Louis Morgner

who i am
louis morgner is a multi-disciplinary maker, entrepreneur, and writer working at the intersection of human unfolding and artificial intelligence.
things about me
- founder & ceo @ opencompany (2026 - now)
- founder @ acta (2025 - now)
- producing & releasing music as ozo
- co-founder & board @ jamie ai (2019 - now)
- research on applying hdbscan to speaker diarization accuracy (2022)
- tutored some linear programming
- bsc from maastricht university, exchange at uc irvine (2019 - 2022)
- grew up in cologne, studied in maastricht, now living in berlin/san francisco
find me on youtube, instagram, x, linkedin.
things i believe in
- humans live their happiest and most useful life when they find their life's work and go all in
- that's been the story of my life. i was fortunate to get into robots and computers when i was 12
- you find this by acting on intuition and curiosity, and making space for introspection
- you need to let go of your domestication and start to figure out who you truly are
- now is the best time to build startups and improve human life
- building for yourself is the best strategy to follow
- stop replicating side effects from people you admire, start leaning into real substance
- stop listening to people who reduce company building to a purely monetary pursuit, start listening to people who view company building as a means of self-expression and feeling alive
- if it feels like play, it is a proxy for your life's work
- strong self-images are the biggest limit to your life. to be free, you need to detach from it and embrace presence (which is unpredictable)
- people prefer the certainty of misery over the misery of uncertainty
things i want to do
- build the school i wish i had when i was young (acta school of life) and allow young people to go all in on their life's work
- fix the potential gap of ai and the economic gains we have today (opencompany)
- just be myself, fuck all the masks, and make every day the best day of my life
what i write
prompting is knowledge
Apr 5, 2026what i hate about the european startup ecosystem
Feb 24, 2026No Formula
Feb 20, 2026In The Arena
Feb 19, 2026Contribution First, Capture Second
Feb 18, 2026Protecting the Light
Feb 3, 2026Figuring shit out
Jan 30, 2026Getting conscious
Jan 29, 2026Who's in charge?
Jan 28, 2026The Problem With Higher Education
Jan 27, 2026Exposing Yourself To Reality
Jan 22, 2026Potential Is An Insult
Jan 17, 2026I am not a content creator
Dec 12, 2025Solving the Puzzle
Dec 11, 2025Remove Judgment From Your Work
Dec 9, 2025The Vision Reality Gap
Dec 8, 2025Question Your Desires
Nov 25, 2025Get Dopamine From Creation
Nov 20, 2025The Costliest Mistake When Building
Nov 14, 2025Figuring Out What You Should Have Been Making
Nov 13, 2025Letters to a Young Maker
Nov 12, 202510 Principles for Finding Product–Market Fit
Oct 19, 2025Life Is Like A Book
Oct 17, 2025My Expectations
Oct 9, 2025Doing Things In Order
Oct 8, 2025Pursuit of Truth
Sep 25, 2025Dopamine from Creation
Sep 8, 2025The Hierarchy of Work
Sep 5, 2025Not What, But How
Sep 4, 2025Stop Avoiding What Is In Front Of You
Sep 3, 2025Don't Delegate Your Thinking
Sep 1, 2025Who You Are
Aug 29, 2025Clarity Unlocks Performance
Aug 28, 2025Finding a Business Model
Aug 27, 2025The Best Time To Be Alive
Aug 26, 2025How to Write a Weekly Update That Actually Moves the Business
Aug 25, 2025Stop The Suffering
Aug 22, 2025Courage to Act
Aug 21, 2025Life Works in Curves
Aug 14, 2025How To Do Remarkable Work
Aug 13, 2025Back to the Essence
Aug 12, 2025The Simplicity Reset
Aug 7, 2025Implications of Agentic AI
Aug 6, 2025The Reality Check You Need
Aug 5, 2025Stop Chasing The By-product
Jul 28, 2025Take It Easy
Jul 22, 2025How to Make Life Decisions
Jul 17, 2025Unfreeness Is Your Choice
Jul 14, 2025Creating From a Place of Abundance
Jul 11, 2025Stop Trying So Hard
Jul 9, 2025Build Obvious Ideas
Jul 8, 2025On Being Enough
Jul 7, 2025Why You Should Be Uncomfortable
Jul 4, 2025What The First Weeks Of Building A Startup Should Look Like
Jul 3, 2025On Human Connection
Jun 30, 2025The Only Thing
Jun 26, 2025AI Is Your Co-founder
Jun 25, 2025Doing Less > Doing More
Jun 24, 2025Leaning Into Resistance
Jun 13, 2025The Source
Jun 4, 2025Is Our Purpose to Experience?
