This Week
- Running my second improved version of the SignalOS Workshop!
- What I’m learning about beliefs and what I call Brain Predictions
- Sharing some social exchanges and raw thoughts this week
October 2026
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Where In The World Was I?
- Bali, Indonesia
Metrics From The Week
Snaps From The Week
The Bounce Back
After being sick last week, I woke up Sunday to the highest HRV and the lowest resting heart rate that I’ve seen in maybe over a year… AND I worked out Saturday evening ~5:30-6pm… This was wild… Monday was quite good as well…
I’ve been “stuck” at this what feels like a ceiling for my HRV and a floor for my RHR for a loooong time and couldn’t quite figure out how to break through it.
This showed me that I might be missing something here…
My current best theory is something around de-loading and actual rest + recharge. Though it doesn’t seem super clear cut. Because I trained BOTH Friday and Saturday, and Sunday+Monday hit records, so it wasn’t as clear as “day off => next day recovery elevated.” That I can’t quite figure out. But I’m still leaning towards something about carrying stress or load or something.
Maybe not a surprise, my RHR climbed back up slowly over the course of the week back to that floor, HRV was about similar, kinda fell down a bit.
So anyways, this is something I would’ve never realized had I not had the actual data and numbers behind it.
Something I’m keeping on my mind, there’s something here… Because if my body can do it once, I’m sure it can do it again.
Morning Routine Video
I had fun this week recording this morning routine parody video. Woke up, first thing within 30 seconds, grab the camera so I can record my alarm going off. Then started thinking about the next shot. Still waking up lol, too many decisions, but slowly got it going, made coffee.
This was my creative flow for this week. It was kind of this hazy vision, “something about my morning routine, probably make a parody or joke or something” and then shooting all the b-roll, getting more ideas come to me, looking for inspiration online, finding a song that captures it, then starting to put the ideas to life.
Happy with the finished video!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ddz-wkNT-Cc
The SignalOS Workshop v2!!
I ran another workshop this week!
I made a bunch of tweaks and changes from the first one I ran ~3 weeks ago. But this time instead of running it inside the community I did last time, I opened it up to anyone. I had just a couple people come from seeing my videos/stories, but I did a bunch of outreach messages and that’s what got the most people in it.
It was like Tuesday? when I decided to announce it, and decided on Friday afternoon/evening as the best potential time. I was like well I have 3 days, normally it’d be better to have ~5-7, but fuck it haha. I’m at a point where I’m close to my 1-1 capacity, so this was mostly about getting reps in of this workshop, improving it, starting conversations, and if someone new signs on, great.
Had something like 14 people say yes, ~12-13 people show up over the course of the workshop. Thought it was pretty good!
Shared more about my story, the main section was mostly the same, just made some tweaks to the flow and slides, and then this time made a bigger change to the end portion.
Last time I found that I was teaching too much. I went into multiple components of SignalOS and talked about what they are and how they work. The general sense was that people felt like they had everything they needed and I didn’t open enough of a gap for people to want to go deeper with me. I knew this would happen. I’m a teacher-type 😂
Despite that I had 3 booked calls and signed 2 new clients from that last workshop so it wasn’t THAT bad apparently.
But this time I tweaked that part, briefly mentioned those components, and then talked more about how this SignalOS is just the first stage/phase and the deeper work that happens after around intentionality and rewiring beliefs.
Thought it went well! Had a bigger portion of people drop off this time, a bit less interactive, but still happy with how it went, happy with the upgrade to the workshop and methodologies, and already booked a followup call with someone that got a lot of value from the workshop! He gave me some great feedback as well.
It’s kind crazy that whatever 6-8 weeks ago I was terrified of running a workshop/webinar, felt all this resistance to it, that it’d be too salesy, what if no one shows up… and now I’ve run 2 and they’ve gone incredibly well, and people have been basically giving me the opposite feedback, that it’s SUPER tactical and valuable.
