✨ Half-Slovenian, half-Dutch, half-assed surfer, fully into cold showers and out-of-the-box ideas.
🚴‍♂️ Bicycles over cars, audiobooks over paperbacks, leadership over waiting.
🧩 Jack of all trades, master of some. Driven to leave the world a bit better than I found it.

https://andrejstanic.myportfolio.com/projects

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I always feel alive when travelling. Meeting and hosting fellow travellers reminds the nomad in me to plan my next trip.

Also, I met my best friend through CouchSurfing, so this website (even though it's behind a paywall now) holds a special place in my heart.

DISCLAIMER: I’ve known CouchSurfing since it was run on karma, kindness, and references.
Paying to verify feels like selling out. I still believe in trust over transactions. If that’s discouraging, I totally get it.

Interests

- the rush of doing something for the first time
- I've always been drawn to outliers, weir curiosities and abnormalities
- patterns and psychology of just about all living beings
- futurism

• books
• design
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• origami
• podcasts
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• psychology
• cinema
• freedom
• freediving
• toastmasters
• cinematography
• audio books
• audiobooks
• strolling
• ux/ui

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
It ranges from Britney to Bach. I grew up on 80's bangers, Pink Floyd and CCR. These days it's mostly movie scores (Nicholas Britell and Hans Zimmer FTW), Boris Brejcha-style minimal techno, hard rock, synthwave, trip-hop and retro electro.

MOVIES
Wild Tales, Dead Poets Society, There Will be Blood, The Social Network, Moneyball, The Matrix, The Wire, A Man For All Seasons, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Unbreakable, The Big Lebowsky, The Fountain, Gattaca, Memento, Network, Wall-E, Back To The Future, Koyaanisquatsi, Into The Wild, Irreversible, Microcosmos, Root Of All Evil, Lektionen In Finsternis, Waste=Food

BOOKS
These days the wheels between my ears are spun by audio-books. My favourite novelist is Jonathan Franzen. My favourite non-fiction writer is Yuval Noah Harari. Other books that come to mind: Animal Farm, Alamut, The Pearl, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Outliers, Lonely Planet: On The Edge, Cradle To Cradle, Catcher In The Rhye, Watchmen, A Short History Of Nearly Everything, The Tipping Point, MAD magazine in its heyday.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
pretty much anything from George Carlin!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I galloped on a horse around the famous pyramids in Kairo, Egypt in flip-flops and without any prior horse-riding experience.

What I Can Share with Hosts

- Food in my fridge
- My free time (if we vibe on the same frequency)
- Basic freediving techniques
- Working with kids with disabilities

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Slovenia, Spain

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