The author uses the term 'ghost in the machine' to describe old routines that still exist in software. He says it's radical to even acknowledge that there are submartines running your life, because we just presume that those are facts. But when you start to examine these things, you start to understand the reasons behind the choice is that you've made. You will learn a lot if if you did that more often.

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