... and welcome to my [[Digital Garden]]. > Heads up: this site is a still pretty raw. I'm slowly moving the best evergreen stuff from my personal vault over to this public one My real name is Kjartan Þórisson, but you can call me Kay, or even just "K", like the Starbucks baristas. The "Tzu" part is just for fun, and it grounds my otherwise "Western" personality in the Eastern tradition, alongside legends such as [[Sun Tzu]] and [[Lao Tzu]]. I am a self-educated programmer, a lifelong entrepreneur and the founder of [[Noona Labs]]. Born and based in Reykjavík, Iceland but I've got at least one foot in Portugal and the Czech Republic at all times, since we have bunch of great Noonians there. I am actively exploring what the AI revolution is enabling in terms of being a modern Renaissance Man – and finding balance between that and staying true to my humanity. I have a hungry and curious mind with whom I have a complicated relationship. I thirst for understanding and wisdom, illustrated by my personal mission to [[Understand the world well enough to confidently improve it]]. That can be a daunting task, as one's actions to improve the world are often liable to have [[Nth-order consequences]] which sometimes can cause unintended harm that is greater than the planned and hoped-for benefit. This is why I take my research, [[My search for Wisdom]] and my [[Note-making]] seriously. [[The world is at the same time very complex and very simple]]. It is governed by simple laws and the most universal truths are usually quite simple, but we [[Humans are great at making things more complicated than they need to be]] - and I often feel like that is especially true for me. **Currently working on:** 1. [Noona](https://noona.app/): The [[Omni-Win]] business platform 2. Project OS: An AI startup currently in stealth mode **Hobby projects:** 1. [Storylingo](https://storylingo.vercel.app/): Learn languages via stories 2. Hexwar: A fast-paced chess alternative (coming out soon) 3. [Leyndo](https://www.leyndo.is/login): A simple AI journalling and todo app **Digital gardens:** 1. [Thorisson.is](https://thorisson.is/Hall%C3%B3+Heimur!): My Icelandic HQ (Icelandic is my native language) 2. KayTzu.com (this site): My English HQ and digital garden --- *Me and the love of my life, [Rán Ísold Eysteinsdóttir](https://www.instagram.com/studio_ran/):* ![[D3C8A472-9D29-4A69-8AC5-CE446CC525CE_1_105_c.jpeg]]