Jun 2, 2025On Doing The Work
May 28, 2025On Freedom
May 22, 2025On Uncertainty
May 21, 2025On Chaos
May 20, 2025The Curse of Comfort
May 15, 2025Make Every Day Count
Apr 25, 202510x Moves
Apr 17, 2025Launching Acta
Apr 15, 2025High-agency People
Apr 11, 2025I Feel You Feeling Me
Apr 9, 2025Generosity
Apr 7, 2025My Plan For Acta
Mar 27, 2025Hours Are Not Created Equal
Mar 26, 2025Quantity without improvement doesn't work
Mar 25, 2025Acta Vision Contemplation
Mar 24, 2025What Do People Want to Watch?
Mar 21, 2025Love For Detail
Mar 19, 2025Do It Daily
Mar 18, 2025Solve Problems When They Emerge
Mar 17, 2025Playing To Win
Mar 10, 2025The Day Things Got Easy
Mar 7, 2025Curve of Life
Mar 5, 2025Great Product Design
Mar 3, 2025Radical Truth
Feb 28, 2025Simplicity & Clarity
Feb 24, 2025Glimpse Of Magic
Feb 20, 2025Clarity In Vision Correlates With Achievement
Feb 17, 2025The Mindset of Practice
Feb 16, 2025Real Learning Requires Action
Feb 13, 2025On Devotion
Feb 12, 2025Make It Easy
Feb 7, 2025Negativity Takes Energy
Feb 6, 2025All Thoughts Are Fear
Feb 5, 2025Constraint-Based Thinking
Feb 4, 2025The Art of Noticing
Feb 3, 2025Teleology
Jan 29, 2025The World Is Always Speaking to You
Jan 28, 2025Friction & Value
Jan 27, 2025On Filling Your Present Place
Jan 24, 2025Cause-Effect Relationships
Jan 23, 2025Make It Simple
Jan 22, 2025Dreamlining
Jan 21, 2025How To Know When To Make A Decision
Jan 20, 2025Creative Chaos
Jan 17, 2025How To Build Software
Jan 16, 2025Leading With The Work
Jan 15, 2025Obsession Beats Discipline
Jan 14, 2025Being On The Hook
Jan 13, 2025Incremental Progression > Perfection
Jan 10, 2025What The World Needs
Jan 9, 2025Realm of Possibility
Jan 8, 2025Enemies of Execution
Jan 7, 2025Exposure
Jan 6, 2025The Best People
Jan 3, 2025Conquering Fear
Jan 2, 2025Life Is A Game
Dec 20, 2024Truth Has Predictive Power
Dec 18, 2024The Passion Advantage
Dec 16, 2024Evolutionary Impulses
Dec 8, 2024On Real Confidence
Dec 3, 2024The Only Way To Solve A Problem
Nov 29, 2024Conscious Journaling
Nov 20, 2024Dozen Of No's
Nov 19, 2024Don't Make Assumptions
Nov 18, 202410x vs 10%
Nov 15, 2024Fear = Hope
Nov 14, 2024Mastering The Duality of Good Work
Nov 13, 2024Confidence Inspires
Nov 12, 2024Effortless Action
Nov 11, 2024Ignoring Noise
Oct 31, 2024Surface Area for Serendipity
Oct 28, 2024Vision ∨ Action
Oct 24, 2024Substance
Oct 23, 2024Speaking Your Truth
Oct 21, 2024Getting Going
Oct 18, 2024How I Code
Oct 17, 2024Brands
Oct 16, 2024The Pursuit Of Better
Oct 15, 2024Waves
Oct 14, 2024Quality Of Time
Oct 4, 2024Thinking About What To Work On
Oct 2, 2024How To Gain Clarity
Oct 1, 2024Value Of Precise Language
Sep 25, 2024Falling In Love With A Problem
Sep 24, 2024Going Deeper
