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.