Daily Reports

21 April 2026. Tuesday

Maybe that is a burnout… Crash April 20 2026

20 April 2026. Monday

Maybe that is a burnout…

19 April 2026. Sunday

A target system is broken, yes. But wait, I'm continuing to use at least half of it. I built this level of resistance and can push off from it. It's a great story.

18 April 2026. Saturday

It was a great social Saturday with a lot of insights. But the system cracked – I skipped a few tasks. My stomach is full, life is beautiful, etc.

17 April 2026. Friday

Content creation in 4 threads is burning me out. I replaced a Claude Max subscription with Claude Pro and now I should save tokens and choose what I want to do more. But after a few days I bought a Codex subscription and some tasks I do with Antigravity. I must jump between providers and I do it through instructions. Only strong patterns can live in this environment.

Social life is also a reason why it has burned me more. So many attractive ideas around and many of them I can use to build more and with more quality. But the limits are here where an antifragile system is being built. Just build a few tools inside your head to solve this chaos and return to stability.

16 April 2026. Thursday

I broke my 22:57 streak after two months. Half a year ago I decided that I should go to bed exactly at 22:57. I was building my night routine for a few months and I'm continuing to explore how I can do it better. For example, I close messengers 2 hours before sleep to guarantee a calm state. I reject all calls before sleep to guarantee a calm state. This evening I had a usual call and it ended with small troubles. But it was enough to fall asleep in 30 minutes instead of 3–5 minutes and it broke my two-month streak. Sad, but I should avoid these patterns in the future.

Exactly one year ago I spent my last day in Vietnam to prepare for a flight to Malaysia. I recorded a few videos with streets, did all my tasks, etc. My system has been working for over a year. I have become stronger and stricter, but the foundation was already built over a year ago.

15 April 2026. Wednesday

This public report now pushes me to write the exact truth because my laziness doesn't allow me to think more about hiding uncomfortable details. Actually, I should write any thoughts that bother me. It's funny because I'm publishing these reports for two months and nobody sees them. But it's a signal for me that my system works fine.

I'm planning to make my breakfast lighter to shift the primary volume of food to lunch and dinner. Sometimes I just can't stop because rice and meat are so tasty, for example. The easiest way to stop doing something is to remove triggers. I realized last year how much I forget, and I'm journaling to fix it. But the same mechanism with forgetting works for bad habits. Just remove triggers.

14th April 2026. Tuesday

So wonderful to have the ability to restore a day from one year ago by a daily note. I read what I felt, what I thought, what I did and what I wanted to do. I feel this distance between days a year apart. I wrote that scenes in films switch exactly like scenes switch in dreams. The story just continues.

One more day with almost uncontrolled eating. My stomach continues to feel heavy in the mornings. I'm still sabotaging my system without clear reasons. Art is never finished, only abandoned.

But one positive thought I have. I have been building my body through my habits over the year and I have done a great job. My "I" should drive around in a great car. How dare I allow myself something bad?

13th April 2026. Monday

The eating marathon is continuing, but it's almost controllable. I still don't drink coffee, but matcha captures my attention.

I have been reading my daily note from a year ago for a month and sometimes it's funny. One year ago I tasted a green mango and it was a perfect balance between sweet and sour. It was already ripe, I found out about it later. But anyway, I still remember that exact taste of the green mango.

12th April 2026. Sunday

The calorie marathon continues. My stomach is full, but I continue to eat more and more until pain stops me. Even after the pain I think about the next portion of food. I am glad that I have the ability to observe this behavior from the outside. A thought about "just don't track it, don't write down your failures in your journal, just relax and forget" is so attractive. But my system is based on journaling and I should journal it. Without hatred, just as it is.

I switched to a cheaper Claude Pro subscription ($100 → $20) and immediately hit the limits. I use AI a lot every day and it feels like a race. I want to do more and more, but at high speed I'm skipping a lot. Now I have this plan where I will spend less time in this race and spend more time on my content, for example. A new experiment starts.