Sep 20, 2024Clarity Drives Performance
Sep 19, 2024On Customer Centricity
Sep 18, 2024Naivety Is A Strength
Sep 16, 2024Certainty Is An Illusion
Sep 13, 2024Limit of Achievements
Sep 12, 2024Slow Decisions
Sep 11, 2024Pitching Funding Rounds
Sep 10, 2024Changing Your Identity
Sep 9, 2024Solving Speaker Diarization
Sep 3, 2024Learning Rate
Sep 2, 2024Leaders & Followers
Aug 30, 2024Copying What Works
Aug 29, 2024Limitations of the Thinking Mind
Aug 28, 2024Creative Magic
Aug 27, 2024Chase Discomfort
Aug 26, 2024Output Of A Perfectionist
Aug 22, 2024Everything Is Created By Thought
Aug 21, 2024Portfolio Theory For Creatives
Aug 20, 2024Every Day Is A New Beginning
Aug 19, 2024The Less It Is, The Stronger
Aug 15, 2024Creative vs. Competitive Mindset
Aug 14, 2024Work You Are Avoiding
Aug 13, 2024Every Day Is Day One
Aug 12, 2024Staying on Track
Aug 9, 2024State of LLMs
Aug 8, 2024Disproving Survivorship Bias
Aug 7, 2024Correlation of Time & Value
Aug 6, 2024Power of Environment
Aug 5, 2024Consciousness
Aug 1, 2024Availability of Change
Jul 31, 2024Depth Is The Ultimate Lever
Jul 30, 2024Prisoner of Opinions
Jul 22, 2024The Force of Evolution
Jul 19, 2024Doubling Down on Strengths
Jul 18, 2024Mistunderstood Stoicism
Jul 16, 2024Understanding Problems First
Jul 15, 2024Daily Purpose Alignment
Jul 12, 2024The Presence Paradigm: How to Make Good Decisions In Startups
Jul 11, 2024Numbers Are Only a Proxy
Jul 10, 2024Where Ideas Come From
Jul 9, 2024All Suffering is Self-inflicted
Jul 5, 2024Feeling It
Jul 4, 2024Pseudo Work
Jul 3, 2024Permission
Jul 2, 2024Shipping The Work
Jul 1, 2024Startups Are Rooted In Existing Behavior
Jun 27, 2024Useful Manifestations
Jun 26, 2024Certainty of Misery
Jun 25, 2024Why Not Now?
Jun 21, 2024Walks
Jun 20, 2024Focus on What, not Who
Jun 19, 2024Focus
Jun 18, 2024Self Awareness & Freedom
Jun 17, 2024Importance Dimensions for Next-Generation Language Models
Jun 14, 2024Resilience > Confidence
Jun 13, 2024Use Simple Language
Jun 12, 2024My Meeting Routine
Jun 11, 2024Becoming Yourself
Jun 10, 2024Contemplate Your Vision
Jun 7, 2024Two Halves of Life
Jun 6, 2024You're Not In Charge
Jun 5, 2024Desires
May 30, 2024Detachment From Past
May 29, 2024Life Is About Fulfilling Your Purpose
May 28, 2024Recipe For Greatness
May 27, 2024Relate, Translate, Surprise
May 24, 2024Our Future is Passions, Not Jobs
May 23, 2024Seeking More
May 22, 2024Differentiated Beliefs
May 21, 2024Making Incredible Things
May 20, 2024Clarity in Vision
May 17, 2024Lead With Questions, Not Answers
May 10, 2024Rejection
May 9, 2024Beating The Ego
May 7, 2024Did We Lose A Sense Of Self?
May 2, 2024Commitment = Exposure
Oct 9, 2023Atelic Activities
Nov 3, 2022Finding > Convincing
Oct 27, 2022The Thief of Joy
Sep 3, 2022