Philosophy: No One Is Coming
The most persistent intellectual formulation in the corpus. First articulated in the Christmas Eve 2018 journal entry, refined in December 2018 and July 2019, still present in 2025 thinking.
The original statement (December 2018)
“Nothing is coming. Tomorrow doesn’t exist. The fact is that I’ve educated myself around pursuing something better and becoming that ideal that I always imagine. Always waiting for something better. The problem here is that by doing this I’ve become better and get more pleasure at planing things and imagining the result, than actually doing it. And this whole thing had to break… It needed kind of a mental breakdown, but I got through it. And what I got out of it redefined absolutely everything. No one is coming. Nothing will happen. You are just going to stay you. If you don’t feel like doing something today, you won’t do it tomorrow either. Motivation is no such thing or always really brief. Just fucking do it.”
He was 21. It was Christmas Eve, his first Christmas away from family. He had been in California for two months and had not become the person he planned to become.
What the philosophy rejects
The ideology of deferral is the idea that the right moment, the right state, the right conditions, and the right motivation will arrive and make action possible. He had spent years anticipating a future self who would find it natural to do the things he could not do now. California, his own projection of transformation, had not provided external transformation. So the insight was forced.
It is also a rejection of the planning-as-substitute-for-doing pattern he identified in himself: “I’ve become better at planning things and imagining the result, than actually doing it.”
The corollary (December 2018)
A second December 2018 entry, addressed to “instant self,” introduces the corollary: goals must be quantified, broken into smaller sub-goals, planned month by month, with every daily action pointing at a long-term goal. This is the operational translation of “no one is coming”. If no external force is coming, internal structure must substitute for it.
What it became
By July 2019, back in France after California, he writes: “Once it’ll be embedded in my way of living, my ability to achieve more compelling deeds and meaningful deeds to this world. But then if this ideal is a destination, the path of endeavors is the journey. And I will never stop trying and, to be honest, I’m getting there.”
By March 2020, he is updating the philosophy with neo-hedonism: “Life is a journey, not a destination.” The two slogans address different timescales. One means act now, don’t defer. The other means don’t sacrifice the process for an imagined arrival.
Relationship to the broken reward system
The “no one is coming” insight was real. It did not fix the broken reward system. It named the problem, deferral, but not the neurological mechanism underneath it. He continued to defer, to plan instead of do, and to miss trains while building countdown timers. The philosophy was clear. The execution was not fully under his control. The ADHD and autism diagnosis later clarified part of why.
The January 2026 inversion
In the January 2026 chronicle, he does not use the phrase but approaches its territory from the other side. He is not naively hopeful (“dans deux ans max, je change le monde. Toujours comme ça avec moi.”), but he immediately undercuts that with “Mais je comprends maintenant que ‘tout ou rien’ n’est pas une stratégie. C’est une excuse déguisée en ambition.” He has moved from “no one is coming / just fucking do it” to a more granular acknowledgment that the work happens one brick at a time, not in bursts of realized potential.