Privacy is a superpower

In a world where everybody makes their thoughts public, privacy is a superpower. Watch how the trade works: a person turns their whole day into a kind of reality show, and a company pays five hundred dollars to have them talk about a product.

That is cheap. You traded something scarce—your private life, the ordinary hours nobody was watching—for a commodity anyone can buy. And it's fragile: the moment you stop posting, the paychecks stop, because the posting was the whole job.

So before you make anything public, know exactly what you're spending. The quiet you keep is not nothing. It's the rarest thing you own.