The Ontological Fraud of Silicon Valley’s Monk Mode

The Ontological Fraud of Silicon Valley’s Monk Mode

Across social media and the wellness economy, “Monk Mode” mutates a metaphor into a product line. Monk Mode hashtags command over 76 million views on TikTok, fueled by productivity influencers like Iman Gadzhi, who markets the concept as a high-performance “protocol” for financial dominance. Apps like Freedom (claiming to gain 2.5 hours of productivity daily), Cold Turkey (which “blocks” your computer) and Opal (purporting to reclaim an average …