I have always tinkered around with computers. I came close to the open-source community at age 12 with the Slackware Linux Project, and since then, I have always sought opportunities to build technologies that could have a positive impact on people's lives. My interest in technology was hybridized with contemporary culture from figurative arts to music through cinema and critical theory, primarily via Mark Fisher and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Hence, the civic-centered community-minded approach I have today with technology.