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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
Earlier I wrote that Improvy OÜ was accepted into the Fullyst Alpha program. I’m really happy about it, and although Web Summit is only in November, the team is already preparing for the event. Web Su…
A few words about immigration for my small audience. I left Russia in March 2021, so at this point I have spent 3.5 years living in other countries. When I brush up against contemporary Russian cultur…
I saw this image on Reddit and I have to say something about the EU. As a guy living in the EU now, I am struggling with a lot of limitations, especially around AI. For example, I pay for ChatGPT, but…
I just realized that I can’t really put into words feelings about things that happened more than a week ago. Or, to be honest, I can, but only with my voice, not in text. So in my head, only these wor…
Another unpopular opinion. Over the last few months a strange consensus has taken shape across art communities worldwide: AI steals our paintings and will steal our jobs. This position is not unique t…
My another unpopular opinion. Last month there was a global consensus in artist communities: AI is 'stealing' our artworks and will steal our jobs. This view is not unique to artists, but they are one…
Taxes. An unpopular opinion. I think this post might be controversial because I have an unpopular view on taxes in today’s world. Let me briefly explain my position. First, I am convinced that a progr…
Second, the social tax should be abolished. The government is simply unable to provide adequate social security services. Take Mike's example again: in Germany he has to pay about €16,289 in social se…
To be honest, last Friday I decided to write a new post here every Friday to bring some order to these chaotic days. So, here it is. This week was all about order and dealing with entropy in the futur…
I could write about my new position as Head of Infrastructure, but instead… Well, I will write about it. Just over two weeks ago, I got promoted and now I am the Head of Infrastructure, managing a lar…
A curious thing I noticed when I started actively promoting @FullystBot directly to Telegram chats (I DM the admins of chats I personally read): Many of them already use a bot whose entire functionali…
The full spectrum of my emotions after reading that complaint: 🚬 😔 🏥 🤷♀️
Today is a really exciting day for me, because I am about to have a conversation with a WebSummit representative. It is the very same WebSummit I attended last year as a visitor, but this time they ar…
Today I saw yet another news item in Pavel Durov’s channel. The kind of news that just makes you feel sick. So here we are: Telegram is now promoting an extremely conservative journalist, the very one…
People keep asking me to finally write a WebSummit summary (who’s asking, I only have 11 followers!). Time to do it. I’ve seen a lot of feedback about WebSummit, both the one I attended and previous e…
Today there will be fewer photos and more text. Recently I listened to a talk by Simon Wistow from Fastly. His words really struck me and gave me even more hope: every major crisis has led to even gre…