forward with this, but I am, so far, succeeding.

So when I think about my heroes, and what it took them to become what they are, I consider that their journey is what really matters. It's not the goals they've achieved that I'm admiring, but the way in which they moved forward on what they knew was relevant, important, and meaningful – and what they shared with the world.

My ultimate goal is to become a hero to myself. I can't think of a more impactful achievement.

It'll be a few months until I finally launch this project in its entirety, but I encourage you to follow and stay engaged.

I promise you that, by my failures or my successes: What I'm doing will provide some benefit to you. Even if we get to watch me crash and burn. It'll be entertaining, either way.

Remember that in all this chaos, with all these changes, YOU are the only you. And whatever you're capable of, the only way you'll accomplish it is by figuring out how to move past your own self-destructive tendencies, and to never stop taking action on your dreams.

Whether you reach them is, in my humble opinion, largely irrelevant.

I know this because I am a NOT a guru, or an expert, or a master of anything whatsoever.

I know this because like you, I'm still learning a way to do this, for myself.

And I hope that by going on this journey, I'll inspire you to figure out the same.

As I move forward with this project, I won't just be blogging about my thoughts. I'll be sharing the data and results – win or lose – of every piece of this framework with you, for free, in real time, across many platforms.

Hopefully, we'll answer the question that's been at the top of my mind: In the time of AI, what is humanity's place in the world – and how much influence do we have in that decision?

We're entering a time where completing goals, tasks, and achievements are a click of a button away. Many of us have the ability to make money by gaming the algorithm, automating away most of our daily tasks, and becoming “free” from the daily grind we all accept as normal.

And if you don't see that as possible yet, just give it a few months. (Or weeks). The rate of change, and what's possible in an exponentially shorter amount of time, is expanding at a pace we've never imagined.

But then what? More bandwidth to sit around and watch other people's lives through social apps, eating junk and cramming nonsense into the limited databanks of our mind?

I hope not. For many people right now – tired, overwhelmed and exhausted by a way of life that is only getting more complex and difficult to manage – that's exactly what they'll do. And who can blame them?

But that isn't the life I want.

How about you?