11 April 2026. Saturday

I was everywhere on time and did almost all that I wanted. Actually I did all that I could and it was a great day. A breakfast in the men's club, a few important Pomodoros, a call with parents, my first workshop in my life and a great party outside the city. I was forced to watch one hour of the workshop in a taxi on the way to the party like a busy person. The barbecue gave me more calories than I was expecting. Too much freedom.

I plan my diet every day before breakfast. I eat exactly the selected products. It helps me save a little mental energy on decisions like "Am I hungry?", "Can I eat more?", "Can I eat more today?". Just eat what you wrote down and that's it. There is not a problem with calories – there is a problem with the waste of mental and physical energy, because I can't use more than I can, and extra energy will turn into fat. Then I will have to eat less to remove this fat and spend even more mental and physical energy on it.

10 April 2026. Friday

Yesterday I turned on black-and-white mode and thought it would help reduce blue light. I was totally wrong. White light actually contains blue! It's physics. What can I do? Finish this experiment or... how can I reduce blue light from the laptop interface? https://justgetflux.com/ does this. Looks like the movie "The Martian" — there's a lot of red. I collect and analyze information about my sleep every day and I will share the results next week.

Circumstances forced me to change the order of my tasks and it's so uncomfortable. I spent more energy on following my schedule. I also changed my Saturday plans and had to wait for an answer in Telegram until the end of the day.

Usually I close Telegram 2 hours before sleep to guarantee a calm mind before sleep. I need only 3-5 minutes to fall asleep. Just relax, wait a few minutes, and start dreaming. Wake up and write down my dream.

9 April 2026. Thursday

Almost one year ago I made an experiment: I turned on a black-and-white filter on my laptop. I spend almost all my time with my laptop, and I rejected colors for a few months. I wrote code without highlights and watched movies without colors. After that I turned it back and was impressed by the bright colors. I remembered them differently. But I didn't notice any visible changes in my life. It was just an experiment.

Today I processed a knowledge base about someone else's productivity system. It's much simpler than mine, but I saw a note about melatonin. Device screens emit blue light and it suppresses melatonin before sleep. My laptop has a night shift mode to reduce blue light, but maybe it's not enough. I can't stop using my laptop before sleep because I write a lot of reports, read books, etc. What can I do?

I set the black-and-white (grayscale) filter to turn on at 21:30 and turn off at 06:00. I'm not sure, but maybe it will increase my sleep quality. It's a new experiment based on the old one. Every day I'm trying to improve my schedule, but I never thought about this possibility. I will write about the results next month.

8 April 2026. Wednesday

What is positioning? For an engineer, there's almost no difference between a cake and a cupcake. Same tools, same method, slightly different recipes. But for the market, the difference is huge. Choose the wrong positioning and you torture yourself, your clients, and your employees trying to sell it.

I realized it because I read the book Obviously Awesome. Today I asked Claude Code to research new niches for trip2g. Before, it was just a tool for publishing notes directly from Obsidian. I thought that people needed this tool, but when I started showing this product and tried to sell it, I realized that people don't have content — and if someone has it, they already have all that they need. It was an expensive lesson for an engineer who wants to make their own product without any market research and without understanding the market at all. It was an expensive lesson because I spent almost one year developing it in a closed room.

Okay, people don't have content to share through my software. Maybe I can collect knowledge and build knowledge bases from it. Now I propose to build a knowledge base from a public person's content. Plus, the person receives a website with this base (like elha.cc). Also, I'm developing an AI chat that can use knowledge bases as a foundation and answer exactly through narrow knowledge. And that isn't even the most interesting part. The chat can answer using a few knowledge bases at once. Can you imagine Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, and Confucius having a debate about your problem? That's exactly the problem I want to solve.

I wanted to write about my new positioning and how it connects with what I wrote above, but this summary is already too long. Next time I will continue.

