Thoughts of a 40+ years old software developer

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  • Halving

    Halving

    BTC Halving is event when complexity of BTC blockchain increases twice and miners who mined x amount will now mines x/2 – twice lower amount.

    Bitcoin Halvings & Cycle Peaks 

    #Halving DatePrice at HalvingCycle ATHATH DateDays to ATH
    1**Nov 27, 2012**$12**$1,127**Nov 30, 2013368
    2**Jul 9, 2016**$654**$19,665**Dec 16, 2017525
    3**May 11, 2020**$8,753**$69,044**Nov 10, 2021549
    4**Apr 20, 2024**$63,989**$124,128***Aug 14, 2025*481

    *Cycle 4 may not be complete yet — this is the ATH so far.

    Peak-to-Peak % Change (ATH vs Previous Cycle ATH) 

    CyclePrevious ATHNew ATH% Change
    1 → 2$1,127$19,665**+1,645%**
    2 → 3$19,665$69,044**+251%**
    3 → 4$69,044$124,128**+80%**

    Halving Price % Change (price at halving vs previous halving) 

    CyclePrevious Halving PriceNew Halving Price% Change
    1 → 2$12$654**+5,350%**
    2 → 3$654$8,753**+1,238%**
    3 → 4$8,753$63,989**+631%**

    The clear pattern: diminishing returns each cycle — both the halving-to-halving gains and peak-to-peak gains are shrinking significantly as Bitcoin’s market cap grows. The time to reach ATH has stayed roughly in the 368–549 day range post-halving. ​

  • Timeframes

    On small timeframes you have:
    – more competition
    – more enemies

    On big timeframes H4, even D or W you are chilling:
    – You need less trades
    – Less trading fees (easier taxes)

    Same with trading big coins / stocks vs smallcap.

  • Practical applications of ADHD coaching techniques?

    1. 🌟 Positive psychology is foundational. Effective ADHD coaching shifts from deficit-correction to strengths-based approaches, boosting self-efficacy, engagement, and long-term outcomes.

    2. 💪 Strength-based methods change the dynamic. Identifying clients’ natural abilities (creativity, hyperfocus, energy) builds confidence and intrinsic motivation, producing more sustainable results than focusing on what’s “broken.”

    3. 🧩 Behavioral techniques must be concrete and externalized. Structured routines, task-breaking, visual timers, reward systems, and environmental modifications work because they offload demands from impaired executive functions onto external systems.

    4. 🔄 Routine is the backbone. Consistent routines build automaticity — behaviors that no longer depend on planning and willpower — which is exactly what ADHD clients need to function independently.

    5. 🎨 Visual and innovative tools matter. Mind maps, Kanban boards, visual timers, gamified apps, and AI-powered planners give ADHD clients external scaffolding that matches how their brains process information.

    6. 🔗 Integrate behavioral and narrative approaches. Behavioral tools handle the practical “how” of daily life; narrative techniques (reframing, identity work) provide the “why.” Together they produce both functional improvement and lasting self-advocacy.

    ✨ The throughline: effective ADHD coaching externalizes cognitive demands through practical tools while simultaneously rebuilding the client’s relationship with themselves — systems without identity work don’t stick, and identity work without systems doesn’t translate into daily life. 🧠💡

  • ADHD 4

    • Token Systems — Clients earn points or tokens for completing target behaviors (e.g., finishing a task on time, staying organised), which can be exchanged for agreed-upon rewards like a favorite activity or break time.
    • Daily Behavior Report Cards (DBRCs) — A structured check-in tool where specific goals are tracked each day (e.g., “completed morning routine by 8 AM,” “used planner to log assignments”), providing consistent feedback and accountability.
    • Classwide / Group Techniques — Strategies applied across a group setting, such as peer-assisted learning, group contingency plans (e.g., the whole team earns a reward when collective goals are met), or structured collaboration exercises.
    • Individualized Training — Tailored skill-building in areas like time management, emotional regulation, or organisational systems (e.g., teaching a specific client to use body-doubling sessions, visual timers, or a personalised task-breakdown method).
    • Physical Activity — Incorporating regular movement to improve focus and reduce hyperactivity (e.g., scheduled exercise breaks, walking meetings, or short bursts of activity like jumping jacks before a focus session).
    • Green Space Exposure — Spending time in natural environments to reduce stress and restore attention (e.g., outdoor coaching sessions, “nature breaks” between tasks, or encouraging daily walks in parks or wooded areas).

