There’s way more going on in your head than there is in reality.
"Without a doubt the best book on human mechanics, architecture and design anyone will read all year, maybe all decade. No, no, no... all century."You- Once you've finished the book. You already know something is wrong. Not with you specifically. With the whole arrangement. The sense that the game is rigged, that the people at... Continue Reading →
The Accused There is a specific kind of damage that doesn't get named often enough because it looks like a personality trait from the outside. The person who over-explains. Who qualifies everything. Who says I think when they mean I know. Who watches your face while they're talking to you — not because they're socially... Continue Reading →
The Foundation There is a version of you that was built before you had any say in the matter. Not the version you think of as yourself. The version underneath that one. The operating system that was installed before you were old enough to evaluate what was being put in. The one that determines what... Continue Reading →
You Already Have What You Need. You Just Don't Know What's Running. I'm going to say something that might land wrong at first. The system isn't the problem. I know. Stay with me. The system is doing exactly what systems do — expanding into available space, selling what sells, running what runs, optimizing for compliance... Continue Reading →
The bullshit machine is not always loud. Sometimes it shows up as generosity. You think of a friend who the bullshit machine thinks might be mad at you, because you think most people are most of the time, and then get the impulse to do something nice for them. Sounds simple. Sounds good. Except when... Continue Reading →
Most people don't know they've been programmed. Not because they're unaware that childhood shapes you — everyone knows that in the abstract. But because the specific mechanism is rarely named clearly enough to be useful. Here it is clearly. There are two ways a child learns. The first is cause and effect. Touch the hot... Continue Reading →
The Longest Running Operation in Human History Before the phone there was the television. Before the television there was the radio. Before the radio there was the newspaper. Before the newspaper there was the Bible. Not the scripture itself — the physical object. The printed, distributed, institutionally controlled document that arrived in your home carrying... Continue Reading →
How Bad Ideas Become Load Bearing Almost nobody builds a house of lies on purpose. They build on what they were given. They build on what everyone around them was building on. They build because the foundation looked solid and the people who laid it had credentials and the people who questioned it got called... Continue Reading →
The Boy Whose Alpha Was The Wrong Kind Of Strong Meta Bullshit Machine Before you read this, one thing needs to be said clearly. Nobody can convince you of anything you're not ready to see. That's not a limitation — that's how it works. This article is not here to tell you that you're a... Continue Reading →
I'm almost done with my next book, "The Bullshit Machine 2: Navigating the Design of What We Are" and wanted to give a preview of what's coming, so here is the Introduction. Enjoy! Introduction Something Is Running Your Life And It Isn’t You I want to ask you something before we get into any of... Continue Reading →
This framework argues that belief is not the root problem of modern life—belief that doesn’t decay is. Beliefs are meant to be provisional tools: they form, guide action, contact reality, and dissolve into knowing. When that cycle breaks, belief hardens into identity and regulation. It stops serving reality and starts protecting the nervous system. What... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
The Bullshit Machine 