Hello internet person,

Welcome to a new transmission from the ToasterVerse.

September was... not exactly a productivity highlight reel.

I was sick for roughly two to three weeks, my energy disappeared into the void, and a lot of the ambitious plans I had quietly turned into:

maybe tomorrow.

Still, some things happened.

Last month I spent way too much time on:

• Making my computers accessible from basically anywhere

• Adding more monitoring and error handling to my increasingly ridiculous personal infrastructure

• Thinking about AI, automation, and the growing gap between people actively using this stuff and everybody else

• Trying to continue making YouTube videos despite temporarily misplacing my grindset

Let's begin.

🌶️ HOT TOPIC

What happens when the grindset stops grinding?

For quite a while, I have been operating under a fairly simple assumption:
Build systems. Keep producing. Compound the results. Repeat long enough and eventually something happens.
And technically, that system still works.
Even during a month where I was sick, tired, and generally not very interested in conquering the universe, things still got done.
That is exactly why I build systems in the first place.

But there is another problem that systems cannot completely solve:

You still need to actually care.
I still want the project to work.
I still want to reach the 100-video milestone I set for myself before seriously judging whether this whole experiment is working.
But right now, I am in a rut.
The interesting part is that I am learning something from it.
There is a huge difference between motivation and momentum.

Motivation says:

LET'S BUILD THE FUTURE.

Momentum says:

It is Tuesday. The task exists. Guess we're doing this.

The second one is considerably less cinematic, but much more useful.
So for now, I am trying to keep the machine moving without pretending every week needs to be high baseline week.
Maybe the grindset comes back.
We'll see.

🎬 New Content

New Video: Is Karma real?

This is about the strange feeling that
The world somehow feels weirdly karmic.
And sometime it looks like people get what they are asking for.
I am not particularly proud of that video project.
the delivery is horrible and I hated every minute of editing
But I pushed through :D

Watch here:

New Video: Above Normie Baseline

How to train yourself to be productive by default.
Ironic that I picked exactly that topic,
when I am currently at a lower baseline and in a rut.
lol

Watch here:

New Shorts:

Just the corresponding shorts to the latest long form videos:

KARMA:

Above Normie Baseline:

🧠 Things I Learned Recently

One thing became extremely obvious this month:
Good systems become most valuable when you are operating badly.
Anybody can use a productivity system when they are motivated.
The real test is whether your life still functions when you are sick, tired, distracted, or simply cannot be bothered.
That is where recurring tasks, checklists, automation, reminders, monitoring, templates, and all the boring infrastructure suddenly become very useful.
I also spent more time thinking about the current AI acceleration gap.
There is a strange split happening.
On one side, people are using AI agents, automation, code generation, research tools, and increasingly powerful models to radically increase what one person can do.
On the other side, there are still plenty of people who have barely used ChatGPT.
For now, that creates a very real capability gap.
But I am increasingly convinced that the gap will eventually shrink again.
Once AI becomes less like "learn how to use AI" and more like a giant green button that simply does things, a lot of the advantage currently held by technical early adopters will disappear.

🖥️ Behind The Scenes

🎬 Growing ToasterBotnet

Not much explosive growth to report this month.
The channel is still small.
Growth is still slow.
And after spending a long time producing videos without seeing the kind of traction I hoped for, motivation has taken a hit.
My original plan was to make at least 100 proper long form videos before seriously reevaluating the project.
I still think that is the right benchmark.
So the current objective is fairly simple:
Keep going long enough to reach the point where I actually have enough data to judge the experiment properly.
That means fewer dramatic declarations about "the grind" and more boring consistency.
Which, annoyingly, is probably how most worthwhile things are built anyway.

🎥 Upcoming Videos

Next Video will be about Albert Camus, Absurdism and how to find meaning in life:

⚙️ Tool Of The Month

Cloudflare WARP

This month's tool is Cloudflare WARP.
Not because it is particularly exciting.
Because it quietly solved an annoying problem extremely well.
I have a bunch of self-hosted services, servers, dashboards, scripts, and machines that I occasionally want to access remotely.
Instead of exposing everything directly to the public internet, I can connect my devices through Cloudflare's private network and access the infrastructure almost as if I were sitting at home.
Combined with SSH and VNC, this has turned my laptop into a surprisingly capable remote control for my entire setup.
It's like a VPN but not quite like a VPN. And I don't depend on a static public IP or DynDNS to make it work, which was the reason for this choice in the first place.

It is one of those infrastructure improvements where the actual feature is useful, but the bigger benefit is psychological:
Always having my entire digital infrastructure with me wherever I go feels super comfy.

📬 Get in touch.

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Tell me:

• What project you're building

• What problem you're stuck on

• What you're currently obsessed with

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Stay weird.