If you have significant influence over ASI going well, I’m working to help more people like you…
Decide what to do next instead of being overwhelmed
Stop avoiding someone so you can do something valuable
Make a hard decision without doubting it
Write something you’ve been avoiding
Do the thing you’d do if you had more courage
What’s the most important thing you need to do? If you like what I write about, come do it live. Receipts later on this page.
I definitely wouldn’t’ve done anything like this without being directed at it by you or spending money. [What you showed me two weeks ago] seems to have already materially improved my life by making my actions more interpretable. Previously there was a contentious relationship with myself, where my ‘other self’ was annoying, not interpretable, hard to steer, and had to be negotiated with.
—Anthropic MTS, September 2026
If you don’t know what your most important thing is, great, we’ll address that.
If it’s your first time, I need you to read a short book first so you can learn a prerequisite skill. You’ll do this on my couch in SF (or live if we call); it takes about an hour.
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Refundable deposit paid with your annual education stipend. Ask for the deposit back if you aren’t satisfied. My help is mostly pay on results so incentives stay aligned.
References
Most people I’ve helped with are people who wish to remain confidential. Ask me for references:
Anthropic people
“I got exactly the results I intended to” —OpenAI
More people from more labs and AI companies; Daniel Tan
People outside of ASI: well-known crypto founder/writer, founder of $100m+ company; people did what you want to do.
Public receipts
When applicable, I track outcomes years later:
A lab researcher wanted to share more disagreeable takes but held back when it involved disagreeing with colleagues he looked up to. After two conversations in late 2024, he started expressing disagreements to anyone and eventually lost all hesitation. 18 months later he says he almost forgets this was ever a bottleneck for him. (Reference available iff same lab.)
In 2024, an engineer wanted to be more agentic. We spoke once and within a month he was pulling coworkers into harder projects and doing things he used to avoid. Eight years of therapy had previously not solved this. As of 2026, he’s still like this.
Emergent Misalignment coauthor Daniel Tan wanted to do more alignment research but kept losing weeks to burnout. Willpower and deadlines would help, but only temporarily. In the summer of 2025 we had eight calls. In the year since, he says long periods of burnout no longer happen and he recovers faster. He makes decisions faster without overthinking. He also regained ~5 hours per day from distractions. Full post. Videos.
Chris Lakin@chrislakinMost guessed psychedelics / money / AI. Nope. I interviewed him
Chris Lakin @chrislakinI once worked with an AI researcher who, at the age of 27, suddenly became an intuitive person. He went from being introverted, asexual, and frugal his whole life to hosting hot pot parties, asking people out, and buying clothes because they “match his vibe”8:53 PM · Dec 18, 2025 · 776K Views20 Replies · 45 Reposts · 1.58K Likes
Another lab researcher wanted to share more in professional, romantic, and social relationships. Seven years of meditation, 150 hours of IFS therapy, and many retreats helped a bit but he still held back. Within two weeks of our first chat in mid 2024, he began expressing romantic attraction without delaying. After three more conversations, he started naturally disagreeing with colleagues, being direct with his mom, and texting friends “I miss you” even though we never discussed these. (So it was generalization, not Goodhart.) A few months later we recorded the video below, and a few months after that he asked out a girl he liked and entered a happy relationship (screenshot). They’ve been together over a year now. Now that he no longer needed to meditate, he joined an AI lab where he negotiated and stood up for himself, etc.
Most of my more recent clients are very private, so to hear more results you can either ask me for references or trust the anonymized stories here.
