Curious Life

Making the Invisible Visible

Applied Consciousness Development Technology

Accurate self sensing is a key precondition for growth.

At Curious Life, we use technology and embodied wisdom practice to create the conditions that unmask hidden patterns and develop measurable, systematic paths toward desired states of being.

The science of spirituality has been waiting for its technological container.

We are developing tools and methodologies that make the invisible information patterns of the human mind explicit and navigable.

Consciousness Cartography

We analyze the record of how a mind moves—conversations, journals, transcripts—extracting the patterns shaping decisions and actions that remain invisible from inside them.

From this, a map emerges. A navigable shape of the mind: current patterns, animating drives, measurable distance to desired states.

Personal intelligence that turns scattered data into precise self-sensing and real leverage over the shape of a life.

The Methodology

Pattern extraction — analyzing the data you're already generating to surface the forces shaping decisions and actions.
Mathematical measurement — information theoretic analysis that makes personal development precise and quantitative.
Navigable development — patterns reflected back at critical moments, progress made visible, desired states made systematically reachable.

Who This Is For

If you suspect your own data holds self-knowledge you can't yet access.

If you're curious what's driving the patterns you can't see from the inside.

If you want consciousness development that's precise, not just profound.

This is for you.

The Opening

Join the first cohort of applied consciousness development.

  • Build your private data bank
  • Extract the patterns shaping your mind and life
  • Gain sovereignty of your inner architecture
  • Practice actively authoring the life you'd want to read about

A small group. Peers invested in the same work.

Your data stays with you. Always.

Apply

About

Martin Balodis

Martin is a biologist and tech entrepreneur. He co-founded an AI-enabled education company that grew to 500,000+ users, then walked away when chasing external success severed him from his core. That gap—between what gets validation versus what matters—became his research question.

For more than a decade he's developed first-person methodologies for navigating consciousness: meditation, silent retreats, shadow integration, systematic exploration of non-ordinary states. This work evolved into making the invisible visible—mapping the patterns of a life, then building measurable paths toward desired ways of being.

Curious Life is the practice and the laboratory.

Nate Shenkute

Nate is a mathematician and data scientist. He built commercial intelligence systems treating organizations as complex systems with discoverable mathematical structures. Somewhere in that work, he noticed the same patterns appearing everywhere—statistical field theory, relationship dynamics, consciousness itself.

That noticing became method: detecting universal structures across seemingly unrelated domains. Mathematical echolocation.

His animating question: can authenticity be made systematically achievable? Can consciousness be measured and developed without losing the wonder that makes it worth developing?

At Curious Life, he builds the frameworks that make the invisible measurable.