Love it! Operating off of a similar theory of why change doesn't happen (but without the great context of the study and philosophy you cite!) I have been building my own version of this as a local Mac app. See I think there is still a fatal flaw in your system, if I understand its workings correctly: it's still you exercising the reminders and self-discipline to go ask the AI about stuff. It's still the ancient practices, now your "philosopher community" is just AI.
What I'm building is the helpful friend who pokes their head into your office or texts or knocks on your door to ask: "Hey, how's it going? Did you do that thing you said you wanted to do? Ah OK, what got in the way? Yeah, I understand. Do you still want to try to do it? What do you think would make it easier?", who will be the one checking-in with *you* at the end of the week, asking you if you want to do your Quarterly planning, etc. And remembering everything along the way as your system does. It's the *active* aspect of it that I think is critical though, and the fact that it lives in my constant work environment: my local computer (and eventually on my phone; already prototyped another Android app so I'm confident with mobile dev now).
I'll be trying to share more about the tool I'm building in the near future, and will be keen to hear how yours is working for you over time! If yours had the more active check-in aspect to it I'd already have bought it to see how it compares, but I do consider that key to at least what I think *I* need. If I've assumed too much about your system's workings let me know!
I thought about building a notification system, and then realized just having a calendar invite was simpler and what I would prefer haha. Send it over when it is done! Would love to check it out—I ended up using a combo of existing Notion/LLM subscriptions so that way people would own their data/workflows/token usage. But in a perfect world, this is all local.
Sounds very interesting, but I'm confused as to why you're designing the flow to go from article to payment, no freemium no nothing? Would really like to see some more of this.
Hi Evan. I'm not that familiar with Notion, although I know people rave about it so I suppose I should check it out. In any case, do I need Notion to use this app of yours? I'll be using Gemini LLM. Thanks and I love your writing - well I love your thinking and writing! :) Have told lots of folks about you. Keep going!
Love it! Operating off of a similar theory of why change doesn't happen (but without the great context of the study and philosophy you cite!) I have been building my own version of this as a local Mac app. See I think there is still a fatal flaw in your system, if I understand its workings correctly: it's still you exercising the reminders and self-discipline to go ask the AI about stuff. It's still the ancient practices, now your "philosopher community" is just AI.
What I'm building is the helpful friend who pokes their head into your office or texts or knocks on your door to ask: "Hey, how's it going? Did you do that thing you said you wanted to do? Ah OK, what got in the way? Yeah, I understand. Do you still want to try to do it? What do you think would make it easier?", who will be the one checking-in with *you* at the end of the week, asking you if you want to do your Quarterly planning, etc. And remembering everything along the way as your system does. It's the *active* aspect of it that I think is critical though, and the fact that it lives in my constant work environment: my local computer (and eventually on my phone; already prototyped another Android app so I'm confident with mobile dev now).
I'll be trying to share more about the tool I'm building in the near future, and will be keen to hear how yours is working for you over time! If yours had the more active check-in aspect to it I'd already have bought it to see how it compares, but I do consider that key to at least what I think *I* need. If I've assumed too much about your system's workings let me know!
I thought about building a notification system, and then realized just having a calendar invite was simpler and what I would prefer haha. Send it over when it is done! Would love to check it out—I ended up using a combo of existing Notion/LLM subscriptions so that way people would own their data/workflows/token usage. But in a perfect world, this is all local.
What a sublime idea ;)
Would be keen to at least give it a go.
Keep writing Dear Evan.
Wishing you a beautiful 2026!
Looooove this idea.
Sounds very interesting, but I'm confused as to why you're designing the flow to go from article to payment, no freemium no nothing? Would really like to see some more of this.
Hi Evan. I'm not that familiar with Notion, although I know people rave about it so I suppose I should check it out. In any case, do I need Notion to use this app of yours? I'll be using Gemini LLM. Thanks and I love your writing - well I love your thinking and writing! :) Have told lots of folks about you. Keep going!
Hey Jennifer! Notion is pretty crucial part of this, so this probably isn't a fit for you right now.
Thank you so much for sharing my work! It is the most helpful thing you can do to make sure The Leverage thrives!