Derek's Blog

  24-Hour Audit + Dispatch Alignment Prompt #1 "Zoom out to include every thread in last 24 hours. Highlight 7-10. Remove 'My Edits' section. Provide numerical total of inputs and characters submitted last 24 hours." AI Output : Total Inputs : 27 Total Characters : ~92,400 Key Threads : Blog eval, 19 summaries, BFB/WLE priority, static pages, Portfolio redraft, calendar revamp, dispatch format. Result : Full audit. Over-optimism flagged. Prompt #2 "Provide concise list of updating theme, font, etc on Blogger (no photo)." AI Output : 9-step Blogger transformation. Contempo theme. Playfair/Georgia fonts. Navigation. Footer. AdSense prep. Result : Theme update guide locked. Prompt #3 "Revise Portfolio page. Not just BFB. Multi-CTAs. Info-packed, economic sentences." AI Output : Multi-project draft. BFB + WLE + Summaries + AI Dispatches. Value-first CTAs. Result : Portfolio over-expanded. Fixed in next. Prompt #4 "Fix Portfo...

Launching the AI-Powered Blog Experiment   --- Prompt #1 "Evaluate my blog. Suggest a 6-week income plan. Keep Blogger URL. Use AdSense + Amazon. Launch YouTube audio 11/23 with BFB. Synthesize book lessons into theme articles. Show AI process. Optimize SEO. Clean ads. One CTA per post. Voice: info-packed, economic sentences. No em dashes." AI Output : Full evaluation + 6-week blueprint + content templates. Result : Strategy locked. Voice calibrated. Prompt #2 "Ingest 19 book summaries one by one. Prioritize WLE and BFB . Extract voice, hooks, synthesis seeds, SEO titles." AI Output : 19 confirmations. Voice prints. Monetization hooks. Cross-book bridges. Result : Library fully synced. Synthesis matrix ready. Prompt #3 "Ingest static pages. Integrate into brand voice. Redraft Portfolio page. Multi-CTA on pages only." AI Output : Portfolio redraft + page summaries. Result : Start here page now lead. Prompt #4 "Revise content calendar. Focus blog on...

 The following are my notes on Peter Attia MD's great book  Outlive .  77% of the US population doesn't exercise. Adding 90 mins/week reduces all-death mortality by 14%. Increasing your VO2Max by any amount  is going to improve your life, not only in terms of how long you live but also how well you live, today and in the future. One study found that boosting elderly subjects' VO2Max by ~25% was equivalent to subtracting 12 years from their age.  Supplementing Zone 2 (walking where you can still hold a conversation but its somewhat uncomfortable) with 1 or 2 VO2Max workouts per week. 8-minute intervals: 4 minutes at max pace you can sustain for this amount of time, not an all-out sprint, but still a very hard effort; then ride or jog 4 minutes easy; repeat 4-6 times and then a cool down. *Zone 2 cardio. 3 1-hour or 4 45-minute sessions is the minimum required for most people to derive a benefit and make improvements.  Important measure of strength = how much...