Already in elementary school, I built my first website, mostly for fun, with a handful of users. It was something between a forum and what social networks later became, and it is where I learned the basics of programming.
I later attended a Spanish–Slovak bilingual high school.
Between 2016 and 2022, I studied politics, international relations, philosophy and phenomenology at Charles University in Prague, where I have lived since.
My master's thesis explored phenomenology and the structure of understanding, and how the best manipulators of ancient Rome, its orators, understood their own art and worked with the understanding of their audience: Quintilian, Cicero and the Rhetorica ad Herennium.
In 2025, I began restoring my grandparents’ house in Banská Bystrica, which they built with their own hands and where I spent my childhood.
In 2026, I created the Human filter, my list of blogs and articles written by real people, because the public web is full of AI-generated content. I also wrote a manifesto for a living internet.
My great-great-grandfather Juraj Lietava never returned from the Eastern Front of the First World War.
My great-grandfather Matej Lietava fought in the Second World War and took part in the Slovak National Uprising.
My great-grandmother's brother, General Andrej Sámel, supported political pluralism during the Prague Spring of 1968, openly rejected the invasion of the Warsaw Pact and was later persecuted by the regime. After the fall of socialism, he was among the first to speak out against Vladimír Mečiar, warning Václav Havel in March 1990 about the possible break-up of Czechoslovakia.
