What if you had a clone - with only one difference: tireless determination

Before reading the article, my response would have been: "With my stupidity plus tireless determination, the clone would be dead in five minutes"

>>> Your clone decided to give up the bad habits you shared.

This suggests more than one difference.

"You finished that app!" I'd exclaim, and my clone would nod contentedly. "You finished Breaking Bad!" he'd exclaim, and I would nod contentedly. My clone, smug in his accomplishments, would be as jealous of me, smug in my slothfulness - because we both missed out on something.

Well, what would happen is that the clone would commence a depth first walk down the path of the original's imagined task graph and probably overdose on some stimulant while trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis.

I found the story in the article to be a bit naive...