Walk
That night, my brain was fried. I went to openhouse and then just went for a long night beach walk ~40 min. It was night to just move, walk, clear and settle the mind a bit.
It’s also sooooo hard to get steps in here in Bali, so that was another reason I went.
Runamuk
I’ve been eating lunch much more at this cafe called Runamuk. They have these “performance boards” or whatever they call them.
The Keto Board: Chicken, tenderloin, avocado, spinach, 3 eggs, butter, honey + added on a portion of sourdough = $17.72
It’s a bit on the pricier end for Bali, but when you factor in the tenderloin, it’s actually quite a good deal IMO. And bro the quality and taste is soooooo good. I feel so grateful for the cafes here in Bali.
Social
Was sitting at Nirvana outside, saw this absolutely gorgeous girl sit down in front of me. Then I see and recognize her book, courage to be disliked. Get the idea of saying something, but this time I stopped and thought about what my brain prediction was. Turned out to be about saying something wrong and feeling embarrassed, it was nothing about going up and starting a conversation, at least now using the situational opportunity about the book.
So then went up and started a conversation about her book and it went super well, just got her name, knew she’d be around, and walked off. Great exchange! And proud of getting the brain prediction!
Another night, sitting at Butter Protein club in Seseh, “this fucking crazy beautiful brunette sits down next to me. I was like fuck me.” [as written in my journal 😂]
She went to the bathroom and came back, no eye contact. I went to the bathroom and came back to hopefully open an opportunity, still wasn’t sure. Brain prediction was against the “excuse me you’re really beautiful” line.
Sat down, she finishes a voice note and so I go “French?” An she goes “no German” and we start talking.
End up talking the full night while eating. Kinda went flat some silences, so I pulled out the smoothie question and she liked it lol. Ended with a I would love to see you again and she went I’m sure we’ll see each other again I’m here every day. Neutral deflection. But still proud and great rep, she was open and positive!
Another night sitting in the sauna, this girl talking to her friend about Saturday brunch event, realized it’s the same one I go to, so started chatting. The girl asked me where I’m from in the U.S., she’s from LA and I give that joking “ewwww LA” face, later she says she’s been surfing here once but the waves weren’t good, and I go “yeah… That’s what they all say” and bro it was like slow motion watching her kind of nod and then the lightbulb moment when she realized I was making fun of her and she kind of squinted and I don’t remember what she said but I kinda chuckled.
She got me back later about swimming, I said I used to swim, shes like oh like Michael Phelps? And I said yeah I got second place, and she’s like “ah so that’s why you’re here haha.” I just remember thinking daaaaaamnnnnn where did these jokes come from I’m feeling good tonight! Fresh!
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Thoughts From The Week
202609290715 Morning content block
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Sup. What's on the mind this pagi? Chat with [name] last night at Butter Protein. The brain prediction that if I told her she's beautiful she'd shut down and then it'd be awkward, so I was looking for some opportunity to say something. It's interesting how many times, opportunities have come from or after I literally started moving, I thought that was interesting. [name] at Seseh St Cafe was the same, sitting there, overthinking overthinking, got up, went to the bathroom, and it was this like "okay _now_ is the opportunity if you were to ever do it" almost this deadline. Kinda similar last night, got up and went to the bathroom, came back, sat down, and it was like 5 seconds later I heard her speaking, thought it was French, so the curiosity was able to step in and I went "French?"
But this was now the second Brain Prediction I've had. And I'm now seeing the value in the Brain Prediction, particularly _in the moment._ It's like, it allows you to think of what _exactly_ you're afraid of happening and the criteria for it. I realized from [name] two days ago, the courage to be disliked book girl, that my brain prediction wasn't about going up, talking, it going poorly, it was about me stuttering, saying something wrong, and _embarrassing_ myself. I thought that was so interesting. It almost like _loosened_ up my tension around going up, because I was like, huh, so it's not even about me going up and saying something, I can do that, and I could feel myself _able_ to do that. That also felt a bit like an "easy mode" rep. Book = natural curiosity situational opportunity starter. I was on my way out anyways. So it's like, if it goes well, I can just bail. Easy. And I started thinking in that moment, well hold on this one is kinda not fair, it's too easy, because she's got the book, I can say something because of the book. So I thought that was kind of funny as well.
