Privacy, Pseudonymity, and a Freedom-Based Life

2025-09-08

“Privacy is sovereignty. It’s about choosing what’s mine to share.” — Digitalgal In a hyper-public internet, visibility has become currency. We’re taught that more platforms, more posts, and more personal detail equate to more opportunity. “Building in public” became the expectation and mantra for creators and founders, particularly in Web3. Visibility was everything. Share more, show more, and success would follow. But what happens when the persona you project starts costing you your privacy, your safety, your qu...

“Privacy is sovereignty. It’s about choosing what’s mine to share.” — Digitalgal

In a hyper-public internet, visibility has become currency. We’re taught that more platforms, more posts, and more personal detail equate to more opportunity.

“Building in public” became the expectation and mantra for creators and founders, particularly in Web3. Visibility was everything. Share more, show more, and success would follow.

But what happens when the persona you project starts costing you your privacy, your safety, your quality of output, and your time?

In this episode of Object Subject Form, Simon sits down with Digitalgal (@dgtlgal), co-founder of Inner Core Ventures, a Puerto Rico–based venture studio building acquisition-ready digital startups.

Digitalgal is an entrepreneur who retired at 31 and chose freedom as her design constraint. An early Web3 adopter since 2016, she has built companies, incubated products, championed remote-first teams, and eventually chose pseudonymity as a way to align her work with her values of privacy and sovereignty.

She has been committed throughout her career to maximizing the productive potential of remote working, global teams, and freedom-based digital business models.

Together, they talk about early retirement as positive liberty, why “chasing fear” can restore purpose, and how mindset—not mechanics—creates lasting results. They also explore Web3: self-custody, DAOs, token-gated communities, and why strategic anonymity is as much a creative tool as it is a shield.

If you’ve ever asked yourself: