I think of personal growth as a conspiracy between present me, past me, and future me. Where our motives are aligned, good things happen.

Past me leaves future me notes.

I often find them insightful, especially if I am reviewing them again years later.

The reverse is the more interesting part. Roko's Baslisk loves you and wants you to be happy, and wants you to create him.

This is good! And ask for help from the future :)

sometimes I feel like I've already asked for too much from the future

Allow me to steal this bit of insight

I'm just another incarnation of you anyway, so it's not even stealing.

You're actually the lamination of what you typically consider to be yourself, across all time periods in which you exist: a 4-dimensional spacetime worm.