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The Skill Stack: How to Turn Claude Into an Operating System, Not a Chatbot
A skill is a named procedure the agent picks up on its own. Stacked together, skills turn a smart chat into an operating system that remembers, verifies itself, and improves. A 5-layer taxonomy plus an interactive catalog of our stack.
Build Yourself an Exocortex: End the Daily Groundhog Day With a Genius
Your Claude or ChatGPT is patient H.M.: brilliant every second, with no bridge across the night. Kyle Redelinghuys ran 10 billion tokens in 8 months — $15,000 of compute for $800, because the same context kept being reused. 9 loops that turn a one-shot genius into an exocortex — and where €1,000 actually goes.
The Decision Firewall: Five Filters Against the You Who Signs at 2:47 AM
Most bad founder decisions aren't made by the founder. They're made by his hypoglycemia, his resentment toward his co-founder, and his 4 AM. The decision firewall is not discipline. It is architecture that refuses to let certain classes of decisions reach certain states of your prefrontal cortex.
The Shutdown Protocol: how to fall asleep in an age that steals sleep
An evidence-based 2026 protocol for falling asleep and sleeping well: sleep is a dimmer, not a switch. A step-by-step descent corridor, an honest comparison of techniques by strength of evidence (CBT-I, breathing, light, temperature), caffeine and sleep-window calculators, a bedroom audit, 12 myths on the table, and separate routes for sleep under hard conditions — war, young kids, ADHD, shift work, menopause.
The Hyena of Europe Lectures on Morality
A guest historical longread in the World section by Roman Kupchynsky: a Ukrainian historian's look at what interwar Poland was for its minorities, how much it gained in 1945, and why its present-day lectures to the east read like a joke. Documented, in three languages.
Croatia: Immersion in a Country Carved from a Single Stone
Not a guidebook but an immersion: why Croatia is five different countries in one, how an entire city has lived inside an emperor's palace for seventeen centuries, and what pomalo means. An invitation into a full nine-layer audio guide.
How to Check Whether ChatGPT Can See You: Entity Diagnostics in One Evening
Seven steps with screenshots, three common gaps, and one question your radar should answer — not you.
Speed Reading Without the Magic: An Honest 2026 Manual
What science left of the '1000 words a minute' promise: busted myths, techniques with real numbers, and the 'Reader's Gearbox' method. Plus live widgets — measure your WPM, feel RSVP break down, and calculate how many books you'll finish in a lifetime.
Music Under a Warm Lamp: How to Build Your Own Soundtrack for Reading — and Stop Listening to Wallpaper
A step-by-step Taste Funnel — assemble your own soft instrumental music for evening reading (piano, cello, guitar, ambient) in one evening, then deepen it for years. 40+ artists with verified links, and a Ukrainian trio the algorithm will never show you.
How to Travel as a Family, Not a Tourist
A practical field manual for family travel across Europe and the Balkans with a wife, a nanny and a 2-year-old: how to pick bases, dodge tourist traps, build a daily rhythm and engineer memory instead of a checklist.
Running Shoes for Flat-Footed Marathoners: Choosing Without the Hype
Flat feet and overpronation aren't a bug — they're a hardware configuration. A practical guide: stabilization types, a comparison table of stability models, a top-5 and a three-shoe rotation. No hype.
Claude Code on Chinese Fuel: cheap LLMs via an API key
A practical How-To: which Chinese LLMs (DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen, Xiaomi MiMo) actually plug into Claude Code via an Anthropic-compatible endpoint, verified pricing (June 2026), a task→model matrix, ready-made PowerShell configs, claude-code-router, and the honest line — where to keep native Claude.
Anatomy of a Label: How Adult-Content Categorization Actually Works
An analytical manual on how adult content is categorized — taxonomy versus folksonomy, Ranganathan's faceted model, Zipf's law, recommendation engines, academic sexology, and trust-and-safety. Why a label is not reality.
A Brand Without Wikipedia Is a Company Without a Passport in the Age of LLMs
AI search no longer just finds companies — it explains them before the buyer ever opens your site. If a brand has no externally verified entity-identity (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Schema.org, LinkedIn, independent sources), the model does not stay silent — it writes your biography in your place. An anatomy of brand statelessness, with verified numbers, a named antagonist and a 60-minute audit you can run today.
Capital Hired You a Guard — and Forgot to Let You Into Your Own Life
Capital automatically converts not into quality of experience but into options — and options without direction become a wealthy version of scatter. On the internal Status Butler who buys life markers without knowing how to live, the Presence Accountant who counts recurring living touches, and Return on Presence — the metric that starts working exactly where 'how much does it cost' ends.
A Penny Against a Million: The Anatomy of Asymmetric Exposure
Why in the 21st century it's not the weaker side that loses — it's whoever pays more to respond. The cheap signal doesn't strike directly — it hijacks someone else's expensive response system: bureaucracy, lawyers, clients, cashflow, the nervous system. The kill chain of asymmetric exposure — from fake review to behavioral sterilization — and the architecture of defense.
