We split money from the state with $BTC. Now we need to do the same with thought.

Just recorded with Erik Voorhees on AI privacy and self-sovereignty. The core principles that drove Bitcoin's creation? They matter even more now as AI gets embedded into everything we do.

The conversation kept circling back to one idea: if we don't own our data and our thinking processes, we're just trading one form of control for another. Bitcoin showed us how to opt out of monetary control. The next frontier is opting out of cognitive control.

Worth a listen if you're thinking about where this all goes.