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Putte Kool – From Code to Basslines, aiming Ikigai

Some people spend their whole lives searching for purpose. I found mine in pieces — sports, tech, music. A puzzle with no clear picture, except for one thing: I was always building and diving deep into something — whether it was football skills, apps/systems, or even selling shoes (yeah, I was a shoe salesman once).

Like so many Finnish kids, I grew up watching Jari Litmanen and the ‘Finnish Flash’ Teemu Selänne, dreaming of stadium lights and last-minute goals. Football, hockey — those weren’t just games; they were the only path I saw. And for quite a while, I was on that path as a professional footballer. Contracts, pressure, the victories, the highs, the injuries, the lows. And until one day... it was gone.

So, I rewired. Swapped the ball as my "best friend" to a computer. Started a new every day life — one with code, design, and digital worlds. Suddenly, the thrill was back. Not in the football field, but in shipping software products, and bringing digital ideas to life.

And the music? It was always lurking. In the background, blending into late-night coding projects—experimenting with ways to take games, apps, and websites to another level with sound. Music was a restless energy that never left. It just never stepped out of my bat cave.

But that’s the thing about Ikigai — a Japanese philosophical term combining “iki” (alive) and “gai” (worth). Together, they define what gives your life meaning, purpose, and value. And for me? Music is that spark—the thing that makes me feel alive and lets me express myself in a whole new dimension.

I’ve played the game. I’ve built the systems. I’ve written the code and even sold the shoes. Now? It’s time to bash the Enter key even harder and turn it into a beat. Make some music and bring some swagger.

But what happens when geeks get too much swagger?

They might just crash the system — or, more likely, overestimate their dance moves, sing off-key like they invented a new scale, and end up in a full-blown cringe compilation. Time to find out. Because let’s be real — you’d rather be a bad artist than no artist at all, I guess.

Welcome to the world of Putte Kool, you sexy geek 😘 — a place where geeks don’t just write the software and the games. They also write the soundtrack.