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👋 Hey

I’m Zowie. I like building, a lot. Generally I operate on two principles:

  • I do work that I feel is play, with A-players that love work the same way.
  • What you do is who you are.

This allows me to sustainably work those 60+ hours everyone talks about :)

So here’s what I do right now:

  • Building an AI bank for the agentic companies of the future. Pan EU, because the EU has to get its sh*t together to stay competitive.
  • Built a passion project: an ultimate self-directed learning product -> Integrate
  • I write small angel checks and host a deal group - it’s lightweight, founders for founders.
  • Organizing a global community of founders, operators and science people with catalyst.place. We host epic retreats with epic people.
  • Reading (let’s connect if we read similarly!)
  • Calisthenics
  • Driving bikes (Moto Guzzi lover here) in beautiful areas around the world, if I find time :)

Stuff I think about

I’m interested in public interest technology, and fascinated by the idea of flourishing/Eudaimonia with the aid of technology and a hint of futurism. And how to build cool stuff.

A thing I think about right now: AI is shrinking the feedback loop between research and consequence. Mathematicians and theoretical physicists used to have decades between a theorem and its impact on the world, so you could do beautiful work without ever feeling responsible for its power. That’s becoming a luxury of the past. I wrote a short note on it, sparked by my dear friend Luuk’s essay AI, Human Stupidity, and Mathematical Progress.

I’ve been doing the CTO/founder thing for over a decade now so I’ve touched a lot of stuff; all kinds of programming languages, DevOps tools, frontend, apps, you name it. Jack of all trades, master of none. But with genAI that matters less. If you can steer the AI and reason well, you can now do a lot more in fields where you’re not an expert at all. You still won’t be a master. But you’ll be useful, and I think useful gets you pretty far.

Find me:

You can mostly find me trying to build ideas, my body and mind, infrastructure or software. Maybe some more physical things soon. Or just something I broke by accident ;)

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