About.
A Human Technologist builds companies, brands and people, and keeps asking the question technology cannot ask itself: does this serve life?
The integration
I grew up between a creative, spiritual mother and a father who was a professor of physics, a childhood around university laboratories. It became a life spent moving between apparent opposites: technology and embodiment, capital and culture, analysis and imagination. I took electronics apart, built computers, and began to code at thirteen.
Then the human systems. Business, psychology, market research, brands, corporate development, new ventures: from corporate development at Bertelsmann to brand strategy for private equity and venture development for the House of Trust at Davos.
Ten years building and leading a private investment company followed, and with it a deeper move, from evaluating companies to building them. In 2007 I founded Neumorgen, the applied studio for that work: brands, ventures, organizations, and people.
Alongside all of it, I kept training the human instrument: acting and improvisation, business coaching, We-Flow, Socratic Design, health, human performance, and consciousness research.
Then I rebuilt myself. For two years my closest working partner has been an AI system I built around the way I think, decide and remember. In the same years I trained formally in Japan, in a Samurai lineage. One practice sharpened the machine. The other sharpened the human using it.
The two accelerations
Two accelerations are happening at once. Machines are learning to think. Humans are being asked, more urgently than ever, to become human. Most of the world treats these as separate stories. I work at the point where they meet.
Every system we build is a vote: for extraction or for life. The work of this age is not to slow the machines down. It is to make the human questions run as fast as the code. Does this serve life? Does it serve the person in front of you? Is it beautiful? Does it bring us closer together?
That is the full circle. Technology began as our way out of being merely human. Built right, it becomes our way back. The building happens inside companies, brands and people. The conversation happens in public: on stages, in rooms, wherever culture is deciding what it will become.
Beliefs
United. Nothing consequential is built alone.
Human. The machine is the mechanism. The human is the point.
10x. Improvements must compound, not disappear.
Mentor lineage
„Jan Bruch, der Furchtlose, für den keine Hürde gilt.“
Jan Bruch, the Fearless, for whom no hurdle holds.
Prof. Vilim Vasata, Executive Vice President BBDO Worldwide
source: private inscription, 2010
Four teachers shaped four dimensions of my work. Prof. Vilim Vasata taught me how brands and creative ideas move culture. Dr. Howard Moskowitz grounded my understanding of human preference in psychophysics and evidence. Humberto Schwab helped me understand how culture conditions identity, and how Socratic inquiry can loosen it. Sensei Zen Takai continues to teach me precision, relaxed focus and decisive action.
Mindvalley Certified Business Coach · We-Flow Steward · Socratic Design Ambassador
Human Technologist is not a reinvention. It is the integration of a life spent moving between machines and humans, capital and culture, analysis and embodiment.
The human instrument and the machine one, sharpened together.