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Your Life as an Experiment

Steve Alvesteffer
January 11, 2026

I’ve always been a fan of A.J. Jacobs’ fun life experiments. As I do with every book I read, I took copious notes as I read his book My Life as an Experiment. Typically, I would go through my notes and pull out twelve gems that I found most useful to share on this blog. This time around, I decided to hand my notes over to Gemini AI to help me find those gems.

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Generating Fantasy Names by Rolling Dice

Steve Alvesteffer
November 6, 2025

You don’t need to be particularly creative, use artificial intelligence, or any fancy software to come up with good names. I’ve devised a system where you can come up with decent names simply by rolling dice and combining results from a set of tables.

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A Simple Rules Change for Faster Dungeons & Dragons Sessions

Last Year’s Top Baseball Prospects

Why Do You Collect What You Collect?

The All-Topps Era Baseball Mega All-Star Team

Eighteen Days in Taiwan

Building Relationships and the Abundance of Life

Greatest Hits: Metallica

This is How We Fix the United States Postal Service

The 2025 Future Hall of Famers Baseball Team

Dungeons & Dragons Visual Aids

Greyhawk-style Name Generators

Chinese to English Translator (code only)

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