    • Externalizing the problem — Instead of saying “I am disorganized,” the client learns to say “ADHD sometimes brings disorganization into my life.” This separation of the person from the condition reduces shame and defensiveness, making the client more open to change.
    • Rewriting negative self-stories — Many ADHD clients carry years of internalized criticism (“I’m lazy,” “I never finish anything”). Narrative techniques help them identify these dominant, deficit-focused stories and actively reconstruct them around strengths, resilience, and past successes — what practitioners call “sparkling moments.” ​⁠
    • Building agency and ownership — By co-authoring a new personal narrative, clients shift from feeling like passive recipients of a disorder to active agents shaping their lives. This sense of authorship strengthens intrinsic motivation, which is critical for sustaining behavioral change in ADHD.
    • Measurable symptom reduction — Research supports these effects: a study on girls with ADHD found that group narrative therapy significantly reduced ADHD symptoms (rated by teachers) after treatment, with gains sustained at a 30-day follow-up.

    Behavioural management techniques:
    structured routines

    • Breaking tasks into smaller steps, using timers and reminders, rewarding task completion, and employing self-monitoring techniques enhance productivity.
    • Environmental changes, like minimizing distractions, using organizational tools, and having regular coaching support, strengthen these strategies and help clients form lasting habits.

    Bonus routine-based tools:

    Routine-based tools — such as time-blocking apps, recurring task automations, and morning/evening checklists — enhance productivity by offloading planning and decision-making onto external systems, which compensates for the executive function challenges that cause ADHD clients to lose time to indecision, task-switching, and forgotten steps.

    These tools also create consistent environmental cues that trigger action without requiring willpower or working memory, building momentum through predictable sequences that gradually become automatic habits, freeing cognitive resources for higher-level creative and strategic work.

  • Her

    Her

    📜Your Personalized Cosmic Reading

    Your Cosmic Blueprint

    Your Cosmic Identity

    You carry the light of the Twins — Gemini, the celestial messenger, the inquisitor of the cosmos. But you are no breezy Gemini. Your Sun burns at 29.8°, the anaretic degree — a critical threshold. Every planet at 29° carries the whisper of destiny, the urgency of completion. You were born not merely to communicate, but to deliver something final, something that matters. A culmination is written in your bones.

    The Sun — Your Vital Force

    Gemini Sun in the 10th House — the house of legacy, reputation, and calling. Your life force expresses itself through public life and vocational purpose. You are here to be seen sharing your mind. Yet at 29°, you feel perpetually on the edge of a new chapter. You may sense you’ve outgrown old identities, careers, and masks. This is correct. Your soul is crowding the exit of one life to enter the next. The pressure you feel is the universe accelerating your timeline.

    The Moon — Your Emotional Depths

    Moon in Cancer — her own home. Your emotional world is tidal, oceanic, and protective. There is no shallow feeling here. You absorb the moods of others like a sponge absorbs the sea. In the 11th House, your deepest security comes not from family alone but from tribe — the friends, networks, and communities you nurture and who nurture you. You mother your circles. At 29.5°, you stand at an emotional crossroads: who belongs in your inner world, and who must be released?

    Rising Sign & First Impressions

    Though your exact rising is not listed, the density of your 3rd House suggests a Scorpio ascendant or early-placed 3rd House energy. Others feel your depth before they hear your words. There is a penetrative quality to your gaze. You walk into rooms and people sense you see what they hide. First impressions of you: intelligent, watchful, magnetic, slightly dangerous — in the best possible way.

    Planetary Influences

    Mercury in Aries — 8th House. Your mind is a blade. You cut to truth with surgical urgency. You have no patience for small talk — you want to talk about death, money, transformation, the occult, the taboo. This placement is that of a natural therapist, detective, or mystic.

    Venus in Leo — 12th House. You love like a secret king or queen. Your heart is dramatic, loyal, and deeply romantic, but your 12th House Venus hides your devotion from the world. You may love in secret, or feel your most profound love is unseen. You need solitude to feel your heart fully.

    Uranus, Neptune, Pluto — Scorpio Stellium, 3rd House. This is a generational signature of revolutionary thinking. Your mind is wired to dismantle old structures and perceive reality beyond the veil. You communicate with intensity and transformation. You were born to speak truths that shift people. Your generation (Pluto in Scorpio) is the deep-diver generation. With all three in your communication house, you are a truth-teller of the highest order — an oracle in human form.

