The MIKE Economy
KmikeyM publishes a fundamentals layer: six indicators tracking Mike Merrill’s life and output, updated monthly, with quarterly reports written against them. They live at mike.quarterly.systems, which carries the charts, the full history back to 2023, and the machine-readable data.
This page carries the current readings so they can be read here, and so questions about them can be answered without leaving the wiki. Every number on this page has already been published on the dashboard. Nothing is first-reported here.
The short answer
As of July 2026: healthy and active, financially cushioned but on one-time money rather than income, and steady on everything else.
That is the honest one-sentence read of the six numbers below. The wealth figure is the one to look at twice: it is high, and it is high because a severance payment from a June layoff landed in the level. Health is genuinely strong. Productivity, reach and reading are all near normal.
If you want the evidence for that sentence, it is the table below, and the charts are at mike.quarterly.systems.
Why a person has economic indicators
A share of KmikeyM has no earnings behind it and no book value to anchor to, so historically the price moved on sentiment (see Share Price History). The indicators exist to give shareholders something else to reason from: a set of measures, published on a schedule, that can be tracked over time and argued with.
They are modeled loosely on a central bank’s data service. Each is an index where 100 is Mike’s own baseline, not a comparison to anyone else. A reading of 111.6 means “better than his normal,” not “good compared to other people.”
Current readings
As of the August 2026 release, reporting July 2026 actuals.
The dates are worth stating plainly, because the two are always one month apart. The indicators publish on a release lag: a release dated August reports July’s numbers, the same way most economic data works. When this page says “as of the August release,” the life being measured is July’s.
| Indicator | Reading | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| PHI Personal Health | 111.6 | A strong month. Activity ran well above baseline, with 25 rides in Portland and steps 48% above normal. Cycling stopped July 26 with the move to Oakland. |
| PWI Personal Wealth | 154.4 | Driven by a one-time severance lump from the June layoff, which now sits in the level rather than recurring. Fixed costs are structurally low, with no housing expense. Rebased to 100 in March 2026, so earlier readings are on a different scale. |
| PPI Personal Productivity | 96.25 | Near baseline, on 81% coverage: six days went untracked, five of them a tracking outage. The figure reflects the 25 measured days. |
| KBER Knowledge Base Expansion | 18,200 notes | A one-time Evernote to Obsidian migration added 12,042 notes against a baseline of roughly 245 a month. The jump is inorganic and does not represent note-taking. |
| SCI Social Capital | 101.19 | Essentially flat, on a raw follower total of 3,078 across the tracked platforms. |
| LMV Longform Media Velocity | 11 points | Eleven films, no books. The zero is confirmed rather than a feed gap: Mike read during July but finished nothing, and the measure scores completions only. |
Charts, history and prior months: mike.quarterly.systems.
How to read the notes, not just the numbers
Two of the six readings above are distorted by one-time events, and in both cases the note carries more information than the number. KBER’s jump is a file migration, not a person learning faster. PWI’s level reflects a severance payment that has already happened and will not repeat.
This is the normal condition rather than an unusual month. A measure of one person’s life picks up moves, job changes, injuries and software migrations, and none of those are trends. The published note is where a distortion gets disclosed, so a reading without its note is only half the observation.
The indicators also do not aggregate into a single score, deliberately. There is no “MIKE number.” Health, wealth, productivity, knowledge, social reach and media consumption move independently, and collapsing them would hide exactly the thing a shareholder is trying to see.
Cadence
- Monthly. All six indicators update early in the month, once every input has landed.
- Quarterly. A written report goes out against the quarter’s data, in the register format the dashboard uses.
- Corrections. A published reading is not revised after the fact. Where a number was later found to be wrong, the record says so alongside it rather than replacing it, so the history stays honest about what was known at the time.
Related
- KmikeyM Economics — where the money actually is, and why the project persists
- Share Price History — what the share price has done, and what moves it
- How the Market Works — bids, asks, the spread, and how to trade