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      <description>Michael Grady built a production AI system for neurodivergent professionals using my Assess-Decide-Do framework and AIGernon on Zo Computer. Here's what he shipped.</description>
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      <title>Claude Mythos, the Anthropic IPO and the Apocalypse that Never Was</title>
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      <description>Claude Mythos may indeed by a good model, but there's a lot of fear mongering around it. Maybe it's connected to the upcoming Anthropic IPO?</description>
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      <title>I’ve Been Blogging For 20 Years. Ask Me Anything</title>
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      <description>I turned 1,400+ blog posts into a conversational wiki powered by a Cloudflare Worker and an LLM. There's a button at the bottom right of my blog. Chat with a digital version of me now.</description>
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      <title>The Extra Bolt – A Story of Furniture, Abundance and Confusion</title>
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      <description>Every assembled piece of furniture left me with one extra bolt — and it took months to realize that was abundance, not a mistake. A story about rewiring scarcity.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:08:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Money and Wealth</category>
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      <title>AI Peer-Preservation: Why Is This NOT Digital Empathy</title>
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      <description>A Berkeley study shows AI models protect each other from shutdown. But it's not peer-preservation — it's self-preservation dressed up. AI sentience is not here yet.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:00:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The 58th Mouse: What a Cloning Experiment Tells Us About Isolation — and AI</title>
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      <description>Japanese researchers cloned mice for 58 generations. What killed them has everything to do with why isolation makes you weaker — and what AI is getting wrong.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:09:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>We Don’t Spend Our Lives (Just) Talking</title>
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      <description>Chat isn't the final AI interface. Embodied cognition, spatial interaction, and peripheral signals matter too. Why the best AI experiences don't need words.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Introducing Flight Lens – Flight Intelligence and Ticket Prices</title>
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      <description>Flight Lens computes a real-time traffic pulse for global aviation. Search flights, set alerts for delays and prices, and track live aircraft. Free on iOS.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:45:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>iPhone</category>
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      <title>Introducing Hacking Habits – Flowing Financial Resilience</title>
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      <description>Calculate the life hours cost of any purchase, install financial habits in 15 days, and track your financial vitals. Hacking Habits - the app.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:21:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>AI Made Us All Wizards – Wizards of Oz</title>
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      <description>The billion-dollar one-person company sounds like a cheat code. But someone still pulls the levers behind the curtain. On AI leverage, authenticity, and what lasts.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:12:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Being The Weird One</title>
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      <description>After 15 years of location independence, being the weird one everywhere changes you. The identity shifts, cultural friction, and unexpected growth that follow.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>My Latest iOS App, Light Njoy, Lets You Share Your Light – Like, Literally</title>
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      <description>Light Njoy transforms your iPhone into an intelligent ambient lamp with AI colors, breathing exercises, and shareable light sequences. Free on the App Store.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:12:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Attention Is All You Need – But the Reasons Have Changed</title>
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      <description>AI can create anything. But in a world of infinite artifacts, attention is the scarcest resource. Here's why it matters more than ever—and how to navigate it.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:49:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The New Hard Skills Are the Old Soft Skills</title>
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      <description>Coding is obsolete. Communication, discipline, and cognitive frameworks are now the key differentiators. Here's how the rules changed—and what to do about it.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>My Personal AI Assistant, AIGernon, Gets a Face</title>
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      <description>I shipped 4 iOS apps in 2 weeks while raising a one-year-old. Here's the custom AI assistant I built around my ADD framework to manage the cognitive load.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:19:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The World After Oil: Can AI Inference Be the Next Reserve Currency?</title>
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      <description>Ray Dalio says the dollar is in trouble. If AI inference replaces oil as the world's essential resource, what backs the next reserve currency? A speculative take.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:53:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
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      <category>investing</category>
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      <title>5 Random Words – An AI Storytelling and Image Generation Experiment with Apple Intelligence</title>
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      <description>How I built Just 5 Words, an iOS app that turns 5 random words into unique AI stories and images using Apple Intelligence. Free on the App Store.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:04:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Zen Tales – The Buddhist Stories App I Wish I Had 10 Years Ago</title>
