Author

Robert Thompson

@sirchutney

articles: 20
total claps: 2,663
top claps: 324
avg read: 9.3 min
paywalled: 20
active: 2025-09-20 → 2026-07-11

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PSY · Psychology · 12 🚀 · Self Improvement · 9 ⏱️ · Productivity · 6 PSY · Mental Health & Psychiatry · 5 BIZ · Business Strategy · 5 AI · AI · General · 5 🔬 · Science · General · 4 PHI · Philosophy · 3

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#self-improvement ·9 #psychology ·7 #productivity ·6 #life-lessons ·5 #mental-health ·5 #leadership ·4 #writing ·4 #artificial-intelligence ·3 #personal-development ·3 #career-advice ·2

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Deleted ChatGPT and Replaced It With a 2,000-Year-Old Habit.

Day 14 was the worst. By day 41 I’d written more in a notebook than I’d typed into a chat window all year.

May 22, 2026 · 9 min read · 324 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #mental-health #writing

I Deleted ChatGPT and Replaced It With a 2,000-Year-Old Habit.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Almost Sent the £11,000 Email. Then I Remembered What a Roman Slave Knew.

It was 7:52 on a Tuesday. My thumb was already on Reply. The reply would have been correct, and it would have ended the contract.

Jun 26, 2026 · 8 min read · 322 claps paywalled #stoicism #self-improvement #productivity

I Almost Sent the £11,000 Email. Then I Remembered What a Roman Slave Knew.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

How to Spot Fake Competence in 30 Seconds

One question. Seven seconds. That’s the entire test.

May 04, 2026 · 6 min read · 289 claps paywalled #psychology #self-improvement #hiring

How to Spot Fake Competence in 30 Seconds

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

My Most-Read Essay Was About a Bag of Frozen Peas. It Took Me Three Years to Understand Why.

I’d written about death, love, my father. The peas earned more than all of it combined.

May 18, 2026 · 7 min read · 240 claps paywalled #writing #creativity #personal-essay

My Most-Read Essay Was About a Bag of Frozen Peas. It Took Me Three Years to Understand Why.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

My 90-Day ChatGPT Experiment Bottomed Out at $12.43. Quitting Saved My Income.

I spent 90 days writing perfect work that went unread. Today, I discovered why — and here are the exact changes I made to fix it.

Jun 10, 2026 · 6 min read · 171 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #writing #creator-economy

My 90-Day ChatGPT Experiment Bottomed Out at $12.43. Quitting Saved My Income.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Quit Being a ‘Low-Maintenance’ Friend for Two Months (Nobody Was Actually Fine)

A reply six days late, a heart emoji, and a two-month experiment that broke our politest script.

Jul 09, 2026 · 7 min read · 150 claps paywalled #psychology #relationships #mental-health

I Quit Being a ‘Low-Maintenance’ Friend for Two Months (Nobody Was Actually Fine)

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

Why Your Best Ideas Keep Dying in the Feed — And the Cognitive Trap Behind It

You’re not being ignored because your ideas are bad. You’re being ignored because of a cognitive trap that affects every expert — and…

May 07, 2026 · 8 min read · 149 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #writing

Why Your Best Ideas Keep Dying in the Feed — And the Cognitive Trap Behind It

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

Søren Kierkegaard Named Your Anxiety in 1844 (Wellness Coaches Now Resell It at $200/Hour)

Three apps open at 11:47 PM, none of them helping. He saw the cliff before we built one out of every life choice.

May 16, 2026 · 9 min read · 141 claps paywalled #philosophy #anxiety #life-lessons

Søren Kierkegaard Named Your Anxiety in 1844 (Wellness Coaches Now Resell It at $200/Hour)

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

The Day I Stopped Selling Hours and Started Selling a Machine

Quiet three‑stage shift: from guessing every project to a repeatable machine — and finally a Ko‑fi product that earns while I sleep.

