About

Things I start

Artificial intelligence, automation and new technology take up most of my attention outside work. The field moves absurdly fast — a few days away can be enough to come back to new models, new tools, or an entirely different way of working. That is exactly what pulls me in.

So I experiment, and I build my own projects. I do not finish all of them. Some turn out to be far harder than I assumed at the start, but I treat those as experiments and as learning rather than as failures.

One was a stock market project meant to try to recognise the signals that come before serious market breakdowns and trouble in the banking sector. Another was a system that would look through GitHub repositories on its own, find problems and try to fix them. Both grew very complex and I put both on the shelf. I don't think of either as definitively abandoned — they are too interesting not to come back to one day.

I also have a trait that is a strength and a weakness at the same time. Once a problem genuinely interests me, I find it hard to stop thinking about it. I can spend far too much time reading, experimenting and building yet another version of a solution. I am trying to learn a better balance. It does not always work.

Where the curiosity comes from

Beyond AI, I am drawn to futurology, to history — the Second World War in particular — and to the question of how technology changes people and the world around them.

That curiosity has been there more or less from the beginning. I grew up in Poland in the 1990s, when most free time was spent outside: football, friends, playing until dark, and far fewer screens than today. And I remember that even then I could spend a long time looking at the night sky, wondering how big the universe actually is, whether other civilisations exist somewhere in it, and how small we are next to that scale.

I think it stayed. I still like things I don’t fully understand yet.

Away from the screen

Travel is a large part of my life. I have lived and worked in a few countries, among them Scotland — in Glasgow — and the Netherlands. I like getting to know new places, watching how people live in them, and doing things I had no experience of before.

Trekking especially. One of the longer routes I have walked is the Fishermen’s Trail in Portugal; the next one planned is the Trail of the Eagles’ Nests in Poland. There is something in a long walk that is hard to find at a desk — for a few hours the only task is to keep going.

Music is another. Rock and metal are closest to me, and concerts are one of my favourite ways to spend time.

For simpler pleasures, Italian food wins — pizza, pasta and lasagne are high on the list, although Polish cooking still competes very effectively. In films, the ones that stay with me put people in extreme situations, or force a question about reality and your own place in it: Saving Private Ryan, Cube, Mr. Nobody, The Matrix.