Roman Semko

I don't believe everything in life has to be fully understood. If we look closely, we realise that even the things we think we “know” are filtered through our own perspective and assumptions. There is always a large part that remains unknown, and learning to live with that - to accept the mysteries that come with existence - feels to me like a way of more fully accepting life itself. Our limitations define the shape of our experience, and the effort to move and create within those limits is a big part of what makes life engaging. The things we cannot quite explain often end up being the source of imagination, creativity, and inspiration.

With that in mind, I can offer a short glimpse into my world and how I see myself at the moment, and then leave enough space for your own imagination to fill in the rest.

What Moves Me

I've always felt drawn to both the very concrete and the more intangible sides of life. Computers have been around me since I was young - physical objects that can still feel a bit magical, like a kind of modern instrument for shaping reality. The steady progress of technology still surprises me from time to time: the Internet, smartphones, cloud infrastructure, DLT, AI - I've watched many of these waves arrive and change how we live. And yet, even with all of this, there is always a part of the world that remains beyond full explanation.

In my professional work as a DLT architect and AI researcher, I spend a lot of time exploring where current technologies might lead us. I'm interested in questions like how distributed finance will evolve over the next decade, how far AI can go in imitating or supporting aspects of human thought, and where the line remains that makes a human being more than the sum of patterns in data.

Alongside that, I'm equally interested in the inner, less measurable territory: what we call mind, or consciousness, and the questions people have asked for centuries about meaning and identity. I read and think about philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, not to arrive at final answers, but to refine the questions and see how they land in my own life.

In the end, I don't expect every question to have a clear or final answer. I'm more comfortable these days with the idea that a meaningful life has a lot to do with expressing your own perspective as honestly as you can - your particular way of seeing and responding to reality. Any perspective is, by nature, incomplete, and that gap leaves room for the deeper, often unconscious, parts of us to contribute in ways that can't be fully planned or automated.

In practical terms, I explore this through the things I make and the practices I keep: writing and shipping code, painting when the mood strikes, and working with analog photography using my old Nikon FE2, which slows the process down enough that I can really pay attention.

This is my way of taking part in the world: staying curious, building things, and trying to live in a way that feels true to what matters to me.

Where It Takes Me

current explorations and field notes