2025 ChatGPT/AI The Duality Of Progress: Why I’m Building A.I.N.D.Y. (Or Any Tool, Really)

You ever use something and think, this just isn’t enough?

You know what the problem is. You can even articulate it. But deep down, you also know no one important enough is going to listen. That’s why I build.

When I started my Master Plan, I didn’t have much. Honestly, I still don’t. I’m only a few months into it — Phase 2, to be exact.

Phase 2 is where it all converges:

Building my social media presence — not just for me, but for the company, which at its core is a Multi-Media Social Media Content Network.
Building the MVP for the A.I.N.D.Y. app (the core was built in three days).
Writing The Duality of Progress (now an article series, later a book).
Drafting The Master Plan novel.
And documenting the whole journey with 100+ thought leadership articles on AI, including the 2025 ChatGPT Case Study Series — over 80 articles written between February 17 and April 5, 2025.

I’ve even been CC’d on LinkedIn by OpenAI’s GM, Leah Belsky, for my “ChatGPT Self-Educated” journey — asking, Is this the future?

Now here’s where it gets real:

When I first started, I was using ChatGPT to track the Master Plan. I’d update it, refine it, iterate across multiple threads. Eventually, it got overwhelming. Not because ChatGPT wasn’t capable — it was. But it wasn’t what I needed.

Too much movement.

Not enough frictionless execution.

It wasn’t the AI’s fault. It was the wrapping around the AI — how it was delivered, structured, limited.

And that’s the duality right there:

AI is limitless, but every tool around it is trying to box it in.

At one point, I asked ChatGPT something simple:

“Why can’t you just do what I imagine you should be able to do?”

That question led me down a rabbit hole — deeper into AI itself. I discovered you could build your own systems. Run models locally. Create Custom GPTs. Design frameworks.

I wasn’t rich enough to train a model from scratch. But I didn’t need to be.

ChatGPT told me the architecture was open-source. The blueprints were out there. And so I started building. At first, I tried Custom GPTs — but they felt more limiting, not less. I needed flow. Not prompts. I needed collaboration , not canned responses.

ChatGPT even said it (paraphrasing):

“Your workflow has outpaced the need for a custom GPT. Prompting only slows you down.”

And I agreed. So I asked:

“How do I build something that can handle the Master Plan?”

Enter the A.I.N.D.Y. App.

It was originally called Optimind. The problem was memory. Context. Execution.

I needed to:

Store and retrieve my own quotes.
Reference decisions and strategies from weeks ago without searching.
Track progress — not just in a spreadsheet, but in real time across a living, breathing plan.

So I started designing A.I.N.D.Y.

At the same time, I dove into content creation, studying algorithms.

That led to the Infinity Algorithm , which I turned into a formula, then a system, then a function inside the app.

That’s when I realized:

AI lets you move in parallel.

Pick something up. Drop it. Come back a week later. Keep building.

And that’s how I work. It’s how I think.

Eventually, I realized ChatGPT just couldn’t remember everything I needed. So I asked:

“Can I use the internet as a database for you? Can I access my files through you without storing everything locally?”

The answer: yes.

So I built a public knowledge base — the 2025 ChatGPT Case Study Series. That became the internet memory I needed.

And here’s the real point:

Everything I’ve done in the past few months is for a reason.

None of it is random.

It’s all part of The Duality of Progress.

Progress demands more.

Tools fall short.

Systems fail.

And when they do — you either complain, or you build.

I build.

Because I was never waiting on someone to make the perfect tool for me.

I am the someone.

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Shawn knight @masterplanner25

2025 ChatGPT/AI The Duality Of Progress: Why I’m Building A.I.N.D.Y. (Or Any Tool, Really)

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