My life has been centred around two passions.

For 18 years, I worked as an engineer and researcher, developing new technology to process satellite imagery. Eleven of those years were spent as the co-founder and CTO of 3vGeomatics, where we continuously improved the quality and speed of information delivered to our clients. Today, 3vG's products for monitoring ground movement from space are the best in the world.

Alongside this technical career, I quietly pursued a deeper understanding of my own awareness. At 28, I had my first glimpse of what could be called "inner peace". I had just finished sprinting through my neighbourhood when, suddenly, my usually busy mind fell silent. There was neither any thought nor the urge to think. I saw my surroundings with such clarity and freshness that it stopped me in my tracks. The deepest, kindest, most benevolent peace welled up from within and seemed to fill everything near and far. Although fleeting, this experience became the catalyst for my second passion: the pursuit and understanding of inner peace.

I was fortunate to have tasted this peace before leaving my previous job to join 3vG. I had no inkling of the challenges ahead. I made no money in the first year, yet I felt calm amidst the financial uncertainty. Once we started winning projects, we rented a small office and hired our first employees. Sitting at my computer from morning to night, I watched the offices get bigger and bigger, filled with people from different technical backgrounds, executing projects more ambitious than I had ever imagined.

But hand in hand, the stresses also multiplied. The only constant was inner peace. It gave me a stable, silent place from which to relate to colleagues and clients, navigate interpersonal issues, and resolve complex technical challenges with deadlines looming.

Over 11 years, 3vG grew from two founders with one computer to 50 staff members delivering products in 40 countries. During that same time, inner peace evolved from an occasional visitor into a reliable companion. At first, I felt it mostly in exercise, nature, or solitude. Eventually, it seeped into interviews, technical discussions, and boardroom presentations.

Of course, I still had to think critically, make hard decisions, and understand different personalities to move the company forward. But inner peace served as an invaluable calming presence amidst the thinking, debating, experimenting, and failing. It also began to dissolve my ego – that internal force that always felt tense, self-promoting, and resistant to change. I saw clearly that ego and peace couldn't coexist, and I repeatedly chose peace, severing my ego from my actions again and again.

At 38, ten years after that first glimpse, inner peace was still intermittent. I felt it every day, but it would come and go. Then, three major events went wrong in my life in quick succession. The emotional turmoil that followed was so intense I felt like I was crumbling. My chest grew heavy with grief, and the smallest triggers caused my heart to race. For six months, I broke down in tears almost every day.

And yet – every time I cried, inner peace was right there to soothe me. Peace and pain became my companions. What an odd pairing! My only contribution was to trust the process and let it happen. I gave up all resistance. Eventually, the tears subsided and inner peace remained. It became my baseline state. It felt like home.

My perspective inverted. Previously, I lived in the world of thoughts and things, trying to get back to peace. Now, I lived in peace – and was only occasionally pulled from it by the world.

The engineer in me couldn't help but investigate. I began observing how inner peace revealed itself across daily life: waking up, getting ready, walking, running, biking, driving, cooking, eating, listening, talking, working, working out, rock climbing, basketball, pickleball, dancing, reading, relaxing, and going to bed. To this day, I continue to explore how peace shows itself in everything I do.

I'm creating this website – and its accompanying social media channels – to share what I've learned: what inner peace is, why it gets blocked, how to unblock it, and how to live in it. I believe every human being deserves the opportunity to rediscover the peace that is already within them.

Inner peace is not something I created. It is an aspect of your own attention that gets forgotten in the busyness of life. I feel called to share because I found this peace not in retreat, but during the busiest decade of my life – while building a high-tech startup, often working 60+ hours a week.

It didn't just comfort me – it reshaped me. Inner peace gradually infused my life, eroded my ego, deepened my insight, and improved my relationships when I needed it most. I want others to experience this same transformation: to live and act from peace, no matter their life circumstances.

Even one person acting from peace can make a difference. I want to see a world where the vast majority of people live this way.