Rebooting Belief
A Memoir of Nihilism and Spiritual Recovery
By Mark Neyer
Out July 16, 2026
Preorder NowI followed a broken philosophy to its two logical extremes: a hundred-million-dollar career and a total collapse into drugs and madness. To survive, I had to rebuild my beliefs from scratch — only to find my new "custom source code" was actually ancient wisdom I had previously rejected.
This is a raw account of how the pursuit of excellence and love, without belief in real meaning, devolved into addiction to money, sex, and drugs. This is not just a story about my failure, but of the fertile soil of the wreckage. It's a journey through the emptiness of modern life to a place that felt so vibrant, I was sure I'd discovered something new — until I realized I had seen these ideas once before.
"This book really helped me grow in faith... THANK YOU!" — Len Corpora, Vice President of Business Intelligence, and parishioner at St. Susanna in Mason, Ohio
"It is humbling to read such a truly genuine narrative" — Michael Marchal, Retired English Teacher, St. Xavier High School
"I appreciate your thinking of me, but I have to decline." — Dave Barry, Former Miami Herald Humor Columnist and Pulitzer Prize Winner
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About the Author
Mark Neyer has been a Wall Street engineer, an early Uber employee, and worked at Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook, Google, and Snapchat. He has made a large number of terrible investments, and a small number of brilliant ones — or he is borderline insane and wildly lucky, depending on who you ask.