Maximilian "Mili" Rehn
Made in Helsinki, currently traveling the world through tech communities
Master of Science in Information Networks from Aalto University
Sharing thoughts through: podcast and blog
Competitive gaming (top 0.1-1%): Global Elite in Counter-Strike, Legendary in Hearthstone, Top 100 PKer in RuneScape, Master in StarCraft 2
Second Lieutenant in the Finnish Army Reserve
Other interests: neuroscience, crypto, gym, AI, longevity, yoga, human potential, racket sports, bjj, travel, and reading lots and lots of books
Active on X · YouTube · Instagram · Telegram — or email firstname.lastname at gmail
Find me everywhere: linktr.ee/maximilianrehn
What I'm exploring
Popup Living
What happens when you intentionally design how people live together? Popup cities like Zuzalu, coliving experiments, network states, and the idea that the built environment shapes culture more than we admit.
Personal AI Agents
AI that actually works for you. Projects like OpenClaw and open-source agent frameworks that give individuals real leverage. The dream of a personal AI staff that handles research, scheduling, coding, and communication.
Accelerating Wisdom & Self-Development
Speed-running personal growth. Combining ancient contemplative traditions with modern tools—journaling systems, deliberate practice, feedback loops, and protocols for becoming a better human faster.
Consciousness & Metacognition
What is awareness aware of? The hard problem of consciousness, meditation as empirical investigation, metacognitive training, and the strange loop of a mind trying to understand itself.
Longevity & Optimized Health
Bryan Johnson's Blueprint protocol as a starting point for the question: how far can we push human healthspan? Biomarkers, sleep optimization, nutrition science, and treating aging as an engineering problem.
Decentralized Internet
Taking back the stack. Protocols over platforms, self-sovereign identity, local-first software, peer-to-peer networks, and the long game of building internet infrastructure that no single entity controls.
Bootstrapping Apps
Building products without permission or funding. Indie hacking, solo dev stacks, vibe coding with AI, rapid prototyping, and the new economics of one-person software businesses powered by LLMs.
The Permanent Underclass
What happens to people who can't keep up with AI? If intelligence becomes a commodity, entire classes of work disappear overnight. The gap between those who leverage AI and those displaced by it could become the defining inequality of our time.
The Singularity & AGI
We're building something smarter than us and nobody has a plan. The race to AGI, alignment problems, capability overhang, economic displacement, and the question nobody wants to answer: what happens to people who can't keep up?