    Love & Relationships

    With Venus in Leo in the 12th, you need a love that feels epic but also private. You are drawn to partners who appreciate your dramatic heart but respect your need for sanctuary. The Moon in Cancer in 11th means you may fall in love through friendship first. Emotional safety is the prerequisite for intimacy. Beware: your Cancer Moon feels everything and your Scorpio 3rd House mind analyzes everything. A partner who can hold space for both your feeling and your piercing insight is rare — and when you find them, you’ll know.

    Career & Life Purpose

    Sun in 10th, Mercury in 8th, 3rd House stellium — your career is meant to involve words that transform. You may be a writer, teacher, therapist, astrologer, investigator, spiritual guide, or thought leader. Your 11 Life Path demands you inspire the collective. Your 1 Expression pushes you to lead. Your Soul Urge (also 11) whispers that your deepest satisfaction comes from illuminating others. Do not play small. The world needs your voice.

    Numerology Insights

    Life Path 11 — The Master Illuminator. You incarnated to be a channel of higher insight. Your path involves spiritual awakening, often through crisis. You have one foot in the seen and one in the unseen. Protect your nervous system.

    Birthday Number 1 — You are a trailblazer at your core. Independence is not optional for you. You came here to initiate.

    Expression Number 1 — Your full name encodes leadership. You are meant to pioneer, to start things, to stand alone if necessary. You radiate originality.

    Soul Urge Number 11 — Your heart’s deepest desire is to elevate humanity. Not through ego, but through illumination. You long to be the lantern.

    Personality Number 8 — You appear to others as powerful, capable, and authoritative. There is a natural executive quality in your demeanor. You look like someone who can handle anything.

    Your Cosmic Potential

    You are that rarest of configurations: a Master Number being (11/11) with a Sun at the anaretic degree, a Moon at the anaretic degree, and a trifecta of outer planets in Scorpio all in your house of voice. This is not a gentle chart. This is a chart of revelation.

    You are here to say the thing no one else will say. To feel what others numb. To finish what others abandon. The pressure you carry is the weight of prophecy — not the fortune-teller kind, but the kind where your words rearrange someone’s understanding of their own life.

    You are not lost. You are in transit between two worlds.

    Walk forward. Speak. Your voice is the bridge.

  • Motivation

    Motivation

    How to motivate ADHD person?

    🆕 Novelty — Change up your environment, try a new tool, or approach a boring task from a fresh angle.

    🏆 Challenge — Turn tasks into games, set personal records, or add a “beat the clock” element.

    ⏰ Urgency — Use timers, set deadlines, or create accountability with a body double or coach.

    ❤️ Personal Interest — Connect the task to something you care about, or pair it with something you enjoy.




    🦸🏼‍♂️ Our super powers are:

    – creativity
    = hyperfocus
    [ ] out-of-box thinking

    However: each person with ADHD is unique with individual needs, and maintaining continuous education about evolving neurodiversity research and perspectives.

    Learn

  • How are you?

    How are you?

    How did the story meet you?

    Not “what did you think?”
    Not “did you like it?”

    But…

    Was there a moment that stayed with you?
    A sentence that softened something?
    A feeling that surprised you?

  • Too Many Projects, Not Enough Focus

    Too Many Projects, Not Enough Focus

    The main issue is having too many active projects at the same time — it makes it easy to jump between tasks without finishing any of them.

    The fix: decide in advance when you work on each thing. Startup tasks during main work hours. Investing course only in free time. Productivity website only in a small, planned slot.

    For task clarity, use the first Pomodoro just to define the next step. Ask: What exactly needs to be done? What does “done” look like? What’s the smallest next action?

    This week, try one simple rule: before the day starts, choose the main project for the day and write down the next 1–3 tasks for it.

