Data Sovereignty
I want everyone to own their data. The right to a fully encrypted personal storage should be non-negotiable. I strongly believe in the power of knowledge graphs — and especially the Semantic Web.
“How can we make the structures through which humans coordinate their lives explicit, understandable, interoperable, and changeable, without requiring everyone to agree on one universal representation of reality?”
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research.nalenz.orgHi, I'm Julian, 26 years old. I started programming when I was 9, studied computer science at TU Munich and KTH Stockholm, co-founded the successful German FinTech Divizend at 19 and then became enchanted with the Burning Man-inspired culture of The Borderland at 22, Europe's largest burn, becoming a member on its board, its treasurer and IT admin. I saw that the way how we design and run software directly influences the health of the people. I stand for more trust, more sovereignty, more decentralization, more art, more effective resource use, more democracy, a more holistic understanding of wealth, less AI and less accumulation of primitive forms of capital like money and property. I already saw so much beauty in the world, and I want to empower everyone to make full use of all the stunning possibilities we have in the world. Bureaucracy too often stands in the way. Personally, I do all my software work only because I want to live in nature and never have to work on a desk or in front of a screen again.
I consider myself a polymath too, but the way how I intend to integrate all of my different interests is to create universal administrative software. My intention is: "everyone should become able to found and operate anything", no matter if they are self-employed or want to create an association or company, no matter how local or international, no matter what they offer or produce. With that, instead of getting lost in realizing more specific skills (all of which would require administrative structures later to be brought into reality anyway, both internally and externally, both to interface with other people and businesses and with governments), I work on the practical open source operational meta-layer first, which is going to be the gateway for me and everyone else in the world to eventually not just learn about but actually act out and earn money with a very diverse set of skills, so that both me and everyone else can realize their full potential in regards to production of good and services without needing to worry about bureaucracy and business administration.
I want everyone to own their data. The right to a fully encrypted personal storage should be non-negotiable. I strongly believe in the power of knowledge graphs — and especially the Semantic Web.
I want to build systems that solve “bureaucracy anxiety” — the conditioned fear of paperwork some people carry. I believe that excessive bureaucracy is a form of violence, mainly used to exclude certain people from doing certain things. Based on the personal knowledge graph, I want to create the “Wikipedia of forms” — a path through which any form in the world can be filled.
Borderland already does it at a scale of almost 5,500 people every year: a few months before the event, people get access to a web platform where they can submit all their ideas — including budget planning. About half of the total budget covers fixed costs like electricity and water (the “realities”), but the other half flows into these “dreams”. In the second step, people vote with the money they already paid for their tickets anyway. It's like a mini-crowdfunding within the organization — no new money comes in, and people can give €5 to one project, €10 to another, or however they please. Budgetary decision-making is fully decentralized; apart from rough guidelines, not even the board has any say in what comes to the event. I want this model of participatory budgeting to become accessible to any organization.
I often notice how my mind and body rebel against all this hyper-symbolic “tech, finance and bureaucracy” stuff. Everything I do in tech is a means to an end, as I really long for the way of life of my ancestors: being a farmer.
A company that rebuilds enterprise software on algebraic specifications: the compliance plumbing every enterprise application needs gets written once, as open-source formal specifications with generated, verified code, while the domain logic on top stays proprietary. Looking for one or two technical co-founders.
A polemical manifesto, in fourteen languages, against the supremacy of the mind: words as the instrument of control, education as body-hostile indoctrination, and the escape route through cultivating and honouring the feeling of the body.
One large, zoomable terrain of everything I post on X, placed automatically by topic around my core research question and graded by how directly each post speaks to it. New posts land on the map daily.
Find the German foundations most likely to fund your non-profit project: semantic matching of your project description against ~30,000 registered foundation purposes.
A manifesto for the free human. They say: that's just how people are. We say: that's how they were made. Against quiet paternalism, for self-authorship, and for taking the will of a child exactly as seriously as the will of an adult.
A project-management and standardization playbook for developing a new open, HTTP-based standard that lets independently operated community systems exchange resources: from problem discovery, governance and a founding charter through conformance testing, security review and a roadmap to version 1.0.
An interoperable protocol and data exchange standard for Certified Financial Intermediaries (CFIs) to exchange data and events for indirect reporting under MiKaDiv and FASTER. Vendor-independent, based on the ECB's BIRD, with end-to-end encryption.
A community-owned, open-source marketplace concept where platform fees from buying and selling goods are redistributed to fund local education, culture, and shared public spaces instead of private profit.
Project Theseus is a speculative company concept built around making ultra-repairable products and open-sourcing them from day one, with the radical goal of rendering itself obsolete by making longevity and repairability the boring default.
A self-organizing, fully offline social framework that prioritizes autonomy, self-reliance, and human connection without digital infrastructure.
A manifesto for implementing participatory budgeting at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
A space for demisexual and sapiosexual visionaries seeking depth, devotion, and epic synergy—clarity without co-dependence.
A global systemic art and design competition fostering the regenerative economy through Solarpunk principles, distributed via participatory budgeting.
A multilingual library and publishing house dedicated to giving access to and translating transformative works that challenge conventional thinking, bridging philosophical wisdom across languages and cultures.
A political party implementing direct democratic control over tax allocation, enabling citizens to decide precisely how their tax contributions are used.
Two essays arguing that AI alignment is an economic problem: whoever controls the money AI earns holds the power, so we should build the AI-run economy first, open source and with its profits distributed democratically.
A philosophical framework exploring the relationship between human and machine cognition while reimagining governance systems beyond traditional power structures.
A participatory financial ecosystem combining community building, transparent decision-making, and digital tools to foster global financial health.
A manifesto-style artwork titled #SchlussMitOhnmacht (“End the Powerlessness”) that calls on readers to demand constructive journalism, transforming passive media consumption into active civic engagement and collective empowerment.
A simple platform which makes setting up a participatory budgeting process as easy as never before. Work in progress.
The operating system for the Burning Man culture. Served as the membership platform for the Swedish burn "The Borderland" in 2025 and 2026, with >4000 members annually. It has since been superseded by an even better next generation of the platform, developed by another member of the community.
A global, open-source platform that democratizes philanthropy by intelligently connecting individuals and organizations with funding, legal guidance, and community support—making it possible for anyone, anywhere, to realize their vision for the common good.
A digital encyclopedia functioning as an interconnection forum for movements, communities, and ideas working toward holistic regenerative transformation.
The foundation manifesto and living document of Aikyaprema as a culture, philosophy, and way of life. This project articulates how unity-centered thinking can transform personal and collective existence.
My holding company for my real-life entrepreneurial activities.
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