World explorer with Nordic roots. Helsinki is home. I've lived in San Diego and Copenhagen before.

Excited about life and learning!

Working in the intersection of design, tech, and business. Serious music nerd and occasional DJ. Big into books, meditation, and software. Love exploring nature and wild places.

Interests

• writing
• books
• design
• cooking
• meditation
• technology
• board games
• music
• camping
• surfing
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• entrepreneurship
• history
• languages
• mountains
• nature
• film
• longboarding
• programming

Music, Movies, and Books

Don't know the list hits, but love different kinds of music like house, techno, indie, folk, soul, disco, funk, afro-beat, and jazz. Sweet spot for shoegaze, psychedelic rock, dream pop, anything immersive and dreamy. Bands like My Bloody Valentine, Beach House, Slowdive, Tame Impala, Cocteau Twins.

I read a lot of stuff on psychology, philosophy, history, biographies, and science. Some fiction, too. Hard to choose favorites, but some I've really enjoyed include Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Sapiens, Thinking Fast And Slow, Influence, Principles, Zero To One, Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow, Graveyard Book, and Born a Crime.

Some movies I could watch again and again include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost In Translation, The Skin I Live In, 2001, Inception, Get Out, and Her. Basically anything from Wes Anderson, Studio Ghibli, and Pixar. Love Exposure is weird and great.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled to Ghana after high school and ended up volunteering as a teacher in a village school

Teach, Learn, Share

Words to live by:

"The most important time is now. The present is the only time over which we have power. The most important person is whoever you are with. The most important thing is to do good to the person you are with."

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Finland, United States