What is Self Engineer?
In the Intelligence Age, Self-help is broken. It has become a symptomatic, reactionary approach to solving problems of the self.
We need an engineering approach to personal change instead.
With so much vying for our attention, stacking a habit or reading a book on how to be more productive does not create true change. The gravity of our current thinking and external inputs pulls us back in. We have to fully reprogram our thinking, from the ground up.
Self Engineer is an effort to support true evolution of the self by applying software engineering principles to personal development.
It’s a noun, an action, and an updated version of the self-help genre for our modern world.
NOTE: I’ve moved from Substack to Beehiiv.
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Why subscribe?
I want to help knowledge workers know themselves better.
We spend so much time using software tools, consuming content, and manipulating data. Ultimately, we are the ones getting manipulated.
By subscribing, you’ll be getting information on how to leverage your own attention and human nature in ways that create real change for yourself, instead of giving it to the software and companies that dominate in our Intelligence Age.
What qualifies me?
Like you, I’m a work in progress. But I believe there is no “best self”, only better selves. Through improved self-understanding, we can continue to release new versions of ourselves.
I’m not an academic, I’m a practitioner and an autodidact.
I’ve spent the past 15+ years working as a software engineer across many different companies and startups.
During that time, I’ve dedicated over a decade to working on improving my thinking through personal coaching and therapy.
Before software I’ve also spent over a decade in creative fields like professional audio and video production.
Here, I’m combining my experience—the successes and failures—in a digestible and applicable way.
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