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26 days, Sep 24 to Oct 19

Chris Naylon3 min read

Chris Naylon's story, his own experience: 26 days, Sep 24 to Oct 19, 2026.

I'd been using Grok for a while, mostly to research and argue through things on long drives. On September 24, driving home from St. Augustine, I got to thinking. Everybody's talking about AI and most of us, me included, are just reading headlines about it. So that same day I downloaded the Grok Bot app and started learning it on my own personal stuff: email, finances, health.

Here's how the 26 days went, one card at a time.

  • SEP 24, The drive home. Long drive home from St. Augustine, talking it through with Grok. Somewhere on that road I decided to actually learn this AI stuff.
  • SEP 24, Downloaded the app. Same day. Started on my own stuff: email, money, health. Hit the limits within 48 hours.
  • WEEK 1, One bot, then a team. First bot just cleaned up my Gmail. Then a boss, then research, health, money and faith.
  • SEP 28, Daily check-ins. Started checking in on my health three times a day. Sleep, training, food. Simple boxes.
  • LATE SEP / OCT 1, Logging it all. Every workout since late September, then every meal too. I talk, the bot writes it down.
  • OCT 1, Wrote it down. Wrote down every supplement I take. Couldn't name half of them off the top of my head.
  • OCT 2, Weekly check. Started a weekly body-comp check. Same scale, same time. Not chasing a number, just the direction.
  • OCT 13, Garmin back on. Sat in my truck's glovebox for over two years. Charged it, put it on. On my wrist every day since.
  • OCT 14-16, Rather know than guess. First full blood panel and a glucose monitor, same week. At 52 I'd rather know than guess.
  • OCT 15, chrisnaylon.com. Put up my own website. First one I ever built, if you count telling a bot what I wanted.
  • OCT 16-19, Two sites and a new logo. Built hammerkeellabs.com from scratch, rebuilt chrisnaylon.com, and gave Hammerkeel a new logo. Both went live on launch day.
  • OCT 19, First find. One of the bots found a bill sitting on the wrong card. Right in front of me the whole time.

That's the story I want to tell. Not a pitch, and I'm not an expert. Just a regular guy finding out what this stuff can do when you point it at your own life, and writing down what happens, good and bad.

See all 12 cards on the timeline, or read the whole why on About Chris.