I don't think a good engineer is a one-dimensional one. Here's what fills the rest of my week.
I've organised a weekly pesäpallo group in Helsinki for three consecutive summers, getting 16–30 people to show up regularly. I created it so I'd have a standing reason to see my friends more regularly.
Part of the organising team behind Helsinki's founders' run club, which I helped grow from 5 to 20 weekly runners over a winter. Running is also just how I think — most of my best product ideas show up mid-run.
I spent a year pretending not to speak English to force myself to actual Finnish fluency, after a decade of avoiding it. That experience is what led me to start a non-profit project interviewing other people who'd learned Finnish to a high level, to find out what worked for them too.
A non-profit podcast for immigrants learning Finnish, born out of that same language obsession — interviews with people who reached fluency, filterable by life situation. Concept, interviews, editing, and distribution, solo.
Learned property renovation by offering to renovate other people's apartments for free in exchange for being taught the trade — ran three projects at once while working full time. Also previously ran an Airbnb to Superhost status.