I started learning English at 5. The language unlocked many doors. Merit scholarship to a private school, some college acceptances (didn't pursue college though), and endless Discord on Reddit and Twitter.

But of all these, it taught me to learn things on my own. And so I learnt to become an autodidact.

At 16, in high school, I studied philosophy and politics. I wanted to get into Yale. Wrote a paper on Silk Road politics with a Virginia Tech prof (Yes, they have social science professors. I didn't know that either). Dropped social science months later, still 16. Realized endless bureaucracy wasn't for me (as much as I like to talk a lot).

At 18, I had this little project called Agora that I founded in January 2025. Agora connected students with creative writing mentors. I did everything: sales calls, custdevs, running the social media page, some bit of teaching on my end, and even pushed a few commits to GitHub to set up our website. Reached about 5k USD revenue per month and sold it off to a bigger educational company in town early 2026.

Agora helped me answer a question that's long been lingering in my mind: what I want to do with this life as a multi-celled organism. I knew I wanted to make some impact on the world (and ofc make money in the process). The purpose seemed to align with whatever moral compass I've been born with. I don't know why specifically. I doubt anyone does. We just — do things.

Before my Agora exit, I started getting technical. Did a few challenges to leaf through AI papers. Did the AI500 hackathon and somehow ended up getting the first place with 20k USD and an agri-tech project on machine vision.

Later joined a robotics lab in a local university and researched wireless power transfer for moving robots, sharing a lab with Professor Belov. Made some updates on my LinkedIn somewhere in the middle, and in no time I had found an offer from Higgsfield in my inbox: growth manager.

Joined Higgsfield. Worked very hard for 3 months. Hosted Iman Gadzhi in the office, talked about efficient computing with Yerzat Dulat (the CTO at Higgs), became a smoke buddy (I don't smoke. I was just watching) with one of the founding engineers, and burnt 100k USD in creator partnerships.

In short, Higgs was fun, but I quit. I was working 90-100 hours per week on a startup that wasn't my own. The company scaled fast, but the scope of my work didn't seem to challenge me enough. After all, Higgsfield was an AI-media company. What really fascinated me was tweaking bolts on a robot part and nerding out on π intelligence papers.

So right now, I am unemployed. Learning physical ai in the middle of somewhere.