Delete Your Defaults

A show about hacking our social autopilot.

Get off of society’s rails, and come into full contact with life.

Aaron Bieber & Rosa Carson

Aaron Bieber & Rosa Carson

Latest Episode

Curiosity

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025

In this episode we explore curiosity as a way of being, as a practice that softens defensiveness, loosens certainty, and reopens the doors your nervous system has been calling “walls.”

How to appreciate your life

Posted on Thursday, Jul 17, 2025

What does it mean to live fully? We explore the value of boredom, getting to know our neighborhoods, and the mind-bending idea that we are one with all existence.

Be kind but not nice

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 2, 2025

In this episode, we explore what it really means to be kind, the cost of being nice, what it means to be real, and what’s the deal with so much fakeness these days?

Creative process

Posted on Thursday, Jun 19, 2025

All humans are creative and have creative processes. We explore our own creative processes, barriers and facilitators to creativity.

What is your life for?

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 4, 2025

We explore the concept of work life balance, the definition of success, and the foundational question of what is your life for?

Is it the end?

Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2025

We explore endings, beginnings, their cocreative nature, and how we relate to them. Why is it easier to feel the pain of loss than the delight of gain?

Unsustainable

Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Unsustainable is just another way of saying “losing strategy”. We explore layers of unsustainability in modern life and expansive reframes for optimism.

Truth

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 23, 2025

This episode explores the idea of truth, whether objective truth exists, and how to relate to uncertainty. We cover ground from spirituality to politics.

Us vs. them

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025

Can we overcome our social programming to become wise? How do we engage with difference while respecting each others’ humanity?

Trained incompetence

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025

What is the point of your life? How our trained incompetence serves a way of life that’s not serving us.