Excited to mentor projects on
- Solarpunk
- Thriving ecosystem in post-AGI world
- Gaia theory
- Interbeing
- Art projects
- Permaculture
- Projects that push the limits of who we consider sentient/agentic, especially if they extend this range to natural formations, organisations, species, physical or mental objects, fields etc.
Who I'm looking for
- Direct communication
- Open to feedback
- Willing to abandon established paradigms
- Growth mindset
Support offered
- Shaping direction
- Drafting
- Accountabiity
- Fundraising/Grantwriting
- Facilitiating connections (if applicable)
- Critical review
- format
- Research & writing · Product & entrepreneurship · Field-building & outreach · Project scoping
- topic
- Tools for advocates · Post-AGI transition · Longtermism · Artificial sentience · Neglected animal groups · Macrostrategy · Other
Dávid Katona
I lead growth and product at a European SaaS company. Before software, I spent years as a project coordinator and grant writer for a cultural NGO, and was a multidisciplinary artist, a literary translator, and a touring musician, so I'm comfortable turning a values-driven, ambiguous idea (aka a vision) into concrete, fundable, communicable projects.
Outside of work, I run a small permacultural homestead in rural Hungary. Solarpunk is less an aesthetic to me than a working method: technology and ecology as allies, resilience assembled at the scale of a household and a community, and imagination engaged with the same seriousness, skill, and attention as we bring to using a chainsaw or a laptop.
I think one of the most interesting threads in the AGI conversation is how it might loosen humanity's grip on being the only mind that counts. I take that as an opening for something like a renaissance of animism: taking seriously that intelligence, agency, and moral standing were never ours alone to claim and exercise. I'd love to mentor projects that sit in that space: preferably practical, buildable work that expands who we take seriously, regardless of whether they have a face, are carbon-based, or live at the same pace we do.