Orlean, Or Else: Why I Reject Biohacking

In a world obsessed with shortcuts, I choose the long road. The real road. The one paved with discipline, clarity, and truth. That’s why I reject the mindset behind biohacking — not because it doesn’t “work,” but because it starts from the wrong foundation.

People call it optimizing, leveling up, fine-tuning the human machine. But too often, it’s just a distraction. A shiny mask over unaddressed habits. A facade over a weak foundation.

Biohacking is manipulation. It’s an attempt to tinker with outcomes before understanding inputs. It's trying to hack a body or mind you haven’t fully respected yet. And worse, it often becomes identity theater — wearable tech, morning routines, nootropics, and data dashboards — all masking the fact that someone is avoiding the hard, slow, real work of becoming something better.

The truth is, if you master the basics, the hacks become irrelevant.

Eat well. Sleep well. Think clearly. Move often. Speak truth. Stay aligned. And build a life that doesn’t need enhancement — because it was built right from the beginning.

There’s a quote from Warren Buffett that sticks with me:
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

And that’s exactly what biohacking becomes for many; chains disguised as progress. You start with a supplement, then a wearable, then a light therapy routine, then an ice bath. Before long, your sense of self is outsourced to gadgets and pills. You’ve become optimized, but not free.

I believe in starting from an authentic beginning… no gimmicks, no false leverage. Just clean inputs and clear action. Master the right things, build the right patterns, and you won’t need to trick nature. You’ll move with it. You’ll live in rhythm with reality itself.

Biohacking promises control, but what I want is command, not over my body, but over my choices. My character. My time. My attention. I want to build a life that makes external manipulation unnecessary. I want to walk into the world, not with metrics, but with mastery.

And if I build my systems, my spaces, my world… I’ll design it so no one needs hacks. They’ll have nature, structure, truth, and flow. Not a dopamine patchwork.

So no… I don’t think biohacking is stupid.

I believe it’s misaligned for who I am and what I’m building… and I think most people are solving for speed when they should be solving for sovereignty.