Totally off-topic but it needs to be said:

Using an em dash (—) WAY preceded ChatGPT. Shoutout to all my neurospicey fellows who rely on it to keep a brain-going-7000-miles-an-hour coherent enough by using as many — and ( ) as you like!

TL;DR

• Seven months offline (as in: internet death) due to a health crash gave me brutal clarity: success means nothing without sustainability.
  

• Even in Web3, we’re still replicating extractive systems—only now we’re burning out in public. Despite Bitcoin hitting an all-time high on Pizza Day 🥳, the space feels hollow. We’ve lost the soul in the chase for milestones. For “adoption” that we never actually built for.
  

• I almost didn’t come back to the internet, cos why?! It’s all AI now, and I much prefer talking to my own AI self than that of others. But Quantumnomics isn’t about adding more noise—it’s about broadcasting signal.

Bitcoin’s never been better.
So why’s everything still broken?

Today is Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Fifteen years since two pizzas cost 10,000 BTC.
Today, that BTC is worth a staggering $1.115 BILLION 🤯

And yes—Bitcoin just hit an all-time high:
$111,886.41, to be exact.

But something feels… off.
No champagne. No chaos. No joy.
Just a strange, sober silence.

Why does it feel like no one’s cheering—even as the numbers scream victory?

Seven months ago—ironically, the last time BTC hit an ATH—I disappeared from the internet. (That’s a whole other kind of dead 🤷‍♀️)

Not for a break. Not for a reset.
My body crashed.
Fully. Unexpectedly. Repeatedly.

The kind of collapse where basic survival becomes the only KPI that matters.
Making it through a day without some life-threatening body drama? Aspirational.
Everything else—deadlines, updates, launches, goals—became optional. Irrelevant.

I didn’t want to listen.
So my body got louder.
Until I had no choice.

So it forced me to rethink everything:

• What matters.

• What success even is.

• And whether I wanted to return to a world so saturated with noise.

Here’s what I learnt in the silence

1. 🚨 Success isn’t success if it costs your health.
   
   When your body is at the stage where waking up the next day feels like bingo-esque luck-of-the-draw—none of the milestones matter.
   

   We talk about sustainability in tech. But most founders I know are sprinting on fumes—physically, emotionally, existentially. And we call it commitment.
   
   The founder dream collapses fast when your health does. Metrics shift. Wins become things like energy levels, mental clarity, a single good night of sleep. How many of us are building sustainable companies on unsustainable lives?

2. 🔁 Even in Web3, we’re still caught in extraction logic.
   
   The tech changed. The behaviour didn’t. We traded bosses for the Bitcoin market, and burnout with “building.”

   Different tools. Same dysfunction.
   Decentralisation was supposed to free us.
   Instead, it gave us new ways to perform, prove, and pretend we’re okay.
   
   When you're not in the feed, not in the forums, not performing... you see it clearly: decentralisation won't save us from ourselves. Because we never actually replaced the systems that matter.

3. 🤫 Silence is the most honest mirror.
   
   It forces a kind of truth no dashboard ever will.
   
   When it’s not about traction or updates shared publicly, not about the dopamine drip of public wins—what’s left? That’s your audit. What ideas still hold? What relationships last? What vision still calls to you?
   
   When you step away, you realise how much of your identity was built on being seen. Who are you when you're not visible? Not relevant? Not retweeted?
   
   That’s where you find your actual edge.
   And your actual alignment.

   
   Shoutout to the AdLunam team, because we’ve had So. Many. Wins. 💖

My TEDx talk is out!

Bitcoin Pizza Day:
A celebration without a pulse

We’re here. All-time high. The world’s attention should be roaring.

Instead, it’s whispering.

This moment should be a victory lap. But most people I know are too tired, disillusioned, or busy surviving the next meta shift to celebrate.

Maybe it’s because we’ve spent so long chasing the next milestone, we forgot how to honour what it cost to get here. How many of us gave everything—time, health, security—for the dream of something better?

And how’s that working out for us?

So why come back now?

Seven months offline gave me clarity I couldn’t find while plugged in:

• We're running faster than ever—but fewer of us remember where we were going.

• We're hitting all-time highs—but feeling emotionally bankrupt.

• We're louder than ever—but rarely saying anything that actually lands.

I’ve spent a long time asking myself:
Do I even want to rejoin the conversation?
And if so—what am I here to say?

The answer is obviously no. It’s a whole lot of BS, and I think most of us can’t stomach it anymore. But I do want to broadcast signal.

Here’s my answer:

I’m not here to add more noise.
I’m here to broadcast signal.

Quantumnomics is that signal. I’ll be sharing the lenses, filters, and frameworks I use for deeper thinking, for meta-level reflection, and for building systems—and selves (total work in progress)—that can actually sustain. At the level beneath the tools we use or the tokens we trade.

Hot off the presses!

• AdLunam voted Best Web3 Investment and Engagement Platform by World Future Awards

• AdLunam named a Top 5 Crypto Company by F6S

• Our retail whitepaper is out (the hardest WP I’ve ever written!)

• Over 9,000 entries—90% of them AI—judged by product leaders from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and more ➡️ AdLunam Social crowned an AI & Data Product That Counts (ahead of its upcoming Soft Launch, coming to a screen near you very soon!)
  

  

  See below for takeaways from the judges on what it takes to build products in an Age of AI 👇

AI is the new baseline.
Strategy is the new superpower.

This year's AI & Data Product Guide by Products That Count, Mighty Capital, and CapGemini, reveals three sharp truths for product builders navigating the next wave of innovation. If you're still chasing AI as a shiny feature, you're already behind.

1. AI is table stakes, but strategy is what wins.
   With AI no longer a differentiator, what matters is how AI is strategically embedded, from data quality to addressing user trust.
   

2. Great moats are built on data and customer intuition.
   In the era of open APIs and fast followers, only unique contextual data, combined with understanding users better than anyone else, creates a truly defensible moat.
   

3. Ecosystems and interoperability are the new competitive advantage.
   From AI agents that speak to each other to products addressing micro-niches, the future belongs to products that plug into broader systems and are interoperable.
   
   Curious what the future looks like when built by product-first teams?
   Download the 2025 AI & Data Product Guide and see what’s next.

If you’re thinking at a shared level, I want to hear from you.

Because if we’re going to build a different future…
We have to show up differently.

If you’re building, thinking, or feeling your way through this era from that same meta lens, I’d love to connect. I have HUGE Inbox Debt, but prioritising conversations that flow in this direction.

Just hit reply :)