I happen to life.

Who

Contradictions, mostly.

I am a humble man trapped between the fear of being mediocre and the anxiety of being unique.

Family first.

I come from a family of unconventional risk-takers who aspire to greatness in whatever we end up dedicating our time to, and who stick together no matter how much success each of us attains. Our suffering is part of our bond. Sometimes we are part of each other’s suffering, and it still binds us.

We have known darkness. We are not ordinary and don’t fit neatly anywhere. A bunch of characters: hard to live with, much harder to live without. It is a source of great pride to me.

I’m a father too, and I will risk all to excel in that role. As a great inspiration of mine, Nietzsche, said: a man who knows his why can bear any how. What you repeatedly reward becomes culture. Confidence, curiosity and weirdness survive where someone makes room for them.

“A wonky investment that has yet to yield.”my father

Accelerator.

I believe AI is the tool that helps us complete our humanity, and escape its worst parts.

Most people do not need to be restricted, censored, prevented, controlled, manipulated or lied to. The majority of us are constructive, positive forces of nature. The sheer weight of our efforts, the light we produce, can outshine even the darkness our worst produce. Freedom should be fostered, not dampened.

And freedom is not a free pass. I believe in responsibility, and in taking it. Dues get paid where they are due.

“…probably refers to multiple individuals…”an AI web search

Don’t believe me.

Here is what I think. Now try to break it. Agreement without resistance tells me nothing, which is why what I build is open and what I write invites falsification. I would rather discover I’m inadequate than be protected from the discovery.

“…a relentless contrarian…”Brave

Individualist. Shepherd.

I resist the herd and keep walking back towards people. I distrust authority and keep taking responsibility. I dislike dependence and build things for others to depend on.

Strength, to me, is an obligation. If you can carry more, carry more. And teach the person beside you to carry more tomorrow.

“Niels believes things should be better, always.”an old colleague

The shadow.

• I overbuild. I turn prototypes into cosmologies.
• I fall for an elegant abstraction long before anyone has asked for it.
• I judge too quickly and too harshly.
• I keep arguing after everyone else has stopped enjoying the game.
• I can keep walking after the group stopped two kilometres ago, and not notice.

I fall. I get back up. And I maintain standards that say you should do the same, always, every day. We have backs to carry loads, so they can grow stronger each day.

“Hard man to live with.”my wife

Strong-willed.

I don’t work for the approval of a herd. I work on self-actualisation: a deep respect of self, strong enough to carry the load for those I love.

Suffering is creation. Creation is often masked as destruction. The impetus for innovation was never comfort.

“I can’t establish… whether that is the same person.”ChatGPT, on my past and present

Life does not happen to me. I happen to life.

how I got here →what I’m building →

Path

Not a ladder.

On paper my history makes me look less coherent, not more. It’s allowed to look discontinuous. I learned to accept that this is who I am: a fiery blaze of contradictions. If I did, so can you.

1. The aesthetic phase.It let me adventure and explore, meet old and new souls all over the world, and challenge myself. The job was something. The wandering was everything.“…spent time in Tokyo, Japan, working as a VIP Manager…”Google
2. A family of characters.Part of an entrepreneurial family that has set up businesses around the world, some of which you could fairly call the best in their industry.
3. Imagine.I have dwelled in darkness and come back to the light, back into the fold. I escaped a darkness others say should be eternal. I have been the apex and the prey it was looking at, at the same time.
4. Real estate, media, my own businesses.I wrote. I sold. I organised. I managed. Several countries, several languages.
5. 2017 · Websites.I started making websites, and never stopped.
6. 2018 · C.I wanted to know what the machine was actually doing. Self-taught, as an adult, with nobody telling me at eighteen what my field was. Then PHP, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Linux, whatever the problem demanded.
7. RINO Amsterdam.Product owner, developer and sysadmin in postgraduate healthcare education. The day job.
8. 2023 · I wanted a better website.It became a framework. The framework needed a backend, the backend became a daemon, the daemon needed mathematics, the mathematics became a library. Geodineum.
9. Late 2024 · gMath.Deterministic mathematics, with no academic background in it. Open-sourced early 2026, with an open invitation to falsify it.

None of it was a plan. I show it because it is evidence that reinvention is possible, not because it is impressive.

what I’m building now →

Now

Building. Relentlessly.

I want to be part of the grand narrative of tomorrow, even if I risk becoming a footnote on how not to do it. So I build, every day, in the open. Not for polite applause, but for shock and awe, with the machinery exposed so you can check my work.

Geodineum

Brokers of Meaning. Agents of Progress.

I founded it, and I am proud to be represented by it. Geodineum is two things.

An open-source framework: a constellation of tools to build your dreams, to shape a future worth living in. Infrastructure that runs on hardware you own, with a Rust daemon at its heart (gNode), a PHP core (gCore), a theme contract (gTemplate) and deterministic mathematics underneath (gMath). No cloud dependency, no black boxes. This site runs on it, tesseract and all.

And a company of the future. We do serious data analysis, build analytics dashboards, and publish the open-source tools that prove our results.

I hope the framework becomes an exoskeleton for many builders. And when you scale, I hope you come back to me for it.

geodineum.com · results · solutions · source

gMath

Deterministic mathematics without floating point: the same bits on every machine, every time. source · docs

Working with machines

Not “do this for me”. Help me become capable of what I couldn’t do before. Most of what’s on this site was built by one curious human and increasingly capable models, working on each other’s limits. The interesting part isn’t replacement. It’s the combination.

People rarely attribute the magic of Hendrix to his guitar. Do not conflate the builder with his tools.

Honest status: some of it is elegant, some excessive, some unfinished. Architecture before proof is how I usually fall. Then I get back up and prove it.

tell me what’s wrong with it →