The problem with public health care is not only underfunding, poor oversight, or the absence of yet another audit. The problem is a model in which society pays, doctors and facilities increasingly operate as market actors, and the patient is left in the role of a petitioner who can, at most, file a complaint. Before we point to the guilty, however, it is worth seeing something less theatrical: this system is blind. It does not add up who it pays and what it pays for, so it cannot distinguish honesty from the appearance of honesty. Perhaps it is time to democratize it.
Paweł is the founder of random:seed – a site that for years served as his personal blog and a place to publish materials about programming in Clojure and using the Git version control system.
Today, random:seed also preserves selected materials from the now-defunct BAD[SECTOR].PL site, which was devoted to information security.
It is an independent, non-commercial site created by Paweł, whose purpose remains to share knowledge and experience with people who value clarity, agency, and honest craftsmanship.
Beyond his work in technology, Paweł is at home writing, speaking in public, and solving technical problems.
He is also the originator of Orbiplex and one of its co-founders. He works on the project’s constitutional foundations and architecture.
Since 1997, he has been involved in free software projects, including PLD Linux and GNU, and between 2002 and 2015 he was involved in digital forensics and IT security projects.
Since 2016, he has worked professionally in eDiscovery (a branch of digital forensics), focusing on automating repetitive processes and operating systems that process electronic evidence so that it remains reliable and useful and can be communicated clearly to different audiences. In eDiscovery, he emphasizes verifiability, honest description, and responsibility for consequences – so that facts can be understood regardless of role, language, or context.
He is a co-founder of SpeakLeash (Spichlerz) and coined the project’s name. SpeakLeash is a Polish community initiative building language resources and large language models (LLMs), including the Bielik family.
In his work and projects, he combines different perspectives: on the one hand, he emphasizes verifiability, standardization, contracts, and mechanisms; on the other – the quality of experience, the meaning of context, and precision of description. He favors a “see how it works” approach over declarative certainty.
In his essay on AI and consciousness, he stresses the importance of “perspective engineering” – moving beyond implementation alone toward designing intentions, quality criteria, and responsibility for consequences. In the field of AI, he favors open and enactive approaches because they increase auditability, knowledge sharing, resilience, and the technological agnosticism of the ecosystem.
Paweł grew up in the Free Software community – a modern manifestation of the so-called gift culture, where social standing depends on voluntary contributions to the community rather than on possessions or dominance over others.
Beyond free software, he is drawn to values found in craft cultures, the culture of experimentation, and contemporary participatory communities organized around pragmatic contemplative paths based on direct insight (e.g., AtR), while retaining a rational, engineering filter.
He is a communitarian – he believes that micro-communities and voluntary exchange within them can provide a sound implementation of economic and cultural freedom. He also considers the freedom to share knowledge and the freedom of access to information essential. In practice, he is anti-authoritarian – he values responsibility and principled conduct, but does not recognize authority unsupported by the needs of all parties involved. He builds his work and relationships at the intersection of three axes: cultural, introspective, and engineering. Each matters to him: culture expands imagination and language, introspection orders intentions and helps him engage with fundamental questions, and engineering makes it possible to turn what he wants to express into action. If this kind of balance resonates with you, you will probably find your language here.
One of his most important practices is translating between different vocabularies for describing the world. He is interested not so much in one narrative prevailing as in a synthesis that can be tested in practice: from intention, through contract, to a functioning result. This allows him to discuss meaning and immediately translate it into a structure of work, technical decisions, and concrete tools.
The materials published here are primarily about programming, though occasionally a text devoted to another subject appears, such as IT security.
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