My thinking comes from systems, experience, and perception, creating a fusion that is unique.
It comes from different places — design, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, science fiction, music, and long work in creative fields. Over time, these stopped being separate influences and became one way of seeing.
I existed from forever — in an infinity pool. But for this particular planetary episode, I appeared as a character in 1981, at a point when civilisation progress had gathered enough momentum to make emerging into it interesting. The horse was still there actually, and the asphalt wasn’t. But the world beyond the village was already moving — the internet in the nineties, from Zastava 101 to Tesla, AI in the twenties. The kind of arc that would have seemed far-fetched in a Back to the Future sequel, except it actually happened.
I went to graphic school and studied Information Design at university.
As an information designer, I tend to see the world as made of information, shaped through structure, interpretations, and emotions of a story being collaged and streamed by arty fictional intelligence — an intelligence which has the feature of being mysterious, so people can waste time trying to grasp it.
WHAT I BELIEVE
I experience reality as a shared imagination. Not one version, but many, existing at the same time. There’s the world out there and the world in here — and I’m not sure they’re as different as we treat them. They’re constantly mixing, like salt dissolving in water. You can’t always tell where one ends and the other begins. And maybe that’s the point — maybe they were never really apart to begin with.
The goals we set come from what we believe. And beliefs aren’t facts — they’re just the lens we happen to be looking through. Change the lens, and the same life can look completely different. Some lenses open things up. Others close them down. Since we get to choose what we believe — at least to some degree — that choice quietly shapes everything: what we want, what we try for, and what any of it means to us.
INFLUENCES
These are influences that shaped how I think, not beliefs I follow. Each one added something different — a lens, a method, a way of questioning. Together this fusion form something closer to a school of thought than a reading list.
- My own life story — the fiction I lived, and the realization that identity is partly authored rather than simply discovered.
- Star Trek — especially the holodeck as a model of constructed reality, perception, and lived experience.
- Bruce Lee — adaptability, flow, and resisting rigidity in thought or action.
- Jim Rohn — responsibility, environment, and the compounding effect of simple disciplines.
- Terence McKenna — language, perception, and exploration at the edges of understanding.
- Steve Pavlina — personal development as experimentation rather than doctrine.
- Leo Gura — self-inquiry and questioning the assumptions beneath belief itself.
- Alan Watts — translating Eastern philosophy into paradox, play, and the idea that the self is more fluid than it appears.
- Sadhguru — inner engineering through practice, attention, and disciplined experiential transformation.
- Eckhart Tolle — present-moment awareness, detaching from compulsive thinking, and recognizing consciousness beyond identification with thought and time-based mental narratives
- Rumi — poetic mysticism, emotional awareness, and dissolving the rigid boundaries of self through love, silence, and letting experience pass without clinging
- Shi Heng Yi — self-mastery through Shaolin training, unifying body and mind as a single disciplined practice
- Carl Jung — the unconscious, archetypes, and symbolic structures beneath conscious life.
- Elon Musk — first-principles thinking and reducing problems to fundamentals.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger — repetition, discipline, and turning intention into form.
- Jim Carrey — identity as performance, flexibility, and non-fixity of self.
- Buddhism — impermanence, non-attachment, and observing experience without clinging.
- Christianity — structured meaning, discipline, and relationship to something larger than the individual.
- Islam — discipline, devotion, and alignment with a higher order.
- Goa psychedelic trance — immersive sound, repetition, and altered states of consciousness. Chi-A.D., Astral Projection.
- Lemmy Kilmister, James Hetfield, Maynard James Keenan — intensity, emotional expression, and life-as-soundtrack influence.
- Video games — systems thinking, feedback loops, attention, and interaction-based learning.
- ChatGPT and Claude — tools for reflection, synthesis, and expanding thought.
And most of all…
EXPERIENCE ACROSS WORK, PEOPLE, AND SOCIETY
I have worked for more than 25 years as a creative professional in design studios, marketing agencies, and established newspapers and magazines, including serving as a graphic editor for well-known global brands such as Men’s Health and National Geographic, among many others.
Since I’ve worked across publications and with businesses in almost every niche, each project required me to go deep into the subject matter, developing a strong understanding of each field while working closely with different specialists and people from those industries—over time building a broad, well-rounded understanding of how many different parts of the world and its topics actually work.
I have worked with hundreds of people across different fields, mostly intellectuals, but also individuals from all walks of life, collaborating with clients in almost every niche.
I still work today as a creative professional.
THIS PROJECT
This project brings together things I find interesting about personal development and human experience, expressed through a blog, a printed/PDF magazine, a video, and a book. An information designer’s take on how humans construct reality, work, and a life. In my perspectives and in my writing, I use subtle humor, not as contrast, but as part of the way meaning reveals itself. Not conclusions—just a way of seeing, one that developed slowly, as a story in linear time, made in a space outside of time.