Welcome to The Murphy Memos!

Have you ever noticed that existing is actually pretty traumatic?

We’re all destined to die and become worm food one day. You. Me. Everyone you know. Everyone you’ve ever heard of. Is it possible to be okay despite knowing this?

Hell if I know. But I do know one thing: if you don’t laugh, you cry.

I choose to laugh. I hope you do too.

Who is Max Murphy?

Max Murphy is an existential imbecile. A disillusioned doofus. A recovering doomer. He’s failed at everything he’s ever done and created this crappy newsletter in a madcap bid to understand life’s biggest conundrum: what the fuck are we doing here?

Before writing this newsletter, Max spent his time desperately trying to grow YouTube channels. He live tweeted the subsequent mental breakdown here:

Why do you write The Murphy Memos?

“Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.” —Spinoza

You’ll like this newsletter if you:

• have a mental illness

• are a doomer but laugh anyway

• live in the liminal space between sanity and madness

What to expect from this cringe compilation of a newsletter?

• Essays: Cursed sentence compilations with dangerously thoughtful ‘contributions’ to ‘the discourse.’

• The Murphy Monologues: an extremely long-winded podcast