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43 from 26 Apr 2025 to 15 Mar 2026
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2026 5

  1. My Love-Hate Relationship with AI as a Solo Developer
  2. The Four-Tier System for Deep Focus: How to Structure Your Time Once Your Projects Are Sorted
  3. The Ancient Secret to Focus: Why Your Projects Stall (And How to Fix It)
  4. The Banana Test: How to Stop Overthinking Every Small Decision
  5. The Dogs Who Taught Me How to Live in the Present

2025 38

  1. From Reflection to Small Actions: The One Rule That Makes 2026 Resolutions Stick (Part II)
  2. What Stays When Everything Else Goes: My 2025 Reflection - Part I
  3. My 2025 Reading List: The Source Code Edition
  4. Seasons of Life: Why You're Not Supposed to Have It All Figured Out
  5. “Hopefully Soon" Is Killing Your Dreams: How to Start When Life Feels Too Messy
  6. How I Built a Company AI Assistant in 4 Days (Without Being an AI Expert)
  7. 5 Stoic Lessons from Marcus Aurelius That Actually Work
  8. 10 Classic Sci-Fi Audiobooks & Radio Dramas That Still Hit
  9. Do Nothing
  10. Why I’m Learning Sumerian, and What It Taught Me About Hard Work, Burnout, and the Joy of Doing Useless Things
  11. Why You Do It: The Four Words That Changed How I Make Every Decision
  12. The 1-2-3 Focus Method: A Simple Way to Beat Decision Paralysis and Finally Get Things Done
  13. What a Spider Taught Me About Resilience and Letting Go
  14. I Don’t Want to Be a Programmer Anymore: When AI Confidence Outshines Human Judgment
  15. Mind Maps vs. Commonplace Books: How to Capture Ideas and Turn Them Into Action
  16. The “I’ll Do It Tomorrow” Trap: Why Reinvention Can’t Wait
  17. The Delegation Paradox: Why Letting Go Is the Ultimate Productivity Hack
  18. The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Actually Works
  19. Follow the Spark, Borrow the Tools | MindTheNerd
  20. What Would Plato, Socrates, and Seneca Say About AI Today?
  21. 5 Tips to Stay Focused and Get Things Done (Plus a Bonus That Stops Procrastination)
  22. James Cameron’s 1984 warning in The Terminator is no longer just science fiction. AI weapons are moving from imagination to reality, and the danger is closer than we think.
  23. How Time Logging Helps You Regain Focus and Take Back Your Day
  24. Doing Hard Things: Why Struggle Alone Isn’t Growth
  25. What Plato Taught Me About Regret and Why It Changed My Life
  26. The 3mm Wake-Up Call: Why Small Choices Matter More Than You Think
  27. How Discipline Saved My Blogging Habit (Even from a Hospital Bed)
  28. AI Safety First: Inside Bengio’s LawZero Mission | MindTheNerd
  29. How to Know It’s Time to Quit Your Job: 3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Stay Too Long
  30. Hobbies: Your Brain's Favorite Productivity Hack
  31. 3 Books You Should Read Twice: Once in Your Youth, Again in Midlife
  32. The Curse of Creativity: Why Ideas Won’t Let Go
  33. 5 Surprising Ways Writing Became My Meditation Practice
  34. From Zero to Publishing a Blog – Part II | Mind The Nerd
  35. From Zero to Submission: How a Deadline Taught Me Video Editing Fast
  36. When Robots Take Over: Can Our Economy Survive the AI Job Revolution?
  37. Quantum Weirdness and the Limits of Human Understanding | MindTheNerd
  38. HyperX Cloud III Review: Affordable Audio That Surprises | MINDTHENERD.COM