I think of crypto as freedom promoting technology.

I guess you could see crypto as a hedge.

And that's kind of what Satoshi meant when he was talking about the banking system failing, right?

And he wanted to create this technological option.

I think of him as trying to create in software a way to represent those same values

that was in some sense immune to whatever the states

happened to be doing at the time.

I think the New York Times Exposé that came out a couple months ago basically said 23%

of all 17-year-old boys have been given an ADHD diagnosis.

You can say, okay, we're medicating boyhood, but why is it incentivized that doctors give

them this diagnosis?

If you want to find, like, the ground truth and you do the legwork and you kind of like

follow the right people and you kind of go through and look for it, the answer is probably

on X in a way that is unlike other places.

We're kicking off a new series where we run the internet's biggest stories.

Today, Catherine Boyle and I sit down with Eddie Lazarin from the A16Z crypto team

to explore what connects consumer, crypto, and American dynamism.

From games fueling defense tech to decentralization echoing federalism.

We also dive into AI as the second new opinion, ADHD in schools, the future of tutoring, parenting in the modern village, and how Zumer culture and X are reshaping the internet. Let's get into it.

We're excited to do our first episode of Catherine and I's new podcast series with A16Z,

where we run through the stories of the internet.

Eddie, thank you for being our first guest.

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