Jun 20, 2026 · 18 min read · 120 claps paywalled #entrepreneurship #freelancing #creator-economy

The Day I Stopped Selling Hours and Started Selling a Machine

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

ChatGPT Saves You Ten Minutes. Nobody Mentions the Tax It Charges Later.

I asked a junior colleague a simple question. She opened a tab first. I knew the gesture — I do it too.

Jun 14, 2026 · 10 min read · 119 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #chatgpt #psychology

ChatGPT Saves You Ten Minutes. Nobody Mentions the Tax It Charges Later.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

Stop Chasing Happiness. Become Load-Bearing.

The most meaningful lives I’ve watched up close weren’t the happiest. They were the ones holding weight.

Jul 03, 2026 · 8 min read · 115 claps paywalled #personal-development #meaning #life-lessons

Stop Chasing Happiness. Become Load-Bearing.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

You’re Not Anxious. You’ve Been Trained to Absorb Everyone Else’s Stress.

The neuroscience of emotional contagion — and the 3-second question that breaks the loop.

May 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 110 claps paywalled #emotional-intelligence #mental-health #self-improvement

You’re Not Anxious. You’ve Been Trained to Absorb Everyone Else’s Stress.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Almost Let a Model Make a $3M Call. The Untaught Skill That Stopped Me (And Why AI Never Will)

The forecast was 94% confident and everyone trusted it. I had four minutes to decide if I was braver than the machine or just more…

Jun 03, 2026 · 10 min read · 105 claps paywalled #leadership #decision-making #ai

I Almost Let a Model Make a $3M Call. The Untaught Skill That Stopped Me (And Why AI Never Will)

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Got a $1.4M Decision Wrong in Front of the Board — The Untaught Skill That Still Got Me Promoted.

9:14 a.m. I had 90 seconds to defend a number I’d staked my reputation on — or say four words that my MBA trained me never to say.

May 30, 2026 · 15 min read · 83 claps paywalled #careers #career-advice #career-development

I Got a $1.4M Decision Wrong in Front of the Board — The Untaught Skill That Still Got Me Promoted.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

A $740K Mistake Had Her Name on It — I Took the Blame. The Untaught Skill That Saved Me.

She was 26, watching a red number beside her name fill the room. I had 90 seconds to learn what kind of manager I was. What kind are you?

Jun 06, 2026 · 11 min read · 77 claps paywalled #leadership #management #work

A $740K Mistake Had Her Name on It — I Took the Blame. The Untaught Skill That Saved Me.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

100 Rules I Actually Use (Maybe You Will Too?)

Notes from forty years in business, one year from retirement, and a journal that has finally started telling me the truth.

Jul 11, 2026 · 9 min read · 76 claps paywalled #self-improvement #journaling #retirement

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Tracked My Biological Age for 90 Days. The Cheapest Protocol Won.

How a $500 epigenetic test exposed the $10,000 mistake I almost made

May 01, 2026 · 8 min read · 57 claps paywalled #health #longevity #aging

I Tracked My Biological Age for 90 Days. The Cheapest Protocol Won.

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

Your Productivity System Is Just Procrastination in a Suit

Last January I rebuilt my entire task manager from scratch. It was the most productive I felt all month. I finished nothing.

Jun 28, 2026 · 8 min read · 14 claps paywalled #psychology #productivity #self-improvement

Your Productivity System Is Just Procrastination in a Suit

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RO Robert Thompson · A Fulcrum

I Almost Got Fired. The Skill No College Teaches That Saved My Career (& Tripled My Hourly Rate)

A board member watched me present for ten minutes. Then he asked one question that took me six months to recover from.

May 25, 2026 · 18 min read · 1 claps paywalled #productivity #leadership #career-advice

I Almost Got Fired. The Skill No College Teaches That Saved My Career (& Tripled My Hourly Rate)

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RO Robert Thompson · News and Narrative

A New Definition of Free Speech: The Jimmy Kimmel Controversy Exposes a Radical Reversal

How the “free speech absolutists” became the censors they once opposed

Sep 20, 2025 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #free-speech #kimmel #donald-trump