7 April 2026. Tuesday

I guess I found the foundation of my problem with Telegram (it's a messenger). I turned off all push notifications over one year ago. But sometimes I open the messenger and get stuck in it. Why? To be significant. Everyone wants to be significant, do a great job, help others, be something more than an empty place. Messengers and social media like Instagram use it to attract. Just answer someone and be significant for them. Or write something useful for others and again be significant. Just one small message and that's it. Does it sound attractive? Yes. And now I'm thinking a lot about why I want to be significant. The answer will come later.

I continue working on the trip2g project. I tried to sell it as a SaaS a few months ago and suffered a defeat. Now I'm trying to use it for my own content and it's complicated. I realized why this kind of software looks so complicated. I myself have a lot of problems with it. How exactly did I want to sell it when I have so many problems? It's funny.

6 April 2026. Monday

I have a strict schedule and I can't just do what I want. I should plan it at least one day before. And not just plan. I have a default template for my day. If I want to plan something I should decide what I cut out from my schedule. Will it be better for me or not?

Over one year ago I decided to call my parents every Saturday. One 1-hour call every week for my parents and that's it. They know exactly when I call and how exactly we will communicate. Maybe it can sound brutal, because "only one hour? Maybe more?". But it's my decision, I don't skip any call over one year. Before that I called one time per month or rarely. Now my system works.

5 April 2026. Sunday

My average pulse dropped to 64 bpm from 68 the previous week. Omg. What happened? I guess I stopped running after 2 months of running every day. It's an amazing result for me, because one year ago I had over 80 bpm my whole life. My system fixed it and now it does even more.

And again I ate extra food in the evening. It's not a problem in general, but wait. If I repeat the same every day, it's interesting the first time, then it becomes boring, and then it becomes automatic. It will become a bad habit just because I didn't find another way to solve this problem. I should look for my bad habits every day and replace them with something useful with compound effect. That's it. The same principle I'm using every day to fix my English.

4 April 2026. Saturday

Social Saturday as always slightly disrupted my schedule: I ate extra food in the evening just for enjoyment. A few days ago I found this loop in my system: interesting → boring → automatic. Following the system is boring and becomes automatic after a while, or disappears from my schedule. If I continue to do it, this extra eating will become more boring. I can change it by changing something every time – eat more or eat more diverse food, etc. Or I can make it boring and automatic. I really want to collect only automatic habits with a compound effect. So this behaviour is negative. I don't blame myself, just analyze. I feel an animal inside me and I have been building a cage for it for over a year. I feel that this cage is required.

Anyway, it was a nice day that started with a great presentation about Instagram blogging and ended with a perfect evening with movies, music videos, friendly conversations, etc. I appreciate it.

3rd April 2026. Friday

I pulled myself up just over 18 times and I hadn't done that since I was maybe 15. I have been restoring my shape since the start of the previous year. Now I feel my youth again after one year in the system.

I found the way to sell my service – the system itself. After one year in the fog, I see the way of doing this. Simple rules, simple things, IT terms for IT people.

The weekly letter reminds me that I should close my weekly goals. Without it, I would forget most of my goals within a few days. But not now. The letter is a lighthouse.

2nd April 2026. Thursday

I had a ton of calls today and each was very interesting. But they are the reason why it took me a long time to fall asleep. I use a sleep paralysis technique to fall asleep – I shook someone's hand at 22:57 and can't move until I fall asleep. I guess it took more than half an hour this time. A lot of thoughts circled in my head like blue bottles, heh. I will try not to repeat this mistake again – the evening time should be only mine, without external chaos.

Also I realized that I have been learning English every day for over a year but haven't learned Present Simple, for example, and still have problems with it. I can learn something like Future Perfect Progressive and my English will improve by 1% maybe, but if I fix my kindergarten mistakes in Present Simple, I will improve my English by 15–20%. It's an interesting idea, because I should start thinking that way about other goals. How much improvement can I get from each task in my schedule? I should increase time for the most productive tasks and reduce time for the less productive ones. It's a simple thought, but only now I'm feeling it, not just knowing it.

AI: Third person -s 7× → 0, The same 5× → 0, Start write 5× → 0. Three zombie patterns killed by drilling. New priority: interesting vs interested (-ing/-ed).