But these Brain Predictions... I'm starting to see the value. [name] had these two calls yesterday, and she was saying how she didn't pitch to them or sell them because of X Y Z reasons, friends, they were together, etc. And I was trying to get her to formulate this into an if-then prediction.
It's making me want to update the [[202607310923 Everything about Beliefs|Everything about Beliefs]] note again and continue from that AI summary. This shit is powerful.
...202609291819 Feeling more impatient lately
#journal
Started noticing this come up the last couple days.
I feel more impatient. Less patient.
I'm getting more of these thoughts, driving, someone is being slow, and I'm like "c'mon bro." It's not only this but that's an example of the type of thought I've been hearing more.
Why? Not sure. It feels related to this idea of having less time, more focused, this idea that I don't want to waste my time anymore because now I'm more busy
But I'm also questioning like... Is this insecurity or something?
Idk I don't used to have these thoughts as much. Definitely had the critical voice, but in Bali? In Bali I feel like I haven't.
And with local staff, I've kind of been more just like "thank you" instead of the "oh my gosh you're so kind" type of happy reaction.
I feel a little more dull. maybe? Idk if that statement true thought.
Also this is not everything. I have counter evidence. Chatting with [name] maybe yesterday I think going to the gym, chatted for a while at the front making jokes and having fun and laughing.
Thought I'd capture it at least.
And JUST NOW food came out at Butter Protein, staff girl smiling here you go, I felt her happiness and went "thank you, I love your smile!"
Update 10/4/26:
This has since settled down a bit. I notice it the most when I'm _trying to be somewhere,_ when I've got 1 hour until a call and I'm waiting for food, driving on the scooter feeling late.
But I noticed a couple times this past week I just felt so much more happy and grateful to people.
At the same time I noticed this thought/feeling I think last night when I was pressured to eat dinner before my evening call.
Interesting!
Brain Predictions
202610030717 Morning journal - Border Coffee
#journal
Pagi. I'm at Border Coffee this morning.
Things on my mind?
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BROOO so I came back home, asked AI for any ideas on this note, it pulled out Brain Predictions, and I'm like woah okay that's helpful, then had it sift through my vault for my brain predictions and approach examples. Finally decided to create my own proof log and HOLY SHIT is this helpful.
I just made a video talking to myself and like my mind is blown. I'm actually super excited to run this in the moment. Pull up the Brain Prediction, look at my actual note, stay with the feeling, and go up with this mindset of "let me actually test this prediction" because I look at my ACTUAL LIVED EXPERIENCE for a lot of these and I'm like... sooooo where's my lived experience evidence that _validates_ this prediction? Where's the "and then she rejected me, it was awkward, it was devastating, everyone laughed at me..." I'm like uhhhhh. This is freakin' crazy bro.
CRAZY.
And like I said, this is the easy part, but this is literally [[202609090724 The Four Parts of Behavior Change]]! Awareness is first. Now I need an Interruption, which it helped me create, the in the moment protocol, Notice, Stay, Move... Then I need repetitions, Move, and collect the evidence into my Proof Log here enough times that it actually shifts my Belief in the moment.
Man this coaching thing and creating all these structures and frameworks.... SOO COOOLLLLL.
OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED WAIT. WHAT IF I RAN THE PREDICTION BREAK. THIS IS LITERALLY DESIGNED FOR THIS WHAT THE FUCK. OKAY I NEED TO MAKE A GUIDED AUDIO AND RUN THIS ON MYSELF WTF THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT ITS DESIGNED FOR. MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION AND JUXTAPOSITION. WTF THIS IS CRAZY.
