Get Better at Getting Better

Change the trajectory of your life by training your brain to crave progress instead of distraction.

Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, scattered, or stuck in patterns that don’t serve you?

You’re not imagining it. You are not alone. And it’s not your fault.

The problem is that we live in a world engineered to capture our attention - The Attention Economy.

Where your peace of mind, creativity, and productivity are not profitable

Huge companies with an unprecedented view into your conscious and unconscious mind are using behavioral science, neuroscience, and psychology to keep you scrolling, reacting, and consuming. 

Their most powerful tools? Anxiety. Outrage. Fear. Overwhelm.

And not just when you are on your phone. Every waking hour.

This isn’t a failure of discipline. It’s a mismatch of power.

Right now, the most sophisticated behavior-change tools in the world are largely being used against individual humans.

Moonshot Academy exists to change that.

Together we’ve got this!

Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, scattered, or stuck in patterns that don’t serve you?

You’re not imagining it. You are not alone. And it’s not your fault.

The problem is that we live in a world engineered to capture our attention - The Attention Economy.

Where your peace of mind, creativity, and productivity are not profitable

Huge companies with an unprecedented view into your conscious and unconscious mind are using behavioral science, neuroscience, and psychology to keep you scrolling, reacting, and consuming. 

Their most powerful tools? Anxiety. Outrage. Fear. Overwhelm.

And not just when you are on your phone. Every waking hour.

This isn’t a failure of discipline. It’s a mismatch of power.

Right now, the most sophisticated behavior-change tools in the world are largely being used against individual humans.

Moonshot Academy exists to change that.

Together we’ve got this!

Hi, I’m David Armstrong

Founder of the Moonshot Foundation and Creator of Moonshot Academy

I spent over two decades designing and leading large-scale transformation programs as the former Head of Global Operations for McKinsey & Company’s Transformation Practice, and as a member of Harvard’s AI for Human Flourishing Project.

But nothing tested those skills like life itself.

“We’re being tracked and measured constantly, and receiving engineered feedback all the time.

We’re being hypnotized little by little by technicians we can’t see, for purposes we don’t know.”

— Jaron Lanier, Computing Pioneer & Tech Ethicist

We have and enormous opportunity.

293

Average number of daily notifications received by participants, 2024 study of parents

2.8 Billion

Number of smartphone users with a measurable level of addiction

Mis/Disinformation

Societal Polarization

Mental Health

Global Risks, World Economic Forum 2025 Global Risks Report

“Humanity’s greatest opportunity is to unlock the full potential of our minds. Modern transformation science is the key.”

— David Armstrong, Founder of Moonshot Foundation and former Head of Global Operations for McKinsey & Company’s transformation practice

You are operating the most powerful supercomputer in the known universe, your mind. Every emotion, thought, and decision flows through it. 

Learning to operate your brain even 1% better compounds and ripples out to transform every facet of your life - and our world.

Modern transformation science is the key.

Imagine what we could collectively accomplish if that power was available to everyone for free.

Join us in unlocking that future.

Societal Global Generational Impact

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

— Carl Jung

Introducing Moonshot Academy:

Created by the former Head of Global Operations for McKinsey & Company’s Transformation Practice.

A free, six-week neuroscience-powered journey that helps people:

  • Take back control from digital distraction

  • Rewire their mindset to make positive habits effortless.

  • Reclaim focus, joy, and meaning

  • Build a lifelong growth mindset

  • I wish I'd learned this in my 20s

    "One of my core values is being kind to Future Me. Moonshot Academy has helped me turn that value into action.

    Happy to report that I achieved the goal I set for myself at the beginning of the Academy – inbox zero 5 days a week!

    But what really surprised me was what else happened before the program even finished. Using the same tools, I started a short daily strength routine I’d been putting off for years.

    Moonshot didn’t just help me change one habit, it taught me how to change habits. That skill now shows up everywhere in my life.

    I wish I’d learned this in my 20s."

    Brian H., Author

Hi, I’m David Armstrong

Founder of the Moonshot Foundation and creator of Moonshot Academy.

I spent over two decades designing and leading large-scale transformation programs as the former Head of Global Operations for McKinsey & Company’s Transformation Practice, and as a member of Harvard’s AI for Human Flourishing Project.

But nothing tested those skills like life itself.

Together we can create a future of human flourishing.

The forces shaping the future — AI, social media, information overload — are accelerating faster than our ability to adapt.

If we don’t act now, we risk becoming passengers in a world designed to manipulate rather than empower us.

Join us in helping people take back agency their our inner world and unlock a better future.

Your donation helps us:

Moonshot

noun \ ˈmün-ˌshät \
An extremely ambitious project or mission undertaken to achieve a monumental goal.

In 1962, President Kennedy declared we would walk on the Moon before the decade was out. In 1969 we achieved the unthinkable when Neil Armstrong took, “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Today, bending the trajectory of social media and AI may feel just as out of reach - but change can happen fast when we change how we think.

Our next Moonshot?
Learning to operate our brains as well as we’ve learned to operate our machines.

Space isn’t the final frontier - our minds are.