That website led me to astrology, Human Design and the question of why some people seem to flourish while others keep running up against themselves. The more I learned about it, the more I discovered that many of those systems are really trying to describe the same thing: what moves a human being.

Not the human being as we think he ought to be, or what humanity has become, but what truly moves us.

The idea for a book arose even before that search began. At first I simply wanted to write a story for myself, with the help of AI. Build a world, follow characters, and explore what happens when people are confronted with truth, power, freedom and responsibility. And suddenly I had an entire book and material enough for a series. But as so often happens, it did not stay a story alone.

The book required research. A great deal of research. Philosophy, psychology, history, economics, sociology. The more I read, the more connections became visible. And somewhere along the way something happened that I had not foreseen.

The story began to mirror me: how do I live my truth, when do I really look, listen and feel. Looking back, that resulted in a thorough bore-out at my employer; I could no longer see the truthfulness in it.

What makes a society truly just? Why do people seem to make the same mistakes over and over again? What happens when honesty becomes more important than being right? And what would emerge if we designed a society from truthfulness instead of power, and what is that power?

That brought me, unexpectedly often, to Socrates and Plato. Not because they had all the answers, but because they asked the right questions.

At the same time, while writing, I ran into a practical problem. None of the existing writing systems worked the way I wanted. So I did what I usually do when something is missing: I built it myself.

What began as a tool for my own book is by now growing into an extensive platform for writers. An environment where authors can work safely online, invite beta readers, gather feedback and organise their entire creative process. New features arrive every week, and slowly it is becoming something where I think: more writers could enjoy this.

Alongside that, I am still working on the development of Consteia itself. The original dream remains unchanged. I want to inspire people to understand themselves better. Not by telling them who they are, but by developing tools that help them discover it for themselves.

That is why I am currently working on a new analysis tool in which insights from astrology, Human Design, psychology and personality models come together. That is turning out to be a considerably greater challenge than I first thought. Less so technically, and mostly in substance. Behind every analysis lie hundreds of descriptions, connections and nuances that have to be worked out with care.

Sometimes I look at everything still waiting and think that I have gathered enough work for the next two years.

And then I remember that I also wanted to finish that calendar one day.

The beautiful thing is that these days I am no longer so occupied with the question of where all of this ends. What fascinates me far more is where the next path leads. Because if this journey has taught me anything, it is that the most valuable discoveries usually arise in places you never intended to reach.