Alejandro Carbajo

REC · OUT OF AUTOPILOT

YOU ARE NOW WATCHING: YOU

You’re on
autopilot
right now. caught you.

REC 00:00:00 · YOUR TIME ON THIS PAGE

Most of your day happens without you. I help you catch the pattern mid-act, figure out what it’s actually doing for you, and point it somewhere you chose. Then you delete my app. Yes, that’s the business model. My accountant has questions.

Catch yourself in 4K ↓

Founder and product builder. Not a clinician. Personally filmed opening the fridge twice to see if the answer had changed.

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BREAKING: LOCAL HUMAN BLINKED, LOST 40 MINUTES YOUR THUMB HAS OPINIONS OF ITS OWN AUTOPLAY IS DRIVING. NOBODY VOTED. MAN BUILDS APPS DESIGNED TO BE DELETED, ACCOUNTANT CONCERNED AWARENESS UP 300% SINCE YOU STARTED READING THIS TICKER BREAKING: LOCAL HUMAN BLINKED, LOST 40 MINUTES YOUR THUMB HAS OPINIONS OF ITS OWN AUTOPLAY IS DRIVING. NOBODY VOTED. MAN BUILDS APPS DESIGNED TO BE DELETED, ACCOUNTANT CONCERNED AWARENESS UP 300% SINCE YOU STARTED READING THIS TICKER

00:01 · THE MOMENT

ANY GIVEN EVENING, FRAME BY FRAME

You blinked and
it was 1AM.

Nothing is wrong with you. Your autopilot is just extremely good at its job. Let’s go to the tape.

  1. FRAME 1 · 23:12:04

    Task ends. A tiny gap opens.

  2. FRAME 2 · 23:12:07

    Hand moves. Nobody sent it.

  3. FRAME 3 · 23:52:19

    You surface. Forty minutes are missing.

  4. THE MISSING FRAME · 23:12:06

    Ten seconds between the impulse and the action—wide enough to fit one question: “what am I actually after?”

    Everything I build lives in this frame.

The whole game is making that frame longer.

00:02 · CAUGHT IN 4K

SELF-SURVEILLANCE, THE FUN KIND

Catch yourself
in 4K.

Half the fix is seeing your own footage. Describe your last autopilot moment—specific enough to laugh at—and download the receipt. No shame, just tape.

00:03 · THE PLOT TWIST

NOW SHOWING: YOUR INNER MONOLOGUE

You cry at movies.
You still know you’re not the character.

Your thoughts run the same movie all day—cravings, dread, the 2AM plot spirals—and that one you believe without checking the credits. Same screen. Same seat. You’re allowed to feel the whole scene without following the script.

You’re the audience. Act like it.

00:04 · HOW I SEE IT

NO INCENSE REQUIRED

Awareness is a skill, not a vibe.

  1. The habit is doing a job.

    Midnight scrolling is a terrible employee with perfect attendance. It keeps showing up because something hired it—relief, escape, a reward. Find the job before you fire the habit.

  2. White-knuckling is not a strategy.

    You don’t have to win every round. You have to notice early enough to get a vote. Sometimes that’s a pause. Sometimes it’s friction, another person, or professional help.

  3. A good app gets deleted.

    If you need it forever, it didn’t strengthen you—it just renamed the dependency. Around here, the uninstall is the five-star review.

00:05 · THE TOOLKIT

SMALL TOOLS FOR THE MISSING FRAME

I build apps you’re
supposed to delete.

Not a super-app. Not an AI life coach in a beige sweater. Each one works a specific moment where intention and behavior stop speaking—and each one has a built-in exit.

Delete “Digital Detox”?

You haven’t needed it in 34 days.

The only success screen I actually care about.

00:06 · BEHIND THE CAMERA

THE GUY BEHIND THE CAMERA

Alejandro Carbajo

Base
Madrid
Occupation
Builds apps, then celebrates when you delete them.
Method
Awareness over blocking. Patches are for software; people get explanations.
Is not
A clinician, therapist, neuroscientist, or guru.

I study the gap between what we mean to do and what we actually do, turn the useful bits into focused experiments, and say clearly when an app is not enough. This work can support reflection and change; it does not replace qualified medical or mental-health care.

00:07 · THE REWATCH