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Personal development, financial resilience and meaningful relationships - all this while coding or rambling about technology

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Personal Development
#blog monetization, #blogging journey, #experiment

Help Me Help You

Last updated: December 13, 2025

Effective help requires clarity about what you actually need. Teaching people how to help you transforms good intentions into meaningful support

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Personal Development
#money, #series

[ Video ] Conversations With A Mysterious Partner – Money

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Money conversations reveal core beliefs about value, security, and freedom. Video dialogue exploring money's real function beyond mere transactions

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Personal Development
#meaning, #perspective, #wisdom

Life Has No Meaning. And That’s Why It’s So Wonderful

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Existential freedom emerges when you realize life has no inherent meaning. The absence of cosmic purpose creates space for personal meaning-making

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Digital Tools Personal Development
#apps, #tools

Digital Tools I Use – 9 Years Later

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Digital tool stacks evolve with changing needs. Nine years of experimentation reveals which tools survive and why most eventually get abandoned

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Personal Development
#motivation, #series

[ Video ] Conversations With A Mysterious Partner – Motivation

Last updated: December 3, 2025

As of today I'm starting a new experiment. I want to provide, apart from regular blog posts, videos.

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Personal Development Running
#fitness, #ultra-marathon

45 Kilometers For 45 Years

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Birthday runs create physical markers of time passing. Running one kilometer per year of life transforms aging from burden into celebration

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Personal Development
#consistency, #habits, #perspective

The Apple Pile And The Need For Consistency

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Consistency beats intensity every time. The apple pile metaphor reveals why daily small actions compound while sporadic heroics fade into nothing

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Personal Development Running
#personal story, #race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of Transmaraton – 64 KM Ultramarathon

Last updated: December 2, 2025

64 kilometers through Transylvania tested preparation against reality. The Transmaraton race report chronicles what happens when theory meets mountain trails

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Personal Development Relationships and Society
#relationships, #values

Picking Up Chicks versus Attracting Meaningful Relationships

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Pickup tactics optimize for quantity over quality. Meaningful relationships require different strategies—attraction beats pursuit when building real connection

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Personal Development
#boundaries, #buddhism, #list post

The 3 Deadliest Traps Of The “Helping People Syndrome”

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Compulsive helping destroys helpers and those they try to help. Three psychological traps that turn good intentions into destructive codependency

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Personal Development
#fear, #stoicism

The Coiled Rope And The Snake

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Fear creates imagined dangers from harmless reality. The ancient Buddhist parable reveals how perception generates suffering from nothing

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Personal Development
#change, #fitness, #how to

Before and After – Or How To Lose Weight by Running

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Running changes bodies but transformation photographs miss the real story. Weight loss happens between photos—in daily decisions nobody sees

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Personal Development
#perspective, #self awareness, #wisdom

Blindfolded

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Operating blindfolded reveals how much we depend on assumptions versus direct perception. Removing sight amplifies everything else—here's what emerges

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Personal Development Running
#lessons learned, #race reports, #ultra-marathon

Ultrabalaton Ultra-marathon – The Aftermath Of A 222 Kilometers Race

Last updated: December 2, 2025

222 kilometers non-stop around Lake Balaton—the aftermath reveals what ultramarathons do to body and mind. Recovery tells the race's real story

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Personal Development Running
#race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of My First 220km Race – Ultrabalaton – The Fifth Marathon

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Fifth of five marathons—exhaustion versus determination in darkness. The final 42km where mental strength becomes the only fuel remaining

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Personal Development Running
#race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of My First 220km Race – Ultrabalaton – The Fourth Marathon

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Fourth marathon of five—body breaking down, mind negotiating whether to continue. The psychological warfare that defines ultra-distance running

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Personal Development Running
#race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of My First 220km Race – Ultrabalaton – The Third Marathon

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Third marathon brings reckoning—optimism fades, reality solidifies. Understanding you're only halfway triggers the real mental battle

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Personal Development Running
#race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of My First 220km Race – Ultrabalaton – The Second Marathon

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Second marathon meets exhaustion approaching. Confidence from first marathon collides with accumulating fatigue—the pattern emerges clearly

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Personal Development Running
#race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of My First 220km Race – Ultrabalaton – The First Marathon

Last updated: December 3, 2025

First of five marathons—starting strong before reality hits. Initial optimism masks the distance ahead—naivety serves as temporary fuel

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Personal Development Running
#race reports, #ultra-marathon

The Story Of My First 220km Race – Ultrabalaton – The Preparation

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Preparing for 220km ultra-marathon reveals planning's limits. Training strategies, gear selection, mental frameworks—readiness illusion before reality strikes

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