The step to disappearing starts with educating yourself on extreme privacy.
Privacy used to mean closing a door.
Today, even when the door is closed, your digital life remains open.
Your searches, accounts, devices, purchases, routines, and online behavior continue creating information about you. That is why disappearing—or simply creating extreme privacy—has to begin before you go anywhere.
It begins with creating a non-digital personal space.
A Place Where You Are Not Producing Data
A non-digital personal space isn’t necessarily a physical location.
It is part of your life that does not need to be searched, posted, tracked, photographed, shared, or converted into data.
That idea runs through my work and my books on disappearing and privacy.
How to Disappear: A Pocket Guide to Thinking, Planning, and Staying Gone focuses on the thinking and planning required before attempting to disappear.
How to Disappear Journal: Seventy Of The Most Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Disappear forces you to ask the difficult questions before making life-changing decisions.
And How to Disappear: AI War Edition – I Am Not Your Data, Digital Starvation and the Art of Becoming Extinct takes the idea into the age of artificial intelligence.
The problem is no longer simply being found.
The problem is constantly being understood.
Extreme Privacy Begins With Less
AI wants signals.
Searches. Locations. Interests. Relationships. Habits. Questions.
We have become accustomed to documenting ourselves without considering who—or what—is listening.
Creating a non-digital personal space is about reversing that relationship.
Not everything needs to become data.
Not every thought requires a search.
Not every destination needs a digital trail.
Not every moment needs an audience.
Disappearing Is a Way of Thinking
I disappear people and create extreme privacy for individuals whose lives require it.
But disappearing is not simply changing your name, deleting social media, or getting on an airplane.
It begins with thinking differently about information.
Before you can disappear from other people, you have to understand how much of yourself you continuously give away.
Creating a non-digital personal space is where that process can begin.
Privacy isn’t always about hiding. Sometimes it is simply refusing to participate.