An ordinary Chinese guy. Building tools with AI, tracking what actually happens, writing about it in English.
Blog: ordinarymantrying.com โ building in public. Real numbers. No spin.
12 figures. 84 pivotal decisions. You go first โ blind โ then see what they actually chose.
Play as Gandhi, Lincoln, Mandela, Curie, Jobs, Musk, Buffett, Disney, Honda, Rowling, Hawking, and Zhang Xue.
Zero login. Zero backend. Pure browser. Built with Claude.
| Simulator | Key decision | Link |
|---|---|---|
| ๐๏ธ Mahatma Gandhi | Suspend a winning movement the moment it turns violent โ or keep going | Play |
| ๐๏ธ Abraham Lincoln | Give a speech your advisors say will cost you the election โ or cut it | Play |
| ๐บ Mandela | Refuse release from prison โ 27 years in โ or accept on their terms | Play |
| โ๏ธ Marie Curie | Leave Warsaw secretly to study physics in Paris โ alone, with no money | Play |
| ๐ผ Steve Jobs | Return to Apple after being fired from your own company | Play |
| ๐ Elon Musk | Put your last $50M into a rocket that keeps exploding | Play |
| ๐ Warren Buffett | Skip dot-com stocks entirely when everyone says you've lost your touch | Play |
| ๐จ Walt Disney | Bet the entire studio on an animated feature โ the industry calls it "Disney's Folly" | Play |
| ๐ง Soichiro Honda | Start over after your factory is bombed. Twice. | Play |
| โ๏ธ J.K. Rowling | Keep writing Harry Potter while on welfare, rejected by 12 publishers | Play |
| ๐ Stephen Hawking | Choose how to respond to an ALS diagnosis at 21 | Play |
| ๐๏ธ Zhang Xue | Race against Ducati on a Chinese-made bike nobody believes in | Play |
The Buffett simulator logic is reconstructed from The Snowball (Schroeder, 2008). If the decisions interest you: ๐ Read the book โ
All simulators โ ordinarymantrying.com/tools/ ยท Open source โ Repos
All free, no login, single HTML file. Built and documented on the blog.
| Tool | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| ๐บ๏ธ Wander China | Drag-and-drop China trip planner for 31 cities. 1-day routes, no login, no signup. | Plan trip ยท Repo |
| ๐ AI Invest OS | 5-question investor personality test + 6 AI tools. Built from 7 real experiments with 8 models. | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ Website Admin & Security Toolkit | 500+ copy-paste commands for Linux/Windows IR, webshell detection, Docker, Nginx, WP-CLI. Editable placeholders. | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ง Mind Traps | 40 psychology laws quiz โ read a real scenario, name the law. Murphy's Law to Goodhart's Law. | Play ยท Repo |
| ๐ Mandarin Flashcards | HSK1โ3, 400 words, spaced repetition โ now with Anki export | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ก HSK4 Flashcards | 150 intermediate words, same spaced repetition, Anki export | Try it |
| โ๏ธ Chinese Writing Toolkit | Sentence banks & model essays for 11 types of Chinese writing | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ณ๏ธ Major Vote | 757 Chinese university majors โ community vote on what's worth studying in 4 years | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ Gaokao English Exam | Real 2026 college entrance exam sat by 12.6M students | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐๏ธ Civil Service Challenge | Official-style ่กๆต aptitude quiz | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ฅ Investment Punch Card | Buffett's 20-decision rule as a lifetime investment tracker | Try it ยท Repo |
| ๐ง AQ Kids | Parent quiz โ assess your child's resilience, get a personalized PDF letter | Try it |
| ๐งฉ 3-Question IQ Challenge | 3 questions. Most people fail question 1. | Try it |
| ๐ง Extended IQ & Cognitive Bias Challenge | 20 questions covering CRT, Monty Hall, Linda problem, Wason task โ average score 11/20 | Try it |
All tools โ ordinarymantrying.com/tools/ ยท Chinese learning hub โ daligao.github.io/learn-chinese-free/
Can AI predict the World Cup? I ran 6 AI models (3 Chinese, 3 American) against 14 World Cup matches โ and bought real lottery tickets based on their predictions.
Results: Part 1 ยท Part 2 in progress
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- ๐จ๐ณ Based in China, writing in English for a global audience
- ๐ค Running AI experiments and writing about what actually happens
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- โ๏ธ Everything documented honestly โ including the $0 months
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