Liberation of the Modern Mind

Liberation of the Modern Mind

July 4, 2025

Who among us is truly free when their mind is occupied by the will of another?

This is the central question of our time. We stand at the heart of a great paradox: we have built a digital world of breathtaking power, a world that can coordinate trillions of interactions and connect billions of souls. Yet, in our own lives, we have never felt more disconnected from our own intent. We are passengers in a vehicle of immense speed, with no hands on the wheel.

This isn't a flaw in our character; it's a flaw in our tools. The architecture of our digital world, for all its genius, was not built to listen to the living pulse of an individual's purpose. It was built for scale. The result is a global system that can process nearly limitless amounts of data ever year, but cannot help you find the one message from your spouse that truly matters in a moment of crisis.

For me, this paradox became an unavoidable, personal truth. My life's work has been dedicated to putting control back in the hands of the individual, building cryptographic shields and fighting for privacy on the front lines of the tech industry. I was helping architect systems at an almost unimaginable scale. But while I was doing that, my own life was coming apart.

My sister had suffered a devastating accident. Suddenly, the world I was helping build felt like a cruel joke. I could not find the one medical document I needed, buried in a sea of files. I could not recall the crucial promise made in a text, lost in a thousand threads. I could not quiet the noise to hear the one signal that mattered.

My sister passed away during this time. In the grief that followed, a non-negotiable clarity emerged: we had built a world that was brilliant at everything except what was essential. And I wasn't alone. My friend and now co-founder, Dr. David Bader—a titan of computing—felt the same friction. We had both dedicated our careers to making information flow, only to find ourselves drowning in it.

So in November of 2022, a few of us stepped away. We stopped building for the industry and started a quiet revolution for the mind. We worked privately, not out of stealth, but out of respect for the problem.

You don't solve something this fundamental with a press release; you solve it by living it.

For two and a half years, we, along with our team and a close circle of allies, became the first users of a new faculty—an ability we now cannot imagine living without.

This is Adapter.

Adapter is not another app to manage. It is an extension of your own mind. It is the interface between your will and your world, built to finally make our digital lives collaborative instead of combative. It allows the platforms you already use to hear you for the first time.

This is not a promise. It is a demonstration, made manifest through three native capabilities:

Listen

Your life's context, made instantly actionable.

It learns the landscape of your life, allowing you to bring forth the name, the promise, or the detail you need, in the moment you need it.

Reveal

The signal for what's coming.

It sifts through the scattered data of your life—a flight delay, a client's history, a text from two weeks ago—to find the vital signal, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

Engage

Your shield in the attention war.

As your transparent collaborator, it learns your intent and measures the world by a simple, radical metric: its utility to you, not its virality to the crowd nor profitability to the market before it can engage your attention.

We built this because we had to. Its purpose has grown into a movement. For too long, we have accepted a false choice: that to gain the power of technology, we must cede our own agency.

Our business model is our creed: You pay us to serve you.

That is the only way to ensure our interests are perfectly, mathematically aligned with yours. We work for you, not for the highest bidder for your focus.

Your data remains yours, a tool for your liberation, not a cage built from your own life.

Today, on a day that celebrates independence, we are raising a flag for a new kind of freedom. For too long, we have been on our collective heels—reacting, fragmented, and overwhelmed. Today, we begin the work of getting back on our toes.

This is an invitation to join a cause. We are looking for allies—for the builders, the leaders, the parents, the creators who recognize this struggle in their own lives. We are establishing an embassy for the sovereign individual in the digital world; a trusted, stable platform where other developers and partners can come, not to wage war for your data, but to respectfully ask, "How can I help?" and finally get a clear answer.

This is the future we want to live in. We built the key for ourselves, and now we are offering it to you.

Help us shift the momentum. Let's liberate our minds, together.

Interested in learning more? Head on over to www.adapter.com

Interested in joining the cause? https://www.adapter.com/careers

What comes next is up to all of us. Now is the moment to free our minds and reclaim our time.

- Adam Ghetti / Co-founder @ Adapter