Inside Rylan’s Mind

In this episode of Inside Rylan’s Mind, I turned my own writing into a game. The Rylan Test is a ten-round game show where listeners have to distinguish between real tweets, fake tweets, and sometimes no truth at all...

I built a simple Excel habit tracker and slowly turned it into a full RPG system with XP, levels, ranks, milestones, and weighted scoring. What started as a clean way to track habits became an over-engineered game...

For most of my life, I didn't know how to wash clothes. Then hostel life forced me into a bizarre journey involving possessed washing machines, a laundry company monopoly, missing clothes, broken zips, a two-month...

A few years ago, a stock app created an offshore bank account for me. I forgot it even existed until the bank introduced a minimum balance policy, forcing me to close an account I no longer used. What should have been a...

I stumbled across a tier list containing over a hundred personality traits and started ranking them based on how attractive I find them in a potential partner. What began as a silly internet exercise quickly turned into...

For the first 23 years of my life, I had never driven a vehicle. Then I decided to get both my bike and car license, and what I expected to be a straightforward process somehow turned into a full-blown saga. From...

In this episode, I talk about going to my first ever Comic-Con alone after years of wanting to attend one. What started as a spontaneous decision turned into something much bigger: an unexpected deep dive into nerd...

I basically talk about the part of tracking your life nobody warns you about, not the tracking itself, but building the actual system behind it. The templates, layouts, rules, formulas, workflows… all that. I realised...

I basically talk about the part of tracking your life nobody warns you about, not the tracking itself, but building the actual system behind it. The templates, layouts, rules, formulas, workflows… all that. I realised...

I talk about how I track habits, workouts, sleep, food, body weight, expenses, media and more using apps + Excel sheets. I share real stats, surprising patterns, progress made, and why data might be one of the best...

I talk about how I track habits, workouts, sleep, food, body weight, expenses, media and more using apps + Excel sheets. I share real stats, surprising patterns, progress made, and why data might be one of the best...

I went into this New Year’s party thinking I might either kill it or completely flop… and somehow I did both. I start off unsure, end up owning the crowd, accidentally become the DJ, and then slowly lose control of the...

I went into this New Year’s party thinking I might either kill it or completely flop… and somehow I did both. I start off unsure, end up owning the crowd, accidentally become the DJ, and then slowly lose control of the...

This episode is basically me going through a tier list of 80+ random pet peeves and deciding which ones are just mildly annoying and which ones make me irrationally angry for no reason. Somewhere in between, I also...

This episode is basically me going through a tier list of 80+ random pet peeves and deciding which ones are just mildly annoying and which ones make me irrationally angry for no reason. Somewhere in between, I also...