Natural Intelligence
TOP 10 Most-Read Thought Leaders in Nature
The Cost of Silence
In February 2025, I started writing.
Not as a strategist or a founder but as someone who had lived inside a world most never see or understand what happens there. For the last 15 years I had the honour to witness this world first hand, to oberve and accumulate empirical data through my eyes and senses. Then one day the voice inside was oo loud, too assertive. I was not given all this to hold, I was given it to share. From that moment my silnce would bear a cost I was not willing to pay.
Now today, 10th June 2026, fourteen months later, Illuminem named me one of the top ten most-read thought leaders in Nature globally. Listed alongside Sylvia Earle. Camille Parmesan. Marco Lambertini.
I am not writing this to celebrate a ranking. Of course it is a beautiful feeling, but I am writing it because of what the ranking represents.
In that fourteen months I found my voice.
I built an audience of nearly four thousand on Substack.
I gave a TED Talk. Planet Action at MIT University.
I gave a presentation to the United Nations.
In this rich journey so far, I have met some of the most extraordinary people on earth. I have written about everything from fungal networks to financial regulation, from water to the metaphysical architecture of nature itself.
All of this came into existence when I started writing.
The cost of silence is not nothing.
It is everything you do not build while you are quiet.
The world has never needed the authentic voice more than it does today. AI is accelerating, Data centres are multiplying and in the middle of all of it, Nature, the original infrastructure, is being remembered. Not as sentiment. As necessity.
I have been working on something in the background. A new framework. A new team in America and London. Something that builds the bridge I live on, between biology, time, finance, and the systems that govern them all.
I will share it when it is ready.
For now, this moment is for one thing only.
If you have something true to say, say it. The world is drowning in noise, what it craves is the voice that knows what it is talking about.
Start writing.
To mark this day I am selling 49 copies of the book which architected this day today:
This is fantastic, as someone who has read your writing for years now, and I had the pleasure of seeing you speak in the eye-shaped building at MIT. You, encouraging your readers to write, lands like a seed bomb. Thanks, and I can’t wait to hear about your new project.