A life quest of
collecting the gems into
a holistic constellation.
I believe we should choose what reduces suffering and increases well-being for as many as possible. That we cannot have true democracy without democracy in the economy and the workplace. That a more positive world can emerge through our choices to participate in new, caring ecosystems — and I want to contribute in accelerating the transition to shared prosperity.
A system that didn't work — and the question it left.
I grew up in Dagestan, inside societal arrangements that failed the people living in them — and I think that it is a big part of what drives me. 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 one question: what would systems that actually care look like?
My family emigrated to Sweden. I began natural sciences in gymnasium/high school. I didn't finish — my family had to hide from Swedish emigration agency that wanted to send us back to Dagestan, Russia. But that year gave me time to reflect and 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.Tech, startups, and the logic of building.
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 some things about entrepreneurship — how ventures start, grow, stumble and pivot. I absorbed some logic of building: iterate, test, ship, learn fast. But I sensed that the current culture of running enterprises wouldn't answer the question I carried. So my free time during those years was dedicated to learning widely and experimenting with entrepreneurial ideas in connection to world problems.
The work no one assigned — and no one saw.
For years, alongside every formal engagement, I've been on a self-directed quest: disciplined, relentless study aimed at discovering the most effectful solutions for lasting transformations toward common good. I really wanted to understand how the current system works... how it all is connected. Monetary system, banking, economics, finance, funding, investments... what kind of dynamics and cycles it created. And why we are stuck in them despite all good intentions. I traversed through fields, thinkers, solutions, and examples to gain a holistic picture. Systems Thinking, Murray Bookchin, Democratic Confederalism, Elinor Ostrom, Donella Meadows, Cooperative Movement, Positive Money, Grassroots Economics, Sociocratic Governance, Mutual Credit, Quadratic Funding, Decentralized Autonomous Organization, FairShares Commons, and inventive environments like Bell Labs — each studied as living practice.
The map of models, methods, examples, philosophies and practices — I built that on my own time, out of my own will. This is the inner resource I bring: a mind trained to see possibilities, trace root causes, and design pathways toward systems that actually serve life. The living examples and models I've studied are now collected at convivial.systems — a resource I've set up for anyone on a similar quest.
Swedish Folkbildning — the art of learning by doing.
A bunch of courses spanning years within Swedish tradition of human cultivation.
"Folkbildning" — a culture of co-learning where you don't just absorb knowledge, you build it together.
Each course was a deliberate choice: a new tool for the kit, it gave me three things:
envisioning & expressing — storytelling, film-making, drama-pedagogy and theater for empathy and voice, facing the stammering complex I'd carried since Dagestan;
healing & embodying — somatic practices for nervous-system healing and embodying the safe and sound world I strive towards.
Immersing myself into imagined worlds and fetching the insights and intuitions about the directions we ought to pursue;
executing & implementing — sociocracy, social mobilization and social entrepreneurship for effective organization, governance, and practical implementation.
Storytelling for expression, somatic work for capacity, governance for structure, entrepreneurship for action —
each a facet for the same mission.
From sensing the futures to the soils where it is being built — living in local systems.
Since 2022 I've been building from within — living in a housing cooperative (Röda Oasen, where we own, build, manage, and help each other with everyday life — food, kids, care), Alongside that, i was working hands-on with pedagogy and faciliation of activites in community spaces for kids, youth, adults, elderly, and people with functional variablilities. I was also deepening into the cooperative sector: Find Your Crew (practically building event/festival infrastructure), Backa Kåken (creating space for culture, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation), Drevet.org (community spaces, democratic neighbourhoods, circular- and sharing economy), and sporadic assignments as an RFSU sex educator. Not theorizing about care from a desk — building it, day by day. You have to be in touch with the mess of human needs to understand what care actually requires.
SundRoot — where all the threads converge.
SundRoot is an approach to constructing community ecosystems that mobilize resources and orchestrate them through processes led by collective wisdom for shared prosperity. It is about creating local economies and local funds that are empowering people locally. Working bottom-up, weaving together societies of care. Such social fabric has built-in reinvestment loops making systems self-improving and self-growing... expanding and replicating what works well. I am co-organizing the Cooperative Network in Malmö, Sweden and proactively seeking opportunities to kick-start cooperative initiatives. I was part of kick-starting a tech cooperative and a community process in Lindängen to lift the neighbourhood through cooperative enterprise. There are many other up and coming initatives that you can see at...
Communities I learn with.
Languages, movement, play and inventions.
Languages I have mastered so far: English, Russian, Swedish. I wish to learn Spanish next. I strive to prioritize my vitality to be able to contribute in the best way I can. Sports, movement are part of my life to stay balanced. The body matters as much as the mind; I trust ideas more if they have been sensed, felt, embodied and tested in motion. I'm also curious about inventions and technology — low-tech, high-tech, deep-tech, sci-fi. I like to pose a question of what environments can solve problems and create breakthroughs... how can encouraging, safe and stimulating environments be created to facilitate invention? How can different fields interplay with each other to create a holistic view of problems and solutions? Most importantly, I wish to establish environments that instill the symbiosis between technology, humanity and nature à la Solarpunk vision.
Want to talk?
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.