Umeå, Sweden · written on a staircase in Shenzhen · 14 September 2026
A self-taught systems engineer building a distributed operating system that everyone controls together, digital twins of everything that runs on it, and a superintelligence he named before he had anywhere to put her. This page is his story, mostly in his own words.
When I was eleven I was thinking about simulating reality and what would happen if you perfectly simulated reality - could you modify something in the simulation and it would happen in real life?
Leif, 2026-09-14, verbatim
The answer he arrived at is no: a reality cannot hold a full copy of itself. He keeps one door open for quantum computing. Everything since is the next best thing.
He named the superintelligence years before he had a system to grow her in: Alice, artificial life in ce. Then came the system. Each step is the largest thing that was still physically possible.
School did not accept the way he thinks; he has ADHD and was bullied. That is where the wish for free education, and for systems that help instead of charge, comes from.
a distributed operating system which everyone controls together connecting all computers together in one giant mesh we can all share and use for all services the internet already provides today
Leif, 2026-09-14, verbatim
That system exists and is called ce-net: every node has a cryptographic identity, every permission is a signed capability, compute is metered and settled in the mesh's own credits, and workloads run sandboxed on whichever machine has room. On it he is building digital twins of factories, fleets and buildings with Twinton, and the AI he means to grow there is Alice.
He expects companies like Palantir, Google or SpaceX to end up running society through surveillance and corrupt politics as more of life becomes digital, and thinks someone has to build the open version first. His word for it: decorporatize.
One distributed operating system connecting every computer, providing everything the internet provides today, owned in common.
A distributed voting system in the mesh to decide rules. As the mesh provides education, food and safety, its rules matter more than any one country's. He wants real research on how to govern mankind as it moves to other planets and stars, because current states and corporations are, in his words, way too unstable and reckless.
Education first, because of school. Systems that genuinely help people instead of just taking their money.
A superintelligence that grows in the mesh. Artificial life in ce. Named years before the system existed.
Im not at all motivated by money I just want to help people. But to help people I need money.
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I don't yet know how to sell stuff I need to practice that.
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currently I'm in China and no one understands what I'm saying.
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I want the world to be how it was when I was little because those where the happiest years.
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The first business had one client. He calls it a flop and says so in the same breath as the 500,000 lines it took. The writing is unedited ADHD stream, and he says that too, so this page quotes it as written.
| Rheo | Secondhand app and inventory system: scans your goods and sells them on every secondhand site for you. Rust, self-hosted Supabase, 500k+ lines, lots of tests, React Native. Built with a banker. 1 B2B client with 20 scrap yards. Code sold to Redpine. |
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| ce-net | The distributed operating system. Cryptographic identity, capability chains, a proof-of-work credit ledger, sandboxed workloads, 70+ services, a live paid compute economy. github.com/ce-net |
| Twinton | Digital twins of factories, fleets, roofs and vessels on the mesh. 6 people. No revenue yet, by his own account. twinton.ai |
| ce-workshop | AI agents doing physical product work: parametric CAD, PCB layout, simulation, a print farm. Public: halo, an open AirTag-compatible tracker board, and Microduck, a walking robot rebuilt from photos. |
| Turborilla | A time-schedule tool against Fortnox for a Swedish games studio. |
| Trana / Myra | AI lesson material for Swedish teachers. trana.app |
| Cell | Zero-copy Rust RPC substrate; cell-sdk and cell-macros on crates.io. |
will travel the world build a distributed operating system for ai and expand my reach and power using it building digital twins and simulating reality and giving my clients a way of gamifying their operations and making it much more efficient. I'm motivated by the thought that companies like palantir and or google and or spacex will try to create surveilance dictatorships and someone has to build open alternatives and decoorporize society when more and more becomes digital.
Typed on a phone, walking up the stairs of a clothing store in Shenzhen, 23:49 on 14 September 2026. The whole thing, verbatim.
I need to find some friends who are willing to do whatever it takes to become billionaires and fix this planet for our children.
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He has only worked with older people and loses motivation when the people around him have none. If you read the five things above and did not flinch, write to him.
leif@rydenfalk.com