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Self Authoring Clone
Jordan Peterson's Self Authoring program, rebuilt as an AI psychologist — you talk about your past, present, and future; it knows exactly where you are and what's next.
The idea is old and powerful: write about your past, your present, and your future, and you come to understand yourself. Jordan Peterson’s Self Authoring program turns that into structured exercises that genuinely work — but they demand hours of reading and writing at a screen.
I rebuilt it as something like an AI psychologist. You don’t read and you don’t write — you talk. The AI guides you through the entire program in conversation: it asks, probes, and pushes back the way a good therapist keeps you honest, and it files everything you say into the program as you go. It always knows where you are — what you’ve finished, what question comes next — and moves you forward. You can work through your past on a morning walk.
Under it is a 162-line coach persona I wrote, driving a Custom GPT that’s connected to the app through a JSON API with a self-served OpenAPI schema. It’s still the real Self Authoring method underneath; the conversation is the interface.
The data-scraping part deserves its own mention: I scraped Jordan Peterson’s entire website with Playwright — every page of all four programs — and rebuilt the whole thing from scratch: a declarative page-type engine covering every exercise type (writing, essay, define, select, rank), autosave, Word export. Eighteen passing tests.
It runs live on my server. Core build: about six hours from scrape to working app — the pattern I keep coming back to: take something that works, rebuild it properly, then let an AI drive it.
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