🚬 Smoking on the flight
A short rant about flying companies who don't understand the passengers' psychology.
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A short rant about flying companies who don't understand the passengers' psychology.
Почему ChatGPT не опасен для творчества? Почему чёрный квадрат Малевича — это искусство?
Why the modern art is art? Why generative AI doesn't harm art even though harms artists?
I not only have victories, but hard days as well. December 14 became such a day for me — and that's why it is normal.
A short explanation why this tense perfectly describes our feeling of uncertainty and regret.
There’s a growing trend toward public sexual openness — and while I fully support consent and adult freedom, something about this new performative sexuality feels… adolescent. So let me finally articulate why threads like “How I choose nipple clamps” make me roll my eyes.
Swearing in a planned text is almost always a sign of weakness — not power. In Russian especially, profanity is a rare, dangerous jewel. And the more often an author uses it, the cheaper it becomes.
After those two stories, I’m left with two broader insights — about responsibility, freedom, conflict, and why aggression almost never makes sense.
This is the promised second part — a story not about conflict, but about reclaiming control over a trauma I carried for years. To do it, I had to temporarily adopt a worldview with a very wild moral compass — not because I believe it, but because it helped me finally forgive what once terrified me.
I’ve started documenting my small “daily victories” — not because they’re heroic, but because they show what self-trust and self-love can grow into. Here’s one that happened on a morning flight to Prague, and why what looked like a conflict… wasn’t one at all.
I know many senior candidates hate take-home assignments — but I genuinely love them. Not because they’re “fair” or “efficient,” but because they reveal far more about a role, a team, and a company than any interview ever could.
Every ancient culture has a story about a great flood. Bible, Sumer, India, China, the Nordics — everyone remembers the world drowning once. Why?
Why did humans even invent the idea of burying the dead? Hygiene? Fear? Respect?
If naming a fear makes it smaller, then maybe this isn’t just psychology — maybe it’s a universal human myth.
Why do dragons appear in every culture on Earth?
I believe it is not about shortening of attention span — it's about economy.
I recently learned what is BATNA — and want to explain it to you as well.
Keep going — that's probably the most powerful idea that I've ever heard.
Do you think that Duolingo's gamification is more ethical than your banking app? I doubt so and here is why.
A small Sunday text about amazing integrations
and how to fell like you have one, even if you don't
My main secret of staying sane after all AI suggestions
Why Uncle Ben wasn't entirely correct
A nice photo which sums up the story of my personal development in a couple of years.
While legal status is very important in most of cases and quite often legal = ethical, I suggest thinking if it is always the case.
If you are not Amazon or Google, it is very likely that you can replace AI with protein-based neuron network.
Should your hobby be effective? Are some hobbies better than others because they teach you something? I don't think so and here is why.
Willpower is a limited resource — so how would you use it wise like a wisard?
The continuation of the previous post.
Why you actually shouldn't care about job market — but focus on what you offer.
How to grow up and really separate parents' issues from yourselves
The bloggers are fighting for your attribution by providing you unique cringy discounts — extra 1% on top of existing 20%. What's next?
Does ChatGPT really separate people and cause them not to love each other?
Why denials are not "no for you", but "no for now".
The art of taking simple steps, getting things done, and being proud of them — even when the bigger goal isn’t yet achieved.
Why you'd better fail
Why you can't solve historical injustices with the modern world rules.
A little metaphor from nature about bears and elephants.
Why do employers and fast-food chains do charity?
How to use the ChatGPT effectively and not be a duchebag who ignores real humans.
A little text about why it's important to be in present, not in future.
Turning your requests into offers charges you with the great power. So let's bring it down how I am becoming a Spider Man.
Why the changes in your life can only be the result of your efforts
The difference between knowledgs, skill and intuition — and why you need to develop the latest.
A lot of psychologists tell you that you need to love yourself. But how to do it if something in yourself is giving you pain? How to love this part of your brain? I think I have an example.
How staying a perfectionist can stop you from results
A continuation of the post why it is important to verify information and how you can check if your beliefs are in line with your own standards.
Why government is not effective in controling anything
Why ability to verify information and simplify matters in modern world and why it actually is not so modern.
Небольшой рассказ о городе, в котором вы наверняка не побываете.
I bet you are not going to visit this city — so give it a little read.
Why attempt to make communication "polite" and "evenly distributed" ruins the experience of breaking the bread with strangers.
What is much more fearful than Roco's Basilisk for me?
How to defeat the famous Roco's Basilisk?
Oh, I used the click bait heading for a reason and I'm not gonna tell you in the description what it is about!
Some of the norms we accept are not humane at all. Though not following them may also not be humane.
Why your dreams don't define you — but what you pay for them does.
Russian passport on Moldovan border and my little adventures.
Comparing yourself to locals is unfair; compare yourself to who you’d be if you never left.
Why doing things with AI can actually teach you much more than you could in school or at uny.
What's common between the start of opioid epidemic in the USA and the trend not to accept any criticism?
Evolution of vibe coding from my (non coder) perspective in the past 2 years
Two simple lessons I learned from keeping a to-do notebook: rest is part of the plan, and procrastination hates clarity.
When making some KPIs worse actually improves the product: how ARPU/ARPPU/PU% interplay.
Notes after Doronichev’s talk: why the future is now.
How Russian govenrment drew the line between its friends and enemies and how it backlashes them.
What hidden colored bricks in LEGO teach about UX readability and guiding attention.
How to read percentile charts in product analytics, with practical takeaways.
The same guide to reading percentile charts, in Russian.
Meta’s unskippable ad breaks in Reels: how incentives create bad UX and what it signals.
Interpreting a loaded quote through orthogonal vs opposing attributes — and why context matters.
Fun with prime numbers: encoding feature sets so inclusion checks become simple divisions.
Two onboarding experiences that show the gap between strong and weak management.
A metaphor about depression as a monster that feeds on attention — and how I recognized it.
On how sincere compliments and positive loops drive retention better than punishment.
A devlog about the runner I keep rebuilding: what I break, what I learn, and why I still enjoy it.
Eight goal‑free days between jobs and how doing 'nothing' restored energy and curiosity.
Notes from turning 33: what I let go of, what I keep, and why it makes life easier.
Two small stories about fear and why exposure therapy works when you apply it to your own life.
A short essay on how turning a raw feeling into a piece of art requires holding it in focus long enough to shape it.
If AI ends up doing everything, how will humans still earn money? There are two answers — one optimistic (I prefer this one) and one… less so. In both cases, the key currencies of the future aren’t skills or knowledge, but engagement and vulnerability.