Whenever the Sovereign Individual comes up in conversation, or when I’m on a podcast, I always quip that the entire book can be summed up in one word: incentives.

But at the same time, the world we live in now contains numerous, publicly available levers that individuals can use to both express their autonomy as well as amplify it. As I mentioned on a recent podcast, now “everybody has the bomb”. The “bomb” being: literacy, effectively free access to all the information and knowledge ever accumulated by humanity, peer-to-peer communications at the speed of light, encryption, decentralized non-state money (Bitcoin), and now, AI.