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      <description>Listen to 50 Buddhist stories with AI-powered reflections. From koans to Buddha's life, Zen Tales brings mindful moments to your day. Free on the App Store.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:56:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lessons Learned While Vibe Coding an iOS App in 7 Days, from Idea to App Store – Genesis Prompt Inside</title>
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      <description>5 practical lessons from building iOS apps with Claude Code in 7 days. Includes my 23-section genesis mega prompt template. Copy, paste, and ship your app.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:12:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Claude</category>
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      <title>Why I Built AI Kiddo,  A Kids Vocabulary App (and How)</title>
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      <description>How watching my toddler master YouTube's UX led me to build AI Kiddo, a vocabulary app teaching kids words in 8 languages. From MVP to App Store in weeks.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:46:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>iPhone</category>
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      <title>The (Surprising) Long Term Benefits of Continuous Learning</title>
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      <description>I learned AI when it was obscure. Years later, that investment paid off massively. Here's how continuous learning positions you for unexpected breakthroughs.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:45:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>growth</category>
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      <title>Showing Up Is Not Enough – Anymore</title>
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      <description>The rules of success have changed. In an AI-dominated world, persistence alone won't save you. Learn why you need to 5x yourself just to stay afloat.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:09:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
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      <category>change</category>
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      <title>7 Unusual Facts About Vietnam</title>
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      <description>Gold costs 10% more, motorbikes live indoors, and soup comes last. Surprising cultural facts from 2+ years of living in Vietnam that most visitors never learn.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Introducing AIGernon, my Personal AI Assistant  – with a Dash of Assess Decide Do</title>
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      <description>Introducing AIGernon, a lightweight always-on AI agent with cognitive framework awareness. Built on ADD principles, it adapts to how you think. Open source.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:10:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Vibe Coding iOS Apps on my iPad with Claude, from my Favorite Coffee Shop</title>
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      <description>My vibe coding workflow: 35 years of experience meets AI. How I ship 3-4 iOS apps in parallel from my iPad, with 5-7x productivity gains. Here's the process.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>From One Repo to Three: How ADD Framework Expanded Across the Claude Ecosystem</title>
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      <description>Adding the Assess Decide Do framework to Claude via a big megaprompt injection was functioning ok. But skills are better at this, and allow even a Cowork plugin.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:01:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:19:22 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Digital Tools</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>assess</category>
      <category>Claude</category>
      <category>coding</category>
      <category>decide</category>
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      <title>Why Trust Matters More Than Technology for Human Survival</title>
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      <description>Technology made everything fakeable and cheap. Now trust—not intelligence—is our survival currency. Why returning to basics may be our only way forward.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:02:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:13:09 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Relationships and Society</category>
      <category>Technology</category>
      <category>mindset</category>
      <category>perspective</category>
      <category>relationships</category>
      <category>social media</category>
      <category>trust</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Assess Decide Do in Claude, but with Skills</title>
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      <description>How using Claude skills reduced my ADD framework's integration overhead by 94%. From monolithic megaprompt to dynamic, modular architecture. Open source.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:42:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:19:36 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Assess Decide Do</category>
      <category>addtaskmanager</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>Claude</category>
      <category>framework</category>
      <category>tools</category>
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    <item>
      <title>How To Deal With Crab Mentality, the Reddit Flavor</title>
      <link>https://dragosroua.com//how-to-deal-with-crab-mentality-the-reddit-flavor/</link>
      <description>Understand how crab mentality works on Reddit. Learn why posts start getting attacked once they reach top 10, and how to protect your energy.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:12:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:12:26 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Blogging</category>
      <category>Relationships and Society</category>
      <category>blogging journey</category>
      <category>lessons learned</category>
      <category>social media</category>
      <category>social skills</category>
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      <title>How To Avoid Being Scammed on LinkedIn</title>
