Co-founder, TaskCoach.AI
David
David is the co-founder of TaskCoach.AI and writes about the product, AI coaching systems, and the reasoning behind TaskCoach features.
Editorial focus: TaskCoach product design, AI coaching, life operating systems, and product comparisons.
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Articles by David
The Brain In Layers: Every Major Region Explained (And How Yours Compares To A Lizard's)
Your skull contains three brains stacked on top of each other. The lizard one in the basement, keeping you alive while you sleep. The mammal one in the middle, running your emotions and memory. And the primate one on top, the one writing and reading this sentence right now. Here's a tour of every major region, what it actually does, and how the same architecture looks in animals that share a smaller piece of the stack with you.
Why Your Notion Life OS Template Dies By Week Three (And What Actually Works)
The template was never the problem. Becoming the unpaid database administrator of your own life was. An honest look at Notion life OS alternatives, including the option of staying put.
The 7 Best AI Life Coach Apps in 2026, Compared
A source-backed comparison of TaskCoach, Purpose, Rosebud, Mindsera, Habit Coach AI, Beyond Time, and Habidu with real screenshots and prices.
25 ChatGPT Life Coach Prompts You Can Copy and Use
Copy-ready ChatGPT coaching prompts for goal clarity, weekly reviews, habits, decisions, self-talk, and accountability, starting with one master setup prompt.
TaskCoach.AI Review, Written by the Person Who Built It
You searched for a TaskCoach.AI review and found one written by a co-founder. That's a real conflict of interest, so this one leads with the cons instead of burying them.
TaskCoach v0.15: The Consolidation Update
A sweeping optimization and bugfix pass touches the entire app, and three new tools make planning your day easier: a Personalized News Aggregator, Dynamic Goals, and the new Plan Day feature.
The Silicon-Carbon Continuum: Why Consciousness Is a Real-Time Mathematical Loop
For a hundred years, every theory of consciousness has been built by staring at the only conscious thing we had: the wet brain. Now we've built frozen-weight LLMs, systems that share a brain's math but are missing one specific feature. What disappears between the conscious case and the unconscious one might be the whole answer.
The Human Energy Stack: The 5-Tier System That Powers Everything You Do
Energy isn't one thing you either have or don't. It runs across five levels at once, from ATP synthesis inside your mitochondria to the simple question of why you get out of bed. Fix the wrong level and nothing changes.
How to Upgrade Your Energy Stack: The Blueprint for Permanently Higher Baseline Energy
The first two pieces in this series mapped your energy stack and showed how every drug, from coffee to crystal meth, hijacks it. This piece is the fix: the full protocol for permanently raising your baseline energy. Bigger mitochondria. Higher VO₂ max. A sharper neurochemical dashboard. Stable cortisol. An aligned circadian rhythm. The blueprint, dose by dose, drill by drill.
How Caffeine, Alcohol, Cocaine, and Meth Hijack Your Energy Stack
Every stimulant, depressant, and nootropic you've ever taken does the same thing: it rewrites the neurochemical commands that decide how your cells spend their ATP. Some pay off. Some borrow at obscene interest. One of them sets the warehouse on fire. Here's exactly how each one bends the stack, and why the biological bill always shows up.