"The polymath on a houseboat edition"

1. The Year in Questions

This year I exchanged more than 4,200 messages with ChatGPT.

My top categories say a lot about how my brain works:

• Medical deep dives — from femoral shaft fractures to endocrine loops. (Amélie used chat to prep for her Med school admission test, so don't worry! All healthy)
• Product strategy and Playbook concepting — slides, microlearning, mentor mindsets.
• AI-powered visuals — Atlantis in Ibiza, a “savant notebook,” magical houseboat scenes.
• Travel planning — especially for Amélie’s gap-year in Southeast Asia. (Again Amélie, I left it in, because like with Spotify Wrapped when you have a family it all becomes an eclectic mess - K3 to Metallica to deep Afro House)
• Running & performance — the quest for a sub-25:00 5K and Hyrox readiness.m

It’s an eclectic mix, but somehow it all fits.

2. My Persona Match:

“Inventor in Perpetual Beta”

ChatGPT would label me as the type who:

• prototypes faster than most people think,
• moves fluidly between disciplines,
• and never stops iterating — on products, ideas, or myself.

Perpetual Beta isn’t a phase; it’s a lifestyle.

3. Recurring Themes of the Year

A few motifs kept resurfacing:

Learning science — “Make It Stick,” cognitive load, teaching models.

Mentor mindset — for teams, for governments, for my own kids.

Health & performance — nutrition, injuries, metabolism, sleep.

Serendipity — with an occasional black swan drifting through the frame.

Visual thinking — because words alone rarely feel enough.

4. My Most Used Prompts

Looking back, a few phrases are basically my fingerprints:

• “Can you explain this more broadly?”
• “Slide 2, please.”
• “Make it sound like Leo.”
• “And now in Playbook style.”
• “Can you visualise this for me?”
• “…and add a bit of humour.”

A strangely accurate biography of how I work.

5. Top Images I Generated This Year

A personal highlight reel:

• A surreal portrait of me on the houseboat — kids included, Playbook cameo hidden inside.
• A chaotic savant-style notebook — drawings, scribbles, cappuccino rings.
• A blurred black swan floating through Amsterdam — because I couldn’t resist.
• Mycelium-infused Atlantis landscapes in Ibiza.
• Ghibli-inspired travel diaries for Amélie.

Half artwork, half introspection.

6. My Peak Chat Hours

Patterns emerged:

• 14:00–16:00 → strategic clarity
• 23:00–01:00 → creative chaos
• During long walks → unexpected breakthroughs per kilometre

The rhythm of a wandering mind living on water.

7. My Micro-Genre

If Spotify wrapped my thinking into a genre, it would be:

“Techno-mycelial-parenting-philosophy with a hint of medical-school prep.”

Try to shelve that in any bookstore.

8. My 2025 Superpower

Everything I touched this year — from a cappuccino on the table to a medical diagram — somehow turned into a concept, a prototype, a Playbook module, or a startup seed.

Not intentionally. Just… default mode.

9. Most Referenced Characters of the Year

The recurring cast:

• Haruki Murakami
• Nassim Taleb
• David Mitchell
• My kids
• Various Dutch civil servants who don’t yet know they need a Playbook.

10. Closing the Wrapped

My year with ChatGPT wasn’t just a set of conversations.

It was an evolving workshop — a place where strategy, science, art, parenting, entrepreneurship, humour, and curiosity collided.

If Spotify Wrapped captures what you heard,

ChatGPT Wrapped might capture what you thought —

or at least what you tried to understand, build, question, or improve.

And as always:

Everything stays in Perpetual Beta.