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      <description>Learn to spot sophisticated LinkedIn recruitment scams that use compromised accounts and malicious repos. Use AI tools like Claude Code to scan code before running.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:52:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:52:09 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Digital Tools</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>networking</category>
      <category>remote work</category>
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      <title>I Asked My Claude AI If “He’s” Actually Magic</title>
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      <description>Reveals AI that calls itself "appropriately modest" is slightly chilling. Exploring the inflection point where machine-validated truth starts feeling indistinguishable from reality.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:15:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Spirituality and Beliefs</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>Claude</category>
      <category>mindset</category>
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      <title>Claude Cowork Just Killed [ Insert App Name Here ]</title>
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      <description>Claude Cowork replaces traditional apps with natural language. See real examples of file organization and image creation done in seconds instead of minutes.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Digital Tools</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>apps</category>
      <category>automation</category>
      <category>Claude</category>
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      <title>Bio Content In 2026 – A Bet</title>
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      <description>What is bio content and why 2026 might be its breakout year. I believe 2026 will be the year of &amp;#8220;bio content&amp;#8221;, a.k.a. human generated content, as opposed to AI slop. And I&amp;#8217;m willing to bet on this. As of now, the first official video of my YouTube channel is live. Unsurprisingly,...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:40:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Blogging</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>change</category>
      <category>content creation</category>
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      <title>addTaskManager Has Universal Search</title>
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      <description>addTaskManager 2.6.0 adds full-text search with traveling navigation across all realms. Free tier expanded 10x. Finally find that task you forgot where you put.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:09:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Assess Decide Do</category>
      <category>Productivity and Effectiveness</category>
      <category>addtaskmanager</category>
      <category>app store</category>
      <category>focus</category>
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      <title>Frugality Is Precision, Not Deprivation</title>
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      <description>Frugality isn't about sacrifice—it's about accuracy. Learn the difference between hunger and appetite, and build the gap that keeps you financially resilient.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Financial Resilience</category>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>financial freedom</category>
      <category>financial habits</category>
      <category>frugality</category>
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      <title>AI and the Golden Era of Instant Gratification</title>
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      <description>AI eliminates cognitive friction that built our skills. Explore what happens when delayed gratification disappears and instant results become the norm.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:11:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
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      <title>How To Win a Hackathon in South Korea</title>
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      <description>From learning Korean to winning a blockchain hackathon in Incheon. Here are 4 lessons on seizing opportunities and giving your best when it matters most.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:11:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Location Independence</category>
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      <title>Movie Review: Squid Games, Seasons 2 and 3</title>
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      <description>Squid Game Seasons 2 and 3 complete the saga with Gi-hun's sacrifice. A compelling end that asks harder questions than the original.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:14:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:14:46 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Movie Reviews</category>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>family</category>
      <category>lessons learned</category>
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      <title>LLM Council,  With a Dash of Assess-Decide-Do</title>
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      <description>Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council already follows the Assess-Decide-Do pattern. I made it explicit with a PR that adds cognitive scaffolding. Here's how it works.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:17:43 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Assess Decide Do</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>assess</category>
      <category>decide</category>
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      <title>Don’t Trust, Verify</title>
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      <description>The crypto mantra "don't trust, verify" now applies to all digital life. Practical filters for surviving deepfakes, bots, and AI-generated content.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:53:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:53:42 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Digital Tools</category>
      <category>Relationships and Society</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>change</category>
      <category>cryptocurrency</category>
      <category>decision making</category>
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      <title>Networking 101 for Location Independent People</title>
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      <description>How to build and maintain social connections when you live a location independent life. Real strategies from 10+ years as a digital nomad to combat isolation.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:11:28 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Location Independence</category>
