The Script Is Broken.
A battle plan for Freedom Fighters in a linear world.
Look around.
You were born into a default setting.
It’s called the Linear World.
In a linear world, the math is simple: 1 Input = 1 Output. You trade your time for money. You trade your effort for results. You work 40 hours? You get paid for 40 hours. If you stop working, the money stops flowing.
This is the “Safe Path” they sold us in school: Get a degree. Get a job. Get a 3% raise. Save 10% in a 401k. Retire at 65.
It sounds responsible. But it is a trap.
Why? Because the script is broken.
We no longer live in a linear world; we live in an exponential one.
The Money is broken: Inflation is eating your linear savings faster than you can stack them.
The Career is broken: Software and AI are replacing linear labor at zero marginal cost.
The Food is broken: The modern environment is aging you faster than “standard” advice can fix.
If you try to live a linear life in an exponential world, you don’t get free. You get fried.
Fried vs. Freed
My name is Jordan Fried. My last name is pronounced “Freed.“
That linguistic coincidence is the entire thesis of this project. We are here to bridge the gap between two realities:
The Default: Being fried. (Living linearly. Exhausted, leveraged, and dependent on the system).
The Target: Being Freed. (Living symmetrically. Sovereign, leveraged, and in control).
This is a Laboratory, Not a Blog.
Fried.com is the public research journal of my Family Office.
I write this from experience, not theory. I didn’t start with a Family Office. I started fried.
I know the texture of burnout. I know what it’s like to be buried in debt, overweight, and directionless on the “safe” path. I only escaped by breaking the linear rules.
Since then, I’ve been fortunate sell a technology company, co-found another multi-billion dollar business, and take multiple companies public - all while starting a family (I have a beautiful wife and three sons at the time of writing this) and starting to take my health seriously.
Most Family Offices are vaults—designed to hide wealth. Mine is different. I view my Family Office as an active Laboratory. It is R&D for a sovereign life.
I am using my own capital, my own career, and my own biology to run experiments. My goal is to find Asymmetry—the rare opportunities where the inputs are capped, but the outputs are infinite.
The Three Fronts
We are fighting this battle on three specific fronts. Each week, I share the intel from the trenches:
1. The Money (Wealth Asymmetry) The fiat experiment is wobbling. Passive investing is for people who trust the system to save them. I don’t. We track Global Liquidity, Bitcoin, and the alternative assets that act as lifeboats while the dollar burns.
2. The Leverage (Business Asymmetry) Time is the only scarce asset. I don’t trade time for money; I trade value for money. We deconstruct the “boring” businesses that print cash and the “frontier” startups that change the world. The goal is simple: Build engines that run without you.
3. The Machine (Biological Asymmetry) Your portfolio means nothing if you are dead at 60. I treat my biology as my primary asset class. From 75 Hard to deep-dive longevity protocols, I am testing what actually works to sharpen focus and extend the runway.
Who Is This For?
This is not for the average. The average are comfortable in the linear world.
This is for the Barbell Audience:
The Builders: The young, hungry operators building escape velocity.
The Stewards: The established leaders protecting what they’ve built.
We share one belief: The consensus is wrong.
The Agreement
I am not a guru. I don’t have a course to sell you. I am an investor and operator sharing my notes.
I promise to respect your inbox. No fluff. No ads for mattresses. Just high-signal intelligence from the laboratory.
The linear path is a trap. It’s time to find the exit.
Cheers to the Freedom Fighters.
— Jordan Fried