I Sold Your Time

Confessions of a Former Influencer

By: Henry Bugalho

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

For ten years, Henry Bugalho produced political content on YouTube. Thousands of videos. Hundreds of thousands of followers. Millions of views. Then, in his early forties, his heart stopped.

This book is not about the heart attack. It's about what the heart attack revealed.

I Sold Your Time is the confession of someone who operated the attention economy from the inside: who manufactured outrage for clicks, who fed the algorithm knowing exactly how it worked, who sold skepticism as a product. This is not the story of a social media victim. It's the story of an accomplice.

With the brutal honesty of a man who has nothing left to lose and the philosophical depth of a lifelong reader of the Stoics, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Bugalho examines the screen addiction that nearly killed him — and discovers that recovery is just as suspect as the disease. That digital detox can be yet another performance. That doubting your own sincerity may be the only sincerity left.

This is not a mindfulness manual. There are no habit lists, breathing exercises, or promises of thirty-day transformation. It is a philosophical essay on attention, time, burnout, and the cost of living at full speed — written by someone who profited from the acceleration and is now trying to understand what he lost. With no guarantee that he can.

For anyone who feels time slipping away too fast. For anyone who suspects their phone is stealing something they can't quite name. For anyone who has tried to slow down and failed. And for anyone who rightly distrusts books that promise to fix it.