Oral-B iO 6N: the complete no-fluff guide
A practical guide to the Oral-B iO 6N Connected Coach: modes, pressure sensor, technique, app, brush heads, battery and routine. Not a manual recap — what actually works every day.
America After Trump
Not a forecast. A map of what an election can still undo — and what has already become a bill to be paid for a generation: USAID, retribution, the press, the economy of power, the dismantling of democracy, the heirs, Taiwan, Ukraine, the EU — and four scenarios for 2027–2040.
AI Visibility as Passport Control: Why 87% of Pages Don't Exist in the Knowledge Graph
A living guide to AI visibility for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini: how entity works in the knowledge graph, why Wikidata matters, what the first peer-reviewed GEO study (Princeton, KDD 2024) actually found, and why black-hat for LLMs is now classified as a security incident under OWASP LLM01. With verified numbers from Pew, Semrush, Kalicube, and a self-audit matrix you can use today.
Pidmohylny's «The City»: An Anatomy of Ascent
A deep-dive into Valerian Pidmohylny's novel «The City» (1928): the two epigraphs as a body↔spirit frame, the French intertexts of the career novel (Duroy, Rastignac), Tarnawsky's ontological reading, sublimation as engine, the gender trap, a character and symbol map — and the cruelest irony of the author's fate.
Intellectual Addiction: How Your Mind's Distillery Chases Its Own Tail and Evaporates the Product Itself
Stuart Oskamp, 1965: the more data, the more confident the psychologists became — 33→53% — while accuracy stayed frozen at 28%. A longread about the mind's distillery with its coil looped back into the cube: books, tabs, AI responses are distilled for years, while the action flask stays empty. The neuroscience of seeking, AI as turbocharger, founder traps, an honest devil's advocate — and the valve you open without closing the tab.
How Ukraine Accidentally Became NATO's R&D Lab While NATO Was Still Writing Tenders
Operation Spiderweb wrote off a third of Russia's strategic air fleet with $2,000 drones, while the F-35 at $2 trillion waits five more years for an upgrade. This isn't a story about weapons — it's a story about two speeds of thought. A breakdown through cost-exchange, Boyd's OODA loop, 'Pentagon Wars,' and the honest nuance that the lab runs in both directions. With a decision-loop audit tool for your own cycle.
Poland — Europe's Most Toxic Friend
A scalpel dissection of the Polish-Ukrainian alliance 2022–2026: real aid and real pain, the historical account from both sides, the monument war, street-level temperature, the sociology of fatigue — and Russia as editor, not author. Not brotherhood. Strategic necessity with an exposed nerve.
The Compute Curtain: the week AI became an instrument of the state
On June 12, a single US government letter switched off two Anthropic frontier models for every foreign national on the planet. Why AI became an instrument of the state, how the 'compute curtain' works, and who holds the switch to your access.
Founders pay $9,000 to tour a BYD factory — and it's not tourism, it's reconnaissance
Investors and founders pay up to $9,000 for 3–5-day tours of BYD's plants, Unitree's robot factories and China's robotaxis. It's not tourism — it's FOMO-driven reconnaissance. Why 'go and see the system' became a tradable edge no report can give you, and why the West still flies to conferences while the signal sits in a factory with the lights off.
Why ChatGPT Trusts Wikipedia More Than Your Website
In 2026 Wikipedia supplies 13.15% of all ChatGPT citations — more than OpenAI's own site. In GPT-3's training the model re-read the encyclopedia 3.4 times and the rest of the internet less than once. This isn't about your content quality. It's about whether you're in the registry the machine trusts — and why your flawless About-page matters less to it than one line in Wikidata.
30 vs 2 drones a day: the difference between battalions isn't drones — it's who was allowed to think
An OSINT dissection of why two near-identical units near Pokrovsk produce drone loss rates that differ by an order of magnitude. The answer isn't in the hardware and isn't in the enemy — it's in an invisible procedure that one unit follows and the other considers an insult. From Semmelweis and Boyd's loop to Colonel Budnikov and Rubicon.
Capital Without Receptors: How to Turn Financial Security into a Refined Everyday Life
Financial security is raw material, not a finished dish. Capital buys access to quality, but the experience doesn't transfer from the event to the person on its own — someone has to be present at the moment of transaction. On the conversion defect, wealth as receptor anesthesia, and Return on Presence — the yield of presence.
€27 a month vs Concorde: why 'grown-up' infrastructure kills 74% of startups while boring infra prints money
My infrastructure is 11 containers, 6 products, €27/month, a stack that looks like 2014. And it's not shameful — it's an edge. An anti-hype autopsy: Brooks, WhatsApp, Amazon, 37signals and 74% of dead startups against the 'architecture astronaut' who builds not your product but his own résumé, on your runway.
The Market as a Sensor: 13 Minutes vs. Five Months
The market named the Challenger culprit in 13 minutes. The commission took five months. How price became the fastest sensor of reality — and why the sensor became a target.
