I study the inner operating system of builders — how people stay clear, resilient, and creative while building things that matter.
My work sits between philosophy, psychology, lived experience, and company building. I’m interested in what produces long-term clarity in humans who are trying to create something real.
May 24, 1988, 15:15, in the Pelgulinna maternity hospital. Estonia was still the Soviet Union for another three years.
My father was from Siberia. He drank himself to death.
My mother became a millionaire.
I started companies before I knew what a company was. I learned that I prefer building badly and owning it over doing things well for someone else.
Ruby on Rails. Later Polymarket bot experiments. Learning by doing has been my main education system.
Building slowly. Writing daily. Exploring what a small, independent, bootstrapped technical life looks like.