I trained as an architect, but making buildings was never really my thing. What fascinated me was why things look the way they do, what a building says about the culture, politics, and moment that made it, and how those ideas get communicated, misunderstood, meme-ified, and eventually become culture. Turns out that's a different skill from architecture. So I started following that curiosity instead.

Since then, I've worked inside a founder's office, run marketing at an AI startup, presented research on internet culture at Politecnico di Milano, won a $10,000 challenge with a team of five, and led a 50-person cultural organisation in college. None of it was planned. It was just what happened when I stopped trying to fit a mould and started paying attention to what actually interested me.

I don't have a tidy five-year plan. But what I do have is a growing conviction that I want to build something of my own eventually. And right now, working close to founders and across functions seems like a pretty good place to start.