🚀 3.2.1. Three Lessons Learned in 2025 ::: Atomic Scaling
Jan 09, 2026
2025 was a year of transition. I moved my family 8,200 km after 21 years in Asia and returned to founder mode after 6 years as an investor. Many things were set in motion that will bear fruit in the years to come. Welcome to 2026, my friend.
3 LESSONS LEARNED:
I. WEALTH DECAYS WHEN HOARDED, COMPOUNDS WHEN SHARED
Day seven in Austin. 5 PM on a mountain. Justin—part of Elon's circle—sketches roads for a village he's building from scratch. Six hours pass unnoticed. Dogs chase butterflies.
That's when it hit me: We're entering an era of AI and abundance. The French aristocrats who hoarded in the 1780s vanished. The Medicis who invested in public works left a legacy that still defines Florence and the Renaissance.
The lesson: In the age of SuperIntelligence, wealth must flow—not accumulate. AI + collective intelligence + redistribution. Earn. Grow. Redistribute. This insight pulled me back into building BOBIC.
Modern Medici beats modern aristocrat. Every time.
II. RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE ONLY RELIABLE PREDICTOR OF HAPPINESS
222 boxes. Three months of logistics. French bureaucracy that would make Kafka weep.
But also:
- 52 dinners cooked together after 20 years of household help
- Chess with Anna, math projects with Miya
- Forest runs, museum afternoons, my mother's spontaneous weekend visits
- Watching my daughters navigate bi-cultural identity in real time
Harvard tracked people for 80 years and found one thing predicts happiness: warm relationships.
The lesson: No amount of optimization compensates for cold connections. The move was chaos. The intimacy was priceless.
III. HEALTH IS INTEGRATION, NOT OPTIMIZATION
Year four sugar-free. Year five alcohol-free. 290+ nights of 8-hour sleep logged.
But 2025 wasn't about metrics. It was about consciousness.
30 days at Balaji's Network State in Singapore. Past-life regression with former Citadel and Goldman executives. Twenty Vipassana sessions. Breathwork. Altered states. Reading Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Alan Watts.
The lesson: The body is hardware. The mind is software. But consciousness is the operating system. Optimize all three or optimize none.
Health isn't hacks. It's body, mind, and spirit aligned.
2 QUOTES:
I.
“Every instant is a present.” — Ian Verchere, Co-Founder at Session Games
II.
“The true wealth is peace of mind.” — Ludovic Bodin
1 QUESTION FOR 2026:
As you step into this year, ask yourself:
What is the single theme I'm compounding across wealth, relationships, and health?
Not three separate goals. One unified force.
Be intentional. Let it become momentum, not friction.
Mine is Flow.
What's yours?
Ludovic Bodin
3x Entrepreneur, 2x Unicorn Investor, 1x IPO
Founder of BOBIC Generational Wealth
Author of Atomic Scaling
PS: Read the full 1,650-word retrospective with all my 2025 numbers on Medium or watch my personal AI-video version.
P.P.S. If you believe the future belongs to tiny teams delivering massive growth with AI—the 10-person unicorn—then you know AI tools are accessible but the right mindset is scarce. Start 2026 thinking like an Atomic Scaler. Get the book →
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— Julie Zhuo, former VP Design at (Facebook) Meta & Author of “The Making of a Manager
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