Not a line of jobs. A journey through systems thinking, societal and economic systems, technology, storytelling and arts, STEM, innovation, entrepreneurship and philosophy — converging toward one question: how do we build societies that serve all life?
I grew up in Dagestan, inside societal arrangements that failed the people living in them. That's not just some background information — it's the engine. My body is an imprint of things that didn't work in the society. The tensions in the air translated into the tensions in the body. I carried that and the stammering complex it produced in my body for years. Most importantly it evoked a relentless drive to figure a way out. I carried the question with me: what would systems that actually care look like?
I began natural sciences in gymnasium/high school. I didn't finish — my family had to hide from Swedish emigration authorities that wanted to send us back to Dagestan, Russia. But that truncated year planted something that never left: a feeling that my life's work should aim at the greatest positive difference I could make for the world. That became my philosophical compass.
Learning programming while hiding gave me opportunity to work when my family finally got a residency permit in Sweden. For some years after I worked in programming, the startup world, digital marketing and content creation. I learned entrepreneurship from the inside — how ventures start, grow, stumble and pivot. I absorbed the logic of building: iterate, test, ship, learn fast.
I also spent those years reading widely and experimenting with entrepreneurial ideas in connection to world problems. The startup mindset taught me that things don't have to be the way they are — but I was already sensing that currently dominant culture of the enterprise world wouldn't answer the question I carried. That's when the real work began — the kind that doesn't show up on any CV.
What follows doesn't appear on any document. There's no certificate for it, no employer who asked for it, no course that required it. But it's the engine behind everything else on this page.
For years — alongside and between every formal engagement listed here — I've been on a self-directed quest. Not casual reading. Disciplined, relentless, intentional study aimed at one question: what are the most effectful solutions for lasting transformations toward common good?
Countless documentaries, articles, books, podcasts, lectures, YouTube deep-dives. Hundreds of hours tracing ideas across histories, countries, and disciplines. Following threads from one thinker to the next, from one living example to the next, building a mental map that no single course or program could ever assemble.
I trained my mind to see systems — to trace incentive structures to their roots, to spot where leverage actually lives, to understand why good intentions get washed away by structural currents. I studied how ownership shapes power, how governance shapes culture, how money shapes what economy orients itself around. I collected proven models from past and present — and imagined how they could be synthesized into something that hasn't existed yet.
The courses and jobs on this page gave me tools. But the map — the large map of models, methods, examples, philosophies and practices — I built that myself, on my own time, out of my own will.
The thinkers and traditions I've immersed myself in include Murray Bookchin and democratic confederalism, mutualism and cooperative economics, the Spanish Mondragón and Italian cooperative consortiums, Grassroots Economics and complementary currency systems. Donella Meadows on systems leverage. Elinor Ostrom on the commons. Paulo Freire on liberation pedagogy. Participatory budgeting, mutual credit, quadratic funding, DAOs, sociocratic governance, FairShares commons models — each studied not as theory but as living practice I could draw from.
None of this was assigned. All of it was voluntary — done on my free time, out of my own dedication. This is the inner resource I bring to everything I do. Not just skills gathered from courses, but a mind trained to see possibilities, to trace root causes, and to design pathways toward systems that actually serve life.
I'll be collecting the living examples and models I've studied at convivial.systems — a resource I'm setting up for anyone on a similar quest.
From 2020 onward I turned toward the Swedish folk high school tradition (folkbildning) — a culture of co-learning where you don't absorb knowledge, you build it together. Each course was a deliberate choice: a new tool for the kit, not a line on a CV.
Film production, editing, visual storytelling. Learning to craft narratives that move people, not just inform them.
Storytelling, theater and drama education. Learning to guide groups through embodied experience — insight that lives in the body, not just the head.
Month-long summer camps to sharpen creative abilities. My package included an independent artistic project producing interactive audio-story experiences; courses in political stage art and interactive art; stage performance, movement, imagination, improvisation, voice and the poetic modalities.
Inventiveness directed at establishing processes for broad collective prosperity.
Healing practices, well-being and vitality. Methods for richer, deeper, holistic interaction between people — somatic practices, movement, dance therapy, body work, authentic relating. Guiding people into favourable states that bring forth their capacities and potential.
A toolbox of methods for smooth processes in organized work — meetings, planning, decision-making, execution, review, iteration. Governance that works because it's designed to, not because people are well-meaning.
Ongoing courses deepening the practice of mobilizing communities and building entrepreneurial capacity for common good.
Looking back, the thread is visible: storytelling and arts for empathy, somatic practices for depth, sociocracy for governance, social entrepreneurship for action. Each was a facet of the same diamond — how do people organize to create the world they want to live in?
Education was never enough on its own. Since 2022 I've been living and working inside cooperative and collective ventures — not advising from outside, but building from within.
A housing cooperative where we own, build and manage the building we live in. Collective work, shared life, and projects for public benefit. Living the practice of community, not just studying it.
Extra pedagogue at a preschool in Höör. Dance for children and youth at Drömmarnas Hus cultural centre. Personal assistance at Kooperativet Vilja. Working hands-on with people — the ground truth of why systems matter.
Three cooperatives, three facets of the same vision:
Find Your Crew (FYC) — builds infrastructure for events and festivals. The practical craft of making things work at scale.
Backa Kåken — a member-owned cooperative creating space for culture, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation. A convergence point for people of all abilities who create and transform through exchange.
Drevet.org — builds social infrastructure and develops local communities. Establishing democratic platforms for residents in decision-making. Kickstarting meeting places and coordinating mutual aid, self-sufficiency and activities. Developing sharing economies and stimulating reuse and repair through assignments like Popup Returen. A hub for education and activities for children and adults.
Providing sex education in schools and beyond. Another form of empowerment: giving people knowledge about their own bodies, boundaries and relationships.
From November 2025, I've been building SundRoot — an approach to constructing ecosystems that mobilize resources and orchestrate them through processes led by collective wisdom for shared prosperity.
Through SundRoot I organized the Kooperativt Nätverk in the Malmö region and proactively sought opportunities, initiating several cooperative ventures: a tech cooperative and a community process in Lindängen to lift the neighbourhood through cooperative enterprise.
This is where everything meets. The startup mindset. The sociocratic governance. The drama pedagogy. The somatic practices. The filmmaking. The social work. The philosophy. Not a career — a convergence.
I don't do this alone. These are the networks and movements where I participate, learn and contribute:
Languages: English, Russian, Swedish.
I've played sports — football, martial arts. I like to move. Physical activity, VR. The body matters as much as the mind; I don't trust ideas that haven't been tested in motion.
If something here resonates — a shared question, a possible collaboration, a fund you want to direct toward systems change — let's start with a conversation.