In Episode 11, Christopher Smith sits down with creator and strategist Sujal Lethwani to unpack how he built a 200,000-follower personal brand and a network reaching over 4 million people — all beginning as a 15-year-old posting motivational content from his bedroom.

Sujal shares the mindset, systems, failures, bans, rebuilds, and algorithmic insights that shaped his rise on Instagram, as well as the deeper story of going from a self-described "loser" in school to a leader with global reach.

This episode explores his journey through content creation, Network School, mentorship, decentralization, and the psychology behind building a long-term personal brand in the age of platform risk.

A fast-paced and inspiring conversation for creators, builders, and anyone trying to understand how attention actually works online.

Follow Sujal:
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sujal.jethwani

Follow Quantus:
X (Twitter) – https://x.com/QuantusNetwork

Quantus Network Community – https://t.me/quantusnetwork
Tech Support – https://t.me/quantustechsupport
Announcements – https://t.me/quantusannouncements

⏱ Chapters

(00:00) Opening Story & Sujal's Early Motivation
(00:04) Meeting Sujal & His First Instagram Experiments
(00:09) Balaji, Network School & Moving to Dubai
(00:14) From 15-Year-Old "Loser" to Building a Community
(00:18) Global Markets: US/UK Demand, Bans & Platform Limits
(00:23) Hacks, Recoveries & Reinventing Your Brand
(00:28) Platform Dynamics: YouTube, Instagram & Permissions
(00:32) Decentralization, Nostr & Who Owns Your Followers
(00:37) Governance, Network Effects & Metcalfe's Law
(00:41) The Three-Part Framework: Foundation, Exploration, Transformation
(00:46) Culture, Diwali, Personal Philosophy & What Comes Next

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (Oct 2025)

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In this episode of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith sits down with Jake Explains — a creator whose path is anything but ordinary. Jake went from becoming the #3 RuneScape player in the world, mastering systems and optimization at an early age, to building a career in optical engineering, teaching astronomy, and finally becoming one of the fastest-growing creators in global education and geopolitics.

Jake describes how years of obsessive gameplay developed the ability to model systems, analyze incentives, and think strategically — the same mental tools he now uses to engineer viral content. He discusses the transition from aerospace and optical engineering into media, and how mastering hooks, pacing, curiosity loops, and storytelling structure turned his short-form videos into a global learning channel.

The conversation expands into quantum computing platforms — from photonic systems to NMR and topological qubits — along with the fundamentals of laser technology and the intersections between physics, engineering, and future cryptography. Jake also explores the psychology of human attention, why 99% of people interact with your brand for under a second, why he moved from space content to geopolitics, and what he's learned from building intentional communities around the world.

They dive deep into the American diet crisis, Jake's move to Asia, how environment rewires health, and why real-life community is critical for mental wellbeing in an age of digital overstimulation. The episode ties together systems thinking, global trends, technical depth, and the art of storytelling — through the lens of someone who has mastered multiple domains.

Follow Jake

YouTube: @JakeExplains
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jake_explains?igsh=bmQwNXNqcmN5a3du

Follow Quantus

X (Twitter): https://x.com/QuantusNetwork

Telegram:
Quantus Network Community — https://t.me/quantusnetwork
Tech Support — https://t.me/quantustechsupport
Announcements — https://t.me/quantusannouncements

Chapters

00:00 — RuneScape mastery & learning to think in systems
02:00 — From engineering to content creation
04:00 — How virality works & why attention is everything
06:00 — The shift from space content to geopolitics
08:00 — What five-hour production workflows taught him
12:00 — Lasers, optical engineering & the physics behind his career
16:00 — Quantum computing platforms explained
20:00 — The American diet crisis & moving to Asia
24:00 — Community living, mental health & the digital age
28:00 — The future of encryption & quantum-era security

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (Oct 2025)

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In this episode of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith and Joe Mattia sit down with Sara in WonderTech for a deeply curious conversation about AI, psychedelics, childhood development, self-awareness, cybernetics, and the ways the human mind learns, adapts, and transforms.

Sara brings insight from her background in machine learning, consciousness exploration, meditation, psychology, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), blending scientific thinking with personal experience in a way that feels both grounded and adventurous.

The discussion moves through how AI relates to human intelligence, how psychedelics can act as tools for introspection, and how meditation, confusion tolerance, and embodied awareness shape the way we learn. They explore childhood, trauma, identity, and consciousness, as well as cybernetics, feedback loops, and the idea of self-programming. The conversation also touches on what it means to "upgrade" the mind and how awareness influences creativity and intelligence.

This episode is a journey through technology, philosophy, psychology, and the strange edges of human potential.

Follow the Guests

Sara in WonderTech
Instagram – @sarainwondertech

Christopher Smith
https://x.com/YuviLightman

Quantus Network
https://x.com/QuantusNetwork
https://www.quantus.com/
https://t.me/quantusnetwork
https://linktr.ee/quantusnetwork

Chapters

00:00 — Introduction & Background
02:00 — AI → Crypto: Why Chris Made the Switch
04:00 — Early Bitcoin, Mt. Gox & the 2012 Origin Story
06:00 — Money, Fairness & "Fix the Money, Fix the World"
08:00 — Psychedelics, Mind Exploration & Early Influences
10:00 — Consciousness, Cybernetics & the Human Biocomputer
14:00 — Trauma, Parts Work & Internal Family Systems
18:00 — Meditation, Awareness & Body-Based Intelligence
22:00 — Confusion Tolerance & Learning Like a Child
26:00 — AI, Intelligence & the Limits of Generalization
30:00 — Creativity, Self-Reflection & Rewriting Inner Code

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.