I just published the most personal thing I've ever written. Full story here: https://aligncore.ai/letters/i-spent-175k-on-self-help/ The short version: I spent 15 years and $175,000 from my inherited childhood home trying to fix myself. Self-help books. Motivational seminars. A SPECT brain scan where they told me my brain had small dips like someone had been scooping it out with a tiny spoon to taste it like frozen yogurt. They prescribed a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and $600-every-six-months supplements. I stopped ordering a year ago. I'm still alive. I bought 250 copies of Ed Mylett's book just to spend a day at his house. His neighbors were Adele and Justin Bieber. He was tan and intense and cool. I cheered. I felt awe. But deep down all of it felt like a stage performance: beautiful, emotional, motivational... but rehearsed. It's like I was watching a 2025 video generation AI produce an intimate scene in real time right in front of me: cool looking. No real intimacy. At least that's what I saw with the mindset that I had at that time. I didn't realize that until later. I did 75 Hard while working nine-hour FedEx routes. Made it 28 days before I started forgetting package numbers and losing my train of thought mid-sentence. My manager said I was one of the fastest AND most accurate drivers they'd ever had. So the discipline was clearly there. The direction wasn't. None of it stuck. Not because the advice was bad because I think every single guru taught me something real. But I never stopped to ask the obvious question: does this make sense for ME? I figured it out by accident. I was SO excited when this feature came out: I connected ChatGPT to my journals in Notion. I was looking for patterns. I was looking for anything that could give me something. Something that made sense to me. A sign that I had core values. That I had a North Star. The response made me tear up. A thread I'd never seen: every meaningful thing I'd ever done (the dance crew with my brothers, the dot technique I invented for Color Guard, the systems I built at every job) was the same thing.

Most of us don’t struggle because we lack a plan or a skill. We struggle because a part of us is still on mute. You can be posting, learning, and ‘doing the work.’ But if your inner dialogue is whispering “who am I to do this?” while your hands are typing the sales page… you’re at war with yourself. This isn’t just a mindset block. It’s a profit leak. We were conditioned to outsource our truth... to seek permission, certainty, and validation from everywhere but within. That pattern doesn't just stifle creativity; it silences pricing confidence, dilutes offers, and keeps brilliant work in the drafts folder. You cannot build a bold business with a hesitant identity. Here’s a 60-second practice to reconnect (no fixing, no forcing): The Founder's Gut Check 1. Pause. Take one deep breath. 2. Say to yourself: “I need more credentials before I can charge this.” 3. Don’t think. Just feel. Does your body feel expansive (open, calm) or contracting (tight, heavy)? 4. Now try: “My experience is valid, and my offer creates real change.” 5. Notice the shift. Name it. Expansive or Contracting? Your nervous system holds a truth your overthinking mind debates. An expansive feeling is a green light. A contracting one is your body’s red flag. This week, use this check before you: - Hesitate to post that Reel - Discount your price - Say “I’m just brainstorming” instead of “I’m building” Drop a👇 below with one word: what came up for you EXPANSIVE or CONTRACTING? Start here. Your clarity... and your profit... are on the other side of that answer.

Developing the landing page now: aligncore.ai/landing Please give feedback. Much appreciated. ps im sorry i havent been active. im working 12 hrs a day 7 days a week to make this happen. 😭 i havent gone to the gym in a year since i started building and working my w2. i quit my job on nov 3rd and i havent seen the sun much since im always in front of the computer. im sad but hopeful. thanks @Lydie Molina for always checking in on me.

I am Aleksej "Physix" Mialitsin. As of October 2025, I am delivering my first Physics Intro course, https://sp2.craft.me/physics-intro-autumn2025-fizika7, to my first student: a returning student after completing a Summer Pilot. The course fee collected in September currently provides a four-month runway (until around New Year's) for the LLC's monthly expenses. *What problem does your business SOLVE or who would you like to SERVE?* My online physics school aims to provide the STEM prerequisites skills for aspiring AP-level high school students, four-year college STEM majors, and community college students with an engineering focus. *Where are you in the world 🌍?* Denver, CO, USA *What gets you FIRED UP about building something that matters?* Testing abstract math against the universe is sanity in a noisy age. While societal narratives multiply, nature still operates according to its laws. Deflect a pendulum, and it will swing as its length and gravity dictate. There aren’t two ways about it. ... What fires me up? 🔥First-principles reasoning that checks out with reality ✔️. *Ready to build something that doesn’t just pay the bills but changes lives (starting with YOURS)?* Yes! Community outreach, bringing physics demos to Denver colleges, would be the ultimate dream! https://vimeo.com/164479968/ab6039052a *What do you like to do for fun? 😊* Locking horns with nature, snowboarding 🏂 in winter, and white water rafting 🚣‍♂️ in summer. *Cat or Dog person... or other?* Bird person 🐥. I have a parakeet named Quetzalcóatl.

I promised myself, @Lydie Molina and everyone else in the group that I’d complete the co-writing feature. The co-writing feature is an AI journaling tool that helps you to uncover your foundational elements (your natural and biological wiring) with the ability to remember and update them as you evolve. This is the first step in making sure you can take steps to make progress in your life to gain the skills that are undeniable and uniquely suited for you and you only. It’s not that sophisticated YET but it will be. I just put together the architecture and the design. Now that it’s done I can layer in sophisticated system prompt for Sky. My next step is to put together the solid architecture for Sky’s memories. I’m using a relational graph database which is designed and built very uniquely and similarly to how a human being thinks. I’m using Neo4j graph database for this. In the future I will be creating a planning feature for you to take it another step further and put your insights into concrete and actionable steps and behaviors to move forward to creating the life and skills that are uniquely YOU. The whole point of AlignCore is so that your abstract purpose turns into relevant skills using first principles thinking so you can pivot at any time especially during the age of AI where things are going to be taken away from you. Maybe artistry would be gone but the meta skills you gain will be transferable because you know how to use it elsewhere. Adaptability and anti-entropy is your super power with AlignCore.