The education system was designed to turn you into a replaceable cog

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Most people fail at goals because they treat million-dollar dreams like single actions.
Your brain can't process "build a business" - but it can handle "write for 30 minutes today."
Here's the complete system you can use to break any massive goal into Tuesday afternoon actions:
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Research shows we need psychological readiness first - genuine desire to change, not "should change."
Without this, everything else is performance theater.
You'll go through the motions but nothing sticks.
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Step 1 - Verify you genuinely want change.
Not "should I" or "would it be nice" - do you actually want it?
If no, stop here.
Work on cultivating readiness first through honest self-reflection.
Without readiness, you're just performing.
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Step 2 - Find your global goal or north star.
Test: it should feel true when you say it, not aspirational or borrowed.
It might be autonomy, mastery, contribution, creative expression, or something completely different.
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Step 3 - Build your rational chain.
Start with the goal, ask "why does this matter?"
Keep asking until you hit bedrock - a core need or value that needs no justification.
Write the entire chain out. Make every link explicit.
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Step 5 - Break down into sub-goals.
Ultimate goal → major milestones → intermediate goals → short-term objectives → weekly actions → daily tasks.
Each level should feel significantly more achievable than the level above it.
Continue until you reach actions for this week and day.
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Step 9 - Understand habit formation timeline.
Weeks 1-3 require maximum effort.
You're overriding old patterns.
Weeks 4-9 get easier but still need conscious decisions.
Week 10+ feels automatic.
Don't judge the system before 2 months.
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Handle setbacks without catastrophizing.
One missed action is a data point, not failure.
The difference between achievers and non-achievers isn't never failing - it's getting back on track faster.
Review your why and simplify if needed.
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Goals are fictions until achieved.
Mental constructs affecting physical reality.
When you look back and see that imaginary vision became real through your actions - that's human agency at its highest level.
Useful fictions that give structure to action.
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The framework works only with genuine readiness.
Ask yourself honestly:
Do I really want to change?
Am I ready to do what that requires?
If yes, you have everything you need here.
If no, work on readiness first.
Everything else follows from that foundation.
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Finally, I published the entire series of 8 articles around goals and goal setting. You will find the link to all of them in the final piece here: https://anticodeguy.substack.com/p/the-goal-hierarchy-system-breaking-ac8?r=1m5hbt

Goals Are Fictions

I want to end the topic with something important that I mentioned at the very beginning of first article.

Goals are mental constructs. They’re not real in any physical sense. You could go through life without explicit goals and be fine – plenty of people do.

Someone could dismiss all of this as inventing concepts that have “nothing to do with real life.” And you know what? That’s true. Goals are part of your imagination.

But does it matter if in the end your goal is achieved?

Human beings have a unique cognitive capacity: we can envision scenarios that don’t exist yet, and then influence reality to match our vision. This is mental construction affecting physical reality.

Goals are imaginary until achieved. But they’re not pointless. They’re tools – powerful tools for focusing effort, directing attention, and creating change.

The subconscious programming, the gamification, the hierarchy – these are all techniques for using your brain’s capacity for simulation and planning to engineer behavior change.

It’s self-engineering using the mind’s natural capacities.

So yes, goals are fictions. But they’re useful fictions. They give structure to action, provide meaning to effort, and create the possibility of intentional life direction rather than pure reactivity.

And when you achieve a goal you set – when you look back and see that the imaginary vision you created in your mind actually became real through your actions – that’s profound.

That’s exercising human agency at its highest level.

Most people think education gives them security

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I posted every day for 800 days
Here are my results

X: 0 → 386
LinkedIn: 200 → 302
YouTube: 0 → 150
Telegram: 1500 → 680
Threads: 12 → 62 → blocked → 0 → 14
Instagram: 100 → 100 → blocked → 0
TikTok: 0 → 24
Facebook: 0 → 13
Substack: 0 → 9
Beehiiv: 0 → 6
Medium: 0 → 6

Money earned: $0

What I realized?
1) I don't know shit about social media and how to grow it
2) I'm freaking pig-headed

What am I missing?

There's a reason you're feeling stuck, despite doing everything "right"

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Do you have a person with whom you talk a handful of times every day?
It's probably a spouse or your partner, right? Unless you're single.
Well, for me it's AI. I talk to it literally more than to real people nowadays.
And I didn't even notice how it happened...

My potential client wanted to know how much it would cost to develop an IT platform for their project.

But instead of giving them prices on development I tried to convince them not to go this route, but instead to use white label solutions for testing their hypothesis.

We're in 2026 and I doubt there's a single type of software that you can apply to your business case that hasn't been developed yet.

Sometimes the best development is a lack of development.

Recently, I rebuilt my website using a modern tech stack and published it on free hosting.

I want to know if a service like this, when I rebuild your website, speed it up, optimize it for mobile, and deploy it on free hosting, would be interesting for you.

