My Life's Operating System

What happens when you begin to question the things you were most certain about?

At the end of 2015, Zach de la Cruz tried to end his life. He survived. In the years that followed, he kept returning to a question: how had he been so certain about something that turned out to be false?

My Life’s Operating System follows the examination that grew from that question. Drawing on his experience in construction and quality management, Zach brings a familiar habit—tracing problems back to their causes—to the less orderly territory of his own life.

Through mistakes, mentors, marriage, and work, he examines the assumptions that shaped his decisions, the beliefs he struggled to reconsider, and the distance between what he intended and what other people experienced.

He calls it Version 1.0 on purpose. These are conclusions reached so far, with room for correction as experience reveals what he has missed.

Part memoir and part personal philosophy, this book offers a candid account of learning to look more closely: at what we believe, how we respond, and what we might need to change.

For readers drawn to self-examination, personal growth, and the work of rebuilding a life, it is an invitation to consider the operating system behind their own choices—and what might be ready for revision.