Reset Theory

Rebuild from first principles.

A practical field guide for addiction recovery, rebuilding your life, and changing the systems that keep you stuck: habits, avoidance, work, money, health, technology, and the stories you keep running.

Start Reading What is Reset Theory?

Most advice treats symptoms.

Reset Theory starts with the operating system.

The habits you repeat, the incentives you obey, the tools you use, the debts you carry, the environments you tolerate, and the stories you mistake for identity.

When life stops working, do not only optimize the broken system. Reset the assumptions underneath it.

Tools

Some problems need more than reflection. They need measurement.

Use the Reset Theory tools to make hidden patterns more visible, starting with the BAC Estimator.

Start by system

Choose the failure mode.

Recovery

For addiction, alcohol, sobriety, dependence, relapse, harm reduction, and staying alive long enough to rebuild.

Follow the sequence →

Stabilization

For the first phase of getting your life back under control: stop making it worse, take inventory, and rebuild the basics.

Start here →

Avoidance

For procrastination, clean-start fantasies, shame loops, delay, and the ways fear disguises itself as planning.

Read the loop →

Operating System

For the core Reset Theory idea: habits, incentives, tools, environments, and stories are the system you keep running.

Read the manifesto →

Tools

For calculators, checklists, inventories, and utilities that make the reset more practical when reflection is not enough.

Open the tools →

Start here

The Reset Theory Manifesto

A short explanation of the core idea: when life stops working, do not just try harder inside the same broken loop. Change the loop.

Read: The System Is Not Behaving as Expected →

Latest writing

Essays, guides, and field notes.

No gurus. No hacks. Just systems worth rebuilding.