About Marcell Fóti

Marcell originally worked in IT. He’s one of those old-school IT guys who still writes HTML code by hand, like it’s the 90s. However, in 2020, he left the tech world behind and was just about to embark on a grand world tour when the COVID lockdowns derailed his plans. So, he turned to Plan B: “traveling from home,” which meant binge-watching travel videos on YouTube for 8 hours a day.

In these videos, he stumbled upon the world of ancient mysteries and decided he was going to solve one himself. Armed with zero prior knowledge, he dove headfirst into the mystery of the scoop marks, initially buying into the dogma that granite is indestructible. His first attempt at cracking the code wasn’t chemical in nature but instead involved an ancient, Flintstones-style water-pressure machine—which, unsurprisingly, didn’t work at all.

So, turning to chemistry was merely the Plan B of his Plan B—but it worked. Over the past four years, he’s naturally learned chemistry, though there’s nothing extraordinary about that—anyone can learn it in four years. The real secret to his success is the “do something” approach, which stands in stark contrast to the more common “do nothing” method.