the algorithm that’s actually curating you

So the thing about reality, it’s this ever-changing screen, constantly refreshing with whatever is currently on your mental slide projector. You’ve got your awareness acting as this display, but what exactly is being shown? Most people think it’s just reality, but it's really whatever you've decided to project onto it. Now, you might say, "I haven’t decided anything," but that’s kind of the problem, isn't it?

Most of us are running on this default OS, not even knowing that the parameters can be, and should be, changed. It's kind of like inheriting an algorithm you didn't write, but it's curating you into someone you don't even want to be.

I think what most people miss is that we've got these psychic plugins, beliefs and attachments, that stick to our mental OS and influence every click and scroll we make. But the neat thing is, just like you can uninstall an app, you can really uninstall these psychic plugins. And the interesting thing about that is, the more plugins you remove, the more quickly you can navigate through your reality. It's like clearing up RAM space, giving your operating system a smoother feel.

When I was braving the unknown at 17, I decided not to follow the typical college path. I was homeless multiple times but started businesses when I could, and each failed project was like running a self-audit. And man, those self-audits are game-changers.

When I say self-audit, I mean seriously examining the whole terrain of your life to find what’s broken. Debugging your beliefs is the first real update you should do. What thoughts are running in the background, using up all your mental CPU? What old plugins are you still carrying around because someone told you they were essential software?

And once you start identifying these, that's when you begin to play the game instead of being played by it. It gets even more interesting when you realize life throws these psychic notifications at you, little updates nudging about what’s coming. But here's where it gets really weird, most people don't even see them. Or maybe they choose not to.

Imagine reality as a game with its own set of hidden levels and obscure test conditions. It’s like those old-school games where the Easter eggs are so well-hidden that only the truly dedicated players ever find them. Now, that's reality for you. We pass by these psychic tests every day without even realizing what they are.

A chance meeting, a book falling off a shelf, an unusual feeling in your gut, these are the notifications trying to tell you there's an upgrade waiting.

I remember hitting a psychic wall when I questioned whether anything out there was real. It's a disconcerting thought initially, but super liberating eventually. The outer world’s just a complex layer of filtering meant to catch your interest, and most of the time, it’s not even genuine. The stuff happening out there might be real, but it’s curated, stripped down, and dramatized until it no longer resembles its original form.

The algorithm does that to us, too, without us even seeing it. Everything’s got these overlays, and it’s only when you start peeling them off do you see the raw, naked code.

If you're at all like me, you might find it easier to think about reality in terms of technology and design. Conceptualizing your life as an open-source project highlights how much agency you actually possess. You can fork your own reality, you know? Add features, remove unnecessary functions, streamline the core code.

When I started seeing reality as technology, it all changed. You realize every experience, every person, is just another app you can choose to install or uninstall.

Most of us are running this outdated firmware, though. You know, beliefs installed by parents, society, institutions, it’s like mental bloatware. Upgrading your firmware is about filtering out these pre-installed beliefs and reprogramming your mind with updated, more efficient code that aligns with who you really are. An upgrade might look just as simple as questioning an assumption you've held your whole life.

That's what I did. And I don't mean questioning it in a "tweet about it" kind of way. I mean, sitting down, going deep, circling back to every nook of that belief, testing its validity until it either stands up or topples over.

And but here’s the thing: it’s easy to get stuck at the questioning phase. Or worse, dive into self-development only to come out the other side realizing you’re still subscribing to someone else’s algorithm. That’s where the whole anti-matrix living part comes in. It’s about opting out of the default configuration society gives you.

Not just by boycotting it externally, but by excavating it from the inside.

When you start recognizing your reality as a game with hidden variables and potential for level progression, you start looking at challenges differently. These aren’t just obstacles; they’re tests of your evolving character. But we’re not told this. The world doesn’t tell you about the game of reality, probably because it benefits from keeping you in the dark.

So what do you do? You learn to spot the cheat codes. You figure out the shortcuts.

And the interesting bit here is once you start passing those psychic tests, like really paying attention to those inner notifications, you get to level up in unexpected ways. Suddenly, things that seemed hard or impossible become doable. You unlock abilities you didn’t know you had.

So, you know, it's not about doing more, but rather not doing a lot of the unnecessary stuff. Filtering your focus, maintaining sincere curiosity, and making decisions in alignment with your internal compass is where real power lies. All those choices act like configuration settings in your life, tuning the input layer to respond intelligently to whatever comes next.

I think the part about designing reality nobody talks about is how straightforward it actually is. We make it all complicated, but that's mostly society’s own code bloat talking. Simplifying is the real secret. When you strip everything back, it’s just choice after choice, parameter tweak after parameter tweak.

And that’s kind of it. But then again, it isn’t, because there’s always a new layer to peel back, a new update to install. There’s always more. I don’t know, man.

It’s wild when you think about it.