Mission

Overview 

We hear the word freedom from politicians, artists, authors, and icons across American culture.    Further, political philosophers across millennia have described freedom and its meaning across generations imparting its value to individuals and society. Meanwhile, beyond politics and philosophy, American capitalism is ubiquitous yet opaque with businesses associating their products and services with “freedom” to elicit approval and attachment and capitalism’s tenets being infused across society.

The Currency of Freedom is about your freedom and what you do with it. Your sovereignty to make decisions about yourself and the best way to shape your future in the next minute, month, and beyond will be the measure of your life. Yet it isn’t one single hack or one answer. We use a framework around “currency” to think differently about your time.  Every decision is about the energy, time, and learning you “earn” vs what you “spend”  to gain something or consume. 

In an economic sense, we aggregate currency which buys the freedom to purchase activities, services, and goods that maximize your sovereignty.  For instance, you want to go out to dinner, take a cruise, stop working to pursue your passion as a painter.  This means you can buy the leisure activities or practice your hobby.  Yet currency is wealth beyond cash.  It can be measured in things like willpower, time, energy, and talent that you deploy to exercise your freedom.  A person may be cash constrained but possess enormous “currency” like energy or willpower.  That willpower can result in greater fitness, learning a new language, improving your skills as a writer, or just growing as a self-aware friend and lover to your partner.  None of that requires cash. Yet we’re conditioned to think of currency as dollars. Once you view your life through this framework, your life is easier to change as well. 

The Currency of Freedom elevates your freedom by growing your currency to exercise more agency in our personal, public, and societal lives more deeply.  By understanding currency for the individual and together, we better answer questions like:

• How do we exercise freedom as individuals and as a society?

• How do we allocate scarce currency over the course of our lives? 

Through writing, interviews, book reviews, cultural exploration, technology like AI and blockchain  cryptocurrencies, we will find answers in the Currency of Freedom.