Hey, I’m Giorgio 👋🏽 When I was 16 years old I taught myself how to code, so that I could build an app the way I wanted it for my workouts. I’ve been starting a couple of other tech startups after that as well, but I often felt that I couldn’t give my heart to any of them and kept searching for something that matters to me. I started experimenting a lot with my mind, exploring my feelings, collecting experiences, building new skills and learning about new topics.

I turned my life into an active laboratory, to either understand my passions or - once something resonated - evolve my skillset and knowledge around it. Batchbrew is the tool for questioning, learning and skill-building I wish existed 10 years ago.

Principles I live by

These are my life-principles - in no particular order - that influence how I think, speak, and act. They are not put in stone, but they are my best take based on my current understanding of my reality.

True value lies in the craft itself; the craft matters more than the crafted and compounds in material value as a result of doing great work Article draft →

All you see are side-effects of (sometimes hidden) systems. Know the symptoms, focus on the root Article work-in-progress

Practice essentialism in every move, every asset, every expression

Take ownership of your story, align it with your heart. The stories we tell ourselves about our experiences are all human-made

Start again, over and over, as often as it’s necessary, with a beginners mind

The heart leads, the mind paves the way

Complaining delegates control over your mind to an external source

Challenges and suffering are signposts for growth

The material follows the practice, the practice follows the mind

Invest into what can be sustained, drop what is a forced act. Manage your resources for the long-game

Generate advancement with every move. Evolution weighs more than perfectionism

Every particle matters, every move counts

Add value to peoples life

Spend time in Non-Dualism

Steal, but never copy. Give credit, take responsibility, be respectful. Make it yours, add value, enrich it, then pass it on

Don’t take anyone or anything for granted

Meditate, go deep in the heart, practice being mindful. To find truth, turn inwards

Honour the journey; protect its privacy and intimacy

Build a strong foundation and everything else will flock to you

All complex is born from the simple

Act with intention, know where you’re going

Don’t push to early ripening; don’t delay the harvest. Leverage each cycle for advancement

Find clarity, learn who you are, know yourself. Invest whatever it takes, its your fuel and your engine

Truth and alignment weigh more than discipline and willpower

Don’t try to be special, embrace your uniqueness instead

What you repeat over and over persists, and everything else fades

Do a move every day, through every faculty of yours. Cultivate all your faculties

Build environments, and the right seeds will flourish

The world becomes a better place when we all do what we love, motivated from our heart

Using and channeling all of our nature (skills, deeds, crafts) is the practice of living our highest form of life

“Failure” is a label. “Success” is a label. They are both part of the journey, use these experience wisely, refrain from creating a loaded story around them

Don’t profile yourself in misalignment to your heart

Fear is a signpost for a fork in your path

Decide from the heart for everything that is related to your life-path. Decide through the mind for how to execute

Achieving calculated outcomes proofs that you chose the right process, so celebrate the process. Achieving unexpected, positive outcomes is a reason to celebrate, and an opportunity to learn. Achieving unexpected, negative outcomes is a reason to revise

Honesty when combined with transparency is the foundation for alignment, trust and support

Create what you love, and what only you can create

I’m working on turning these principles into blog posts to explain them in more depth. I’ll publish a new post roughly once per month publicly on https://medium.com/@giorgiogross