Long Story Short

I'm Felix Meritis, born and raised in Amsterdam. I am a builder at heart who believes in honest, hard work. Humanity is a tiny candle surrounded by a vast darkness. Yet, while my brief light shines, I believe the autotelic life entails dedicating oneself to helping primarily others, making this world a little brighter.

On my own little pursuit of happiness, I realized early the cost of wearing my phone like a glove and surrendering to a digital phantom world. The best things in life aren't things. It hurts my heart to see lives increasingly co-opted by the technological narcotics of the 21st century. For what is set to be a total cost of 24 years at minimum, we increasingly amuse ourselves to death while we are all alone together, tuning out of life and away from authentic, meaningful human relationships. I haven't been able to stop thinking about this problem space for almost a decade, and that obsession drove me to teach myself to build. 8+ years of UI/UX design and nearly 2 years of development later, I founded Telos.

At Telos, we believe humane technology is the defining challenge of our generation. We are up against surveillance capitalism, the attention economy, and persuasive technology designed to exploit every human weakness— products that do not care in the slightest what we actually want, just what we'll watch.

Today is just a humble beginning, but at Telos, our mission is to accelerate the advent of a humane technology future.