Secure mission-aligned runway
Pursue employment, transition funding, and other mechanisms capable of removing the immediate financial bottleneck without derailing the AI-safety trajectory.
Personal strategy / AI safety
MAXIMIZEHEALTH, PLAY GAMES
Health is non-optional. Everything else is a game.
Enter the strategyObjective / 01
What I’m optimizing for
AI safety is the objective. Power is a means.
- Objective
- Maximize my useful contribution to solving AI-safety problems.
- Current bottleneck
- Build enough reliable financial runway that basic living costs stop consuming disproportionate attention and valuable career opportunities become easier to pursue.
- Longer horizon
- Build capital, capabilities, productivity, and influence—and deploy them rather than treating accumulation as the endpoint.
Current priorities / 02
Now
Last updated 18 August 2026
Current bottleneck
Financial runway is the constraint I am working to remove.
Stability means covering ordinary life without persistent financial attention while gaining room for learning, useful tools, productive working conditions, high-value travel, savings, and relocation when an unusually valuable opportunity warrants it.
Build evidence of execution
Turn projects, operations work, events, field-building, and other activity into visible evidence that I can reliably make useful things happen.
Grow AI-safety career capital
Pursue unusually valuable learning, research, fellowship, networking, and project opportunities when their expected long-term value justifies the time.
Run bounded experiments
Test projects and funding or revenue models cheaply before committing large amounts of time.
Resource model / 03
What I mean by power
Not status. Practical capacity to make useful things happen.
Capital
Money, runway, equipment, compute, workspace, mobility, and the ability to fund action.
Capabilities
Knowledge, skills, experience, judgment, credentials, and ability to execute.
Productivity
Usable time, energy, attention, health, tools, systems, and working conditions.
Influence
Relationships, reputation, trust, audience, organizational position, and ability to coordinate people and resources.
None is sufficient alone. The strategy asks which combination removes the current constraint and where that capacity can create the most AI-safety value.
Acquisition / 04
Five resource routes
A decision space—not a menu of equally promising options.
Near-term priority
AI-safety-aligned employment
Roles, contracting, or consulting that produce income while building relevant evidence, relationships, and judgment.
High-leverage bridge
Career-transition grants
Time-bounded funding that buys runway for a specific, strategically valuable move into higher-impact work.
Project-dependent
Funding for specific projects
Grants or sponsorship tied to a concrete AI-safety output, causal case, milestone, and budget.
Opportunity-dependent
Educational funding, stipends & support
Fellowships, internships, residencies, scholarships, and public or student support that also build career capital.
Experimental
Project revenue & donations
Resources generated by useful projects, services, media, events, prizes, sponsorship, donations, or entrepreneurship.
The current emphasis is aligned employment and transition funding. Other routes become more attractive when a concrete project, program, or experiment justifies them.
Projects / 05
Current work
Present activity—not a claim of established success.
Safe AI Sweden
Building and testing ways to strengthen local capacity around safe and democratically governed AI in Sweden.
AI-safety field-building
Community-building, ecosystem mapping, networking, and experiments intended to make AI-safety work easier to enter and coordinate.
Events & convenings
Exploring how events and structured convenings can connect people, surface bottlenecks, and generate useful collaborations.
AI-safety media
Considering media and content formats that could improve communication, field-building, or resource generation without becoming a large distraction.
Collaboration / 06
Where outside leverage would help
Concrete opportunities and specific connections are especially useful.
Mission-aligned roles
Especially generalist, operations, project, community, communications, and similar high-agency work.
Career-transition funding or programs
Opportunities that buy runway while increasing expected future AI-safety contribution.
Project collaborators or funders
Particularly for concrete field-building or coordination experiments.
Useful introductions
People or organizations where there is a specific reason we should talk.
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Clarification / 07
Health, Games, and this strategy
The Health / Games framing belongs to the broader, still-evolving Eshkere idea. Eshkere Strategy is the current name for my personal strategy and operating system. It is not an investment fund, a conventional company, or an established institution.