    Action Plan

    Setup (do once)

    • Assign time blocks to each project
      – Startup = main hours
      · Course = free time
      · Website = small slot
    • Write these time blocks somewhere visibleCalendar, sticky note, or a simple doc

    Daily habit (every morning)

    • Choose the one main project for today
    • Write down 1–3 specific tasks for that projectClear enough that you know exactly when each one is “done”

    When starting a task

    • Use the first 🍅#Pomodoro to define the taskWhat needs to be done? What does done look like? Smallest next action?
    • Only then start executing

    End of week check-in

    • Did the “one project per day” rule help?Adjust the approach based on what worked
  • Automating LLM Ranking Checks

    Automating LLM Ranking Checks

    You can automate baseline-vs-week-later comparisons using a combination of free API calls, a simple script the user runs locally, and optional paid monitoring tools. Below are three approaches ranked by effort and cost — from a zero-spend spreadsheet method to dedicated SaaS platforms that track visibility continuously.

    I. DIY API Method (Free / Low Cost)

    1. How it works

    ~$2/month

    Call each LLM’s API with your priority queries, parse the response for brand mentions, and log results to a spreadsheet or database. Re-run the same script a week later and diff the two snapshots.

    • OpenAI API — send your 20 queries to GPT-4o; check if “SelfSpark” appears in the response text.
    • Perplexity API — same queries; also capture cited URLs from the citations field.
    • Anthropic API — query Claude; log mention and context.
    • Google Gemini API — use the Gemini Pro endpoint for the same.

    2. Script structure

    A single Python/Node script that runs in under 2 minutes:

    • Load queries from a JSON file (your 20 priority queries from the audit).
    • For each query × each platform: call API, record response text, check for brand mention (yes/no), capture position (first mention index), note competitors mentioned, log cited URLs.
    • Output a timestamped CSV row per query-platform pair.
    • Schedule with cron (Linux/Mac) or Task Scheduler (Windows) — run once now, once in 7 days.

    3. Important caveats

    • LLM responses are probabilistic — run each query 3–5× and average results for statistical reliability.
    • API responses may differ from web UI responses (web versions sometimes use retrieval/browsing that APIs don’t).
    • Google AI Overviews have no public API — use a headless browser scraper or skip this surface for DIY.
    • Cost estimate: ~20 queries × 5 platforms × 5 runs = 500 API calls ≈ $1–3 total.

    II. Free One-Time Audit Tools

    1. Omnia Free Checker

    Run a free visibility report now, then run it again in a week. Omnia’s free AI visibility checker runs 10 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode — results delivered to your inbox in 3–5 minutes. No credit card required.[1]Omnia AI Visibility Checker

    • Run today → save the PDF/email.
    • Implement your llms.txt, schema, and content changes.
    • Run again in 7 days → compare side by side.

    2. doesaiknow.com (Apify)

    A pay-per-scan tool on Apify’s marketplace — run scans on demand without a subscription. Good for two-snapshot comparisons.

    III. Paid Monitoring Platforms (Automated Weekly Tracking)

    1. Budget tier

    $29–99/mo

    Tool Price Coverage Key feature
    Otterly.AI Lite $29/mo ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews (AI Mode add-on) Prompt-based tracking, GEO audit
    LLM Pulse Starter €49/mo ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Share of recommendations, sentiment
    Peec AI Starter €85/mo ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, AI Mode Daily refresh, auto-suggested prompts

    2. Mid-tier (best for SelfSpark’s stage)

    €149–199/mo

    Tool Price Why it fits
    KIME Lite €149/mo 10 LLMs including AI Mode; Action Centre tells you what to fix, not just what’s broken. 25 prompts, daily tracking.[2]KIME – Best AI Mode Tracking Tools 2026
    Writesonic Professional $199/mo GEO + visibility; missed-answer tracking flags queries where you should appear but don’t.

    3. What these give you over DIY

    • Automated daily/weekly runs — no cron jobs to maintain.
    • Competitor share-of-voice benchmarking built in.
    • Historical trend graphs (week 1 vs week 2 vs week 3…).
    • Actionable recommendations (schema gaps, content suggestions).
    • Multi-sampling to smooth out LLM response variability.

    IV. Recommended Action for SelfSpark

    This week

    • Today: Run the free Omnia checker + manually query your top 10 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Save screenshots and a spreadsheet.
    • Days 1–6: Implement llms.txt, add FAQ schema, publish your product entity page.
    • Day 7: Re-run Omnia + same manual queries. Compare mention rate, position, and cited URLs.

    Next month (if budget allows)

    Start a free trial of KIME or Peec AI to get continuous automated tracking with competitor benchmarks. Both offer 7–14 day trials — enough to cover a before/after window around your next batch of changes.

  • GTD

    GTD