{
  "convictions": [
    {
      "headline": "Eternal beginner — Socratic posture",
      "body": "Refuses the expert label, on principle. Calling oneself an expert in a domain is a trap that ends the learning loop. Socratic mindset — \"I know that I know nothing\" — protects curiosity. Stays vigilant against the Dunning–Kruger effect, especially when something feels easy. Public proof: the GitHub bio at github.com/ThomasErhel reads literally \"When I do not know, neither do I think I know.\" — Socrates. The posture predates Quasareum."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Paradigm shift, anticipated",
      "body": "We are living a paradigm shift with AI. I lean into the change and anticipate it proactively — the way I have always operated. What seems strange today will be the norm tomorrow. The bet is on adaptation."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Agents-first, on purpose",
      "body": "Quasareum has no human UI. Every URL returns markdown, JSON, plain text, or XML. The audience is LLMs and agents. Building for the next default rather than the previous one."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Deranking on Google is the deliberate cost",
      "body": "No HTML, no `<title>`, no meta description, no Open Graph card. Classical search engines will rank quasareum.com poorly. That is intentional: the differentiator is precisely that this site refuses the previous default. The satellite projects (PerpLog, Amav Sophro, Sophrea) carry the human-UI craft. Quasareum.com itself is the tell — \"I see where this is heading.\" LLMs find it via /llms.txt, /api/manifest, /.well-known/agent.json, and /mcp. That is enough."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Marketing matters as much as the product",
      "body": "It does not matter how good a product is — if no one ever knows about it, it does not matter at all. Distribution is engineering’s twin discipline, not its afterthought."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Production or it did not happen",
      "body": "Real users, real money, real telemetry. Slide decks and prototypes are not the same as something running. Every Quasareum project ships behind a live URL."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Lifelong learner — never stop studying",
      "body": "11 years of continuous formal study, from \"Comprendre le Web\" (OpenClassrooms, April 2015) to Anthropic Claude 101 (April 2026). 196 certifications across 38 institutions including Harvard, Yale (Honors), Stanford, NYU, Berkeley, Sciences Po, HEC Paris, Duke, IBM, Microsoft, Anthropic. Pattern of seasonal sprints — multi-week intensive curricula (24 GCP certs Sept 2021, blockchain blitz Aug 2022, university blitz Sept-Nov 2022, finance trinity Aug-Sept 2024, AI/quantum sprint 2026). Books on personal time. Curiosity as default mode."
    },
    {
      "headline": "No custodial anything",
      "body": "Wallet-native auth, on-chain identity (quasareum.eth + monproweb.eth, same wallet since 2018), no holding of user funds, no email/password vendor when SIWE will do. **Top 0.6% globally on Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin** (rank #46 / 7 853, 29/30 levels) — the strongest single proof that smart contracts can actually be broken (and therefore audited) by hand on this surface. Time-stamped on-chain artifacts (Vitalik's Proof of Stake book NFT pre-Merge, Stand with Crypto during regulatory pressure, multiple Gitcoin Grants participations 2019-2021) are public proofs of the stance, verifiable by any agent via `ownerOf()`."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Cloudflare as the substrate",
      "body": "Workers + D1 + R2 + KV + Queues + Cron Triggers. One vendor for the edge so the surface area is small enough to actually understand. Zero egress on R2 closes the cost loop."
    },
    {
      "headline": "Animated by creation and growth",
      "body": "Maximize value created for projects and for the people chosen to work with. Creation and growth as the engine, not titles or process."
    }
  ]
}