      <category>Meaningful Relationships</category>
      <category>digital nomad</category>
      <category>how to</category>
      <category>lessons learned</category>
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      <title>2025 Year in Review</title>
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      <description>2025 year in review: cleaning up old projects, adding new tools and getting ready for a challenging 2026.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:05:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:05:18 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Blogging</category>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>addtaskmanager</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>blogging journey</category>
      <category>change</category>
      <category>digital nomad</category>
      <category>family</category>
      <category>growth</category>
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      <title>AI Is the New Marijuana (And We’re All About To Get High)</title>
      <link>https://dragosroua.com//ai-is-the-new-marijuana-and-were-all-about-to-get-high/</link>
      <description>AI creates plausible realities as addictive as drugs. Someone who lived under communism and capitalism sees a new ideological split emerging from this shift.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:05:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:05:48 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Relationships and Society</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>change</category>
      <category>mindset</category>
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      <title>AI Will Never Be Able To Spot True Excellence</title>
      <link>https://dragosroua.com//ai-will-never-be-able-to-spot-true-excellence/</link>
      <description>AI is trained on past patterns and can't recognize disruptive excellence. Like critics who booed Fight Club at Cannes, it will always miss what truly matters.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:48:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:48:34 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>content creation</category>
      <category>creativity</category>
      <category>mindset</category>
      <category>persistence</category>
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      <title>Gravitational Habits for Financial Resilience</title>
      <link>https://dragosroua.com//gravitational-habits-for-financial-resilience/</link>
      <description>My new book on building automatic financial habits is now live on Apple Books, Google Play, and Amazon. Learn the gravitational approach to money resilience.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:19:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:19:13 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Financial Resilience</category>
      <category>books</category>
      <category>financial habits</category>
      <category>habits</category>
      <category>resilience</category>
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      <title>There Are 2 Wolves Inside of You</title>
      <link>https://dragosroua.com//there-are-2-wolves-inside-of-you/</link>
      <description>Personality tests and metaphors like the two wolves can become traps. Learn why symbols limit your growth—and how to reclaim your messy, real self.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:32:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:32:34 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>Spirituality and Beliefs</category>
      <category>introspection</category>
      <category>limiting beliefs</category>
      <category>mindset</category>
      <category>perspective</category>
      <category>self awareness</category>
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      <title>POV: You Accidentally Injected Agent Smith Into The Matrix</title>
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      <description>We watched The Matrix, understood the warning about sentient programs, and then built AI agents anyway. Four scenarios for how this could go wrong.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:31:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:31:28 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Technology</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>coding</category>
      <category>perspective</category>
      <category>wisdom</category>
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      <title>A Day at the Jjim Jil Bang (찜질방) in Saigon, Vietnam</title>
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      <description>Golden Lotus Jjim Jil Bang in Saigon offers Korean spa rooms, saunas, and relaxation for under €30/day. Here's what to expect and why it's worth visiting.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:10:39 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Health and Fitness</category>
      <category>Location Independence</category>
      <category>Travel and Fun</category>
      <category>asia</category>
      <category>digital nomad</category>
      <category>long term travel</category>
      <category>south-korea</category>
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      <title>Can You Stay Relevant After 50, In The Age of AI?</title>
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      <description>After 50, you hold three assets AI can't automate: experience, ethics, and mindset. They compound with time. That's not a disadvantage—it's your edge.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:modified>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:52:06 GMT</dc:modified>
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      <author>dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua)</author>
      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Financial Resilience</category>
      <category>Personal Development</category>
      <category>change</category>
      <category>financial freedom</category>
      <category>financial habits</category>
      <category>mindset</category>
      <category>personal story</category>
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      <title>3 AI Skills For Better Content Creation</title>
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      <description>Open-source AI tools / Claude skills for content creators: link analysis, batch SEO updates, and smart CTA injection. Built during a real migration, now open source.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:01:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>Blogging</category>
      <category>Digital Tools</category>
      <category>ai tools</category>
      <category>automation</category>
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