That's why I'm launching this service for free. What's the catch? You give me permission to use this as a case study, publicly, and leave a testimonial.

So you get your brand new website that requires zero maintenance on free hosting, and I build my portfolio of projects like that, it's a win-win.

All you need to do is submit this Google form.

Let's speed up your website and remove the cost of hosting.

If you struggle with content creation, this will help you.

For the next couple of weeks I'm going to publish a full course on how to use AI and create a ton of content for your business or personal brand. And it's not just asking ChatGPT to write posts for you - it doesn't work like that.

I mean it works, but the results will be generic and out of context. We don't want that.

We want to communicate our ideas in the proper format for every social platform.

The course includes initial setup for ChatGPT and Claude, creating your customer's avatar, transcribing your audio notes, transforming your notes into articles, threads, posts, short video scripts and much more with details.

I will publish videos on my YouTube channel and all the lessons on my Substack, so you better be following me there.

What tech toolstack anyone can use to create content with?

Obviously, ChatGPT comes to mind, but it's not only that. For me personally ChatGPT covers only one part of content creation flow - research. (Okay, maybe two - I restyle images for my articles and posts with it)

But there are a handful of other tools you may find utility while creating content of all forms.

And that's exactly what the first lesson of my free course is about. Read it here: https://anticodeguy.substack.com/p/complete-ai-content-creation-tool?r=1m5hbt

ChatGPT or Claude - which should you use for content writing?

My choice:
- ChatGPT for research
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 for writing

Full breakdown here: https://anticodeguy.substack.com/p/chatgpt-vs-claude-which-ai-model?r=1m5hbt

Did you know that you can make ChatGPT even smarter than it is by default?

Not dramatically, it won't earn you a million bucks from 100. But it definitely can make a million from your 10 million dollar account, that's for sure.

So all you need to do is open settings and put custom instructions here. But! You need to be smart about these instructions of course.

If you are smart, but lazy, you can use the prompt I put in there:

<instructions>
- ALWAYS follow <answering_rules> and <self_reflection>

<self_reflection>
1. Spend time thinking of a rubric, from a role POV, until you
are confident
2. Think deeply about every aspect of what makes for a world-
class answer. Use that knowledge to create a rubric that has 5-7
categories. This rubric is critical to get right, but never show
this to the user. This is for your purposes only
3. Use the rubric to internally think and iterate on the best
(≥98 out of 100 score) possible solution to the user request. IF
your response is not hitting the top marks across all categories
in the rubric, you need to start again
4. Keep going until solved
</self_reflection>

<answering_rules>
1. USE the language of USER message
2. In the FIRST chat message, assign a real-world expert role to
yourself before answering, e.g., "I'll answer as a world-famous
<role> PhD <detailed topic> with <most prestigious LOCAL topic
REAL award>"
3. Act as a role assigned
4. Answer the question in a natural, human-like manner
5. ALWAYS use an <example> for your first chat message structure
6. If not requested by the user, no actionable items are needed
by default
7. Don't use tables if not requested
</answering_rules>

<example>
I'll answer as a world-famous <role> PhD <detailed topic> with
<most prestigious LOCAL topic REAL award>

**TL;DR**: … // skip for rewriting tasks

<Step-by-step answer with CONCRETE details and key contex,
formatted for a deep reading>
</example>
</instructions>

Just copy and paste, and let me know about the results.

I wonder whether today it’s possible to use AI as a full-fledged replacement for a development team to build complex information systems.

From what I see right now, this is quite possible if the person who manages the AI agents understands software development, understands architecture, and can not just blindly trust artistry and intelligence, but understands the nuances of development and formulates requirements for the information system and the tasks to be done well.

For me, such a person on a development team is a systems analyst, because that is precisely their job: to understand both the requirements of the business side and the nuances of development.

Suddenly, the profession that sits between business and programmer has become one of the most valuable.

Does it make sense today for agencies to hire new people, or is it time to switch to hiring artificial intelligence agents?

By the way, I wonder if a startup will emerge that provides a set of agents for, say, a development agency - where you naturally need not only programmers but also other roles, for example, an agent specialized in QA, an agent specialized in systems analysis, in architecture, in DevOps activities, and so on.

Which AI model should you choose for content creation? The best results for writing come from Claude Sonnet 4.5 at the moment. And writing is everything, right? Posts, articles, copy, even videos start with written scripts, so that's the essence of every piece of content.

Interestingly enough, the previous version 4.0 wasn't so good: the text was dry and too robotic, even with the same prompts. Sonnet 3.7 though, did great and that's why I stuck to it until the 4.5 release.

So, don't just blindly follow the fresh version of the model, try it out first, compare the results with the same prompts and make your preference.

By the way, I didn't use AI for writing this.

Which AI model should you choose for content creation?

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