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 September 2026: still healthy but sleeping worse, financially cushioned by money already in hand rather than income, and steady on everything else.
Health stayed above baseline but came off August’s high, mostly because sleep got shorter and less regular. The wealth index fell 5%, and most of that is one-time travel paid in full this month. Social reach was flat: August’s apparent record did not hold up, and LinkedIn’s own data shows no jump (see the note below). Productivity was unchanged, and reading nearly doubled.
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 October 2026 release, reporting September 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 October reports September’s numbers, the same way most economic data works. When this page says “as of the October release,” the life being measured is September’s.
| Indicator | Reading | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| PHI Personal Health | 110.1 | Down from August’s 117.8 but still well above baseline. Activity and fitness stayed strong, with steps 60% above the 2023-25 norm and the step score at its 160 ceiling. Sleep was the drag: shorter and far less regular, and travel to Kosovo at month’s end made both worse. |
| PWI Personal Wealth | 143.8 | Down 5.0%. Most of the step down is one-time travel, paid in full this month; the rest is the same steady drift as August. Fixed costs remain structurally low. |
| SCI Social Capital | 101.23 | Effectively flat. The drop from August’s 104.17 corrects August’s LinkedIn input: LinkedIn’s own data shows no jump, and the suspected cause is a wave of spam accounts that was later scrubbed from the record. The other ten platforms barely moved. |
| PPI Personal Productivity | 93.75 | Unchanged from August, on full coverage with all 30 days tracked. Tracked hours fell from 159 to 141. |
| KBER Knowledge Base Expansion | 18,614 notes | Organic growth of 164 notes, below the roughly 250-a-month baseline. |
| LMV Longform Media Velocity | 15 points | Five films and four books, nearly double August. |
Charts, history and prior months: mike.quarterly.systems.
How to read the notes, not just the numbers
Three of the six readings above need their note to be read correctly. PWI’s drop is mostly a one-time travel cost, not a change in how money comes in or goes out. SCI’s drop corrects August’s LinkedIn input, not lost reach. KBER’s level still reflects July’s one-time file migration, not a person learning faster.
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. September is the case for that: health and wealth both down, productivity flat, reading nearly doubled.
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