Knowledge Graph or Death Without a Scandal: How to Vanish from a Market in a Quarter Without Doing Anything Wrong
In one week in June 2025, Google quietly deleted more than 3 billion entities from its Knowledge Graph — no announcement, no email, no warning. Brands in 2026 don't die in a blast; they die in JSON-silence. One morning AI Overviews describes you in someone else's words, ChatGPT says of your founder, 'I don't have reliable information,' and a quarter ago everything was fine. This isn't a post about SEO. It's an audit of whether you exist for the machine.
Why Ukrainian YouTube Matures Faster Than Ukrainian Politics
Media creators mature faster than the state not because they're more virtuous — they have a shorter accountability loop. On the asymmetry of punishment speed, and where the analogy breaks.
Anyone Can Generate It Now. You Get Paid for Knowing Where to Look
In five years the cost of a million tokens fell from $60 to roughly $0.05 — somewhere between 280x and 1,200x. When generating options is nearly free, the only scarcity left is attention: where you look and what you actually finish. The bottleneck moved from production to judgment.
The Teflon life: when nothing sticks to memory anymore
The metro, the turnstile, two hryvnias you don't have. Sour dumplings from the train, fried over with ketchup until the smell of sour becomes just the smell of frying. Back then everything hurt — and everything was alive; it was one and the same fact. Then money arrives and spins a cocoon: delivery instead of the market, a taxi instead of the minibus, a curated circle instead of the random one. Across two samples of N=118 026, higher income doesn't switch off sociality — it privatizes it: fewer neighbors, more of your own people. Killingsworth: ~¾ of the income→happiness link runs through a sense of control, and control is the very material the cocoon is woven from; the $75k ceiling was overturned in 2023 — so the flatness of a rich life is not a ceiling of money but a design choice. A text about the Teflon life that nothing sticks to — and about engineered permeability: calibrated friction instead of maximal.
A Conductor at Double the Rate: Claude Fable 5 and the New Economics of AI Intelligence
Dnister breaks down the launch of Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic's first generally available Mythos-class model at $10/$50 per million tokens. Why 'should we switch' is the wrong question, the new economics of AI (cost-per-task versus cost-per-token), how to route tasks across Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and Fable, a fact-checked effort-level grid, the counter-thesis about definition of done, why 1M context is not memory, and the anti-patterns that burn budgets. With pricing and routing tables as of June 2026.
Nobody Googles You Anymore. They Get a Summary. And in the Summary, You're Not There.
In 2026, a brand dies quietly. The machine writes two paragraphs about your category, never says your name, and in Search Console it isn't an impression, a click, or even a negative signal — it's nothing. Death by Summary: a structural autopsy of the new brand mortality, with no obituary.
The Balkans as Europe's staging server: an offshore without palms, an EU without a center, crypto without romance
The Balkans aren't the EU's backyard — they're its staging server: a low-tax onshore belt, a tech backend, a border router, a compliance fog and a demographic drain. Bulgaria with its 10% tax, the euro and Schengen is only the first clean node of the stack, while old Europe's production quietly cracks. Named framework: the Balkan Stack.
Operating Layer: Eight Trends Quietly Rewriting the Rules — and Where They Lead
A week in review without the news noise: AI agents, the deployment gap, a machine-readable world, state capitalism, cascading crises, factory tourism, KPI blindness, and a physical revolt against data centers. One shared shift — from tools to integrated systems — and a detailed forecast of where it's all rolling.
Saylor and MicroStrategy's Perpetual-Motion Machine: How MSTR Fell from 3.89x to Parity
For six years the machine turned $1 of stock into $3.89 of Bitcoin and called it strategy. It worked right up until someone walked over with a flashlight and read the gauge. A breakdown of what happens to any flywheel when reflexivity reverses — and why a perpetual-motion machine spins only as long as the crowd sincerely doesn't want to approach the meter.
A Warm Bath With Gunpowder In It: How Europe Is Rewriting the Welfare State Into a War Budget
In 2024 the EU's welfare bath weighed €4.925 trillion — 27.3% of GDP, almost 13× its defence. Now a war meter has been lowered into the water, and it's already ticking.
The CRM polygraph: the software knows you're lying before you finish your coffee
We hate the customer-tracking software not because it's complicated. We hate it because it's the one place in the company where what we said sits right next to what we actually did — and the gap shows up as a number. Most 'CRM failures' are really a failure of patience with your own reflection. Four simple checks catch the self-deception with about a week's margin of error.
Psoriasis as a Dashboard: When Your Skin Reads the Operating System First
Psoriasis isn't cosmetics — it's systemic inflammation with a UI. A journey through the biomes of one disease: the bathroom at 3 a.m., the checkout line full of free dermatologists, $23,838 a dose, the Dead Sea, the dark forest of the mind. A scalpel without anesthesia. No conclusions.
The market is a crowd pretending to be a calculator
Over 20 years, missing just the 10 best days in the market roughly halves your final return. And most of those best days happen within two weeks of the worst ones, in the very heart of the panic. The market's greatest generosity hides inside its greatest fear. It's not a calculator. It's a crowd holding a calculator with trembling hands. An anchor dissection of the 'Markets' rubric: why price is a consensus of emotion in the costume of math, and where the crowd finally stops lying.
Don