"Garbage in, garbage out."

– William Mellin, Army Engineer

We all understand when it's a machine. Feed a computer bad data, you get bad output. Put low-grade fuel in the tank, the engine runs rough. Simple. But the same law applies to you.

Most of what's being offered to you is pure garbage.

The food. The news. The algorithm. All built to exploit your urges, bleed your time, and auction your attention off by the hour.

It comes in a lot of flavors. Outrage. Distraction. Filth... Doesn't matter which one you're swallowing. Whatever goes in eventually comes back out of you. In your words. In your mood. In the man who shows up to the day.

And those who follow you are downstream of all of it.

Guard the gate, ruthlessly. The man who guards his inputs is a man who can rely on his output.