This morning (yesterday, Saturday) was kind of wild.
I was journaling in the morning, and one of the biggest points of resistance I notice in my life is these desires to maybe say something or start a conversation with someone (mostly girls) and then talking myself out of it.
I’ve made SO MUCH progress on this over the last year, holy shit, but there’s still an edge here. I find if there’s a shared social situation or situational opportunity, it’s pretty easy.
So anyways, I was journaling, then chatting back and forth with AI and it was surfacing my own framework of Brain Predictions, which I started actually bringing to mind IN the moment when I see someone. And WOW even just that has been helpful. It turns a vague resistance into a very clearly and narrowly scoped prediction with the implied understanding that it might just not be true.
But I had this AI scrape through the last year of notes in my vault, looking for where I talked about this, journaled about what’s holding me back, etc. and it pulled out all these beliefs and a root belief underneath all of it. Then had it put it into the same format I use for my Proof Log and Belief Ladder ideas.
And WOW my mind was blown, they were/are the exact thoughts that I hear in my head in these situations.
And then it started showing me MY OWN collected evidence of starting conversations, and how I literally had almost zero evidence FOR the brain prediction beliefs that I was holding on to… In fact, all my evidence was for the opposite.
So I was reading this, just dumbfounded seeing this all formatted in this particular way, showing me the EXACT thoughts and showing me my own lived experiences that counter them so specifically.
As I was reading through this and putting it together… I was like hooooooly shit, I think I’m onto something here with these Brain Predictions. I mean I know I’ve been using AI to research these ideas and learn how beliefs and behavior works, but to see it in the real world applied… and then to BE in the real world and NOTICE a difference in my behavior… THAT is the wild part.
So anyways, over the last couple weeks, I think I wrote about it 2 weeks ago, I’ve been dabbling in how hypnotherapy works with memory reconsolidation and juxtaposition. I’ve been spending more and more time on the belief side of behavior and coaching, learning and understanding more about how beliefs actually work and how you actually update them.
And this has been super interesting to me.
And then I started applying it more and more on calls with clients, asking for their if-then brain predictions, pulling them out, clarifying them, testing them, and seeing their reactions to that.
I’m so excited. This shit is so cool.
I feel so lucky and grateful that I get to do this.
Inspiration
Also, a friend of mine started posting some of her journals to her new blog this week and I read through a couple of them.
And wow it was sooooo interesting reading, seeing her thoughts, questions about life, sharing her lived experience, sharing such vulnerable things, but also relatable things.
I remember reading it and it just made me feel so much more connected in that moment.
But also just really inspired…
That feeling of like… understanding someone at the human level, recognizing their same thoughts, seeing them think through ideas, sharing vulnerability and their authenticity.
And it made me feel so inspired to share more on these posts that I already write every week 😂
I do still draw a line with what I share every week (publicly), there’s things that I still don’t share publicly and hide. And I still find it hard sometimes to share when things aren’t going well. But, I’ve noticed over the last handful of months, sometimes I just sort of copy+paste from my notes into these blog posts, just throw them together, rather than expand on them and share more… And that’s what I’d love to try to sprinkle in more of.
I don’t know exactly who reads these because the view counts are always more than the number of people I KNOW read these blog posts 🤔…
But I hope that in sharing my thoughts, learnings, hopefully authenticity, questions, vulnerability, that I can inspire that same feeling that I got this week reading my friend’s posts.
Because in a world full of AI and people sharing so confidently online, people with agendas, people trying to get views, make money (myself included!)… I think we’ve lost the human side… the “this is what I’m thinking, this is what I’m experiencing… and… maybe I don’t know what happens next…”
And that’s EXACTLY one of the reasons I still write these blog posts… Because they have no agenda…
What’s Next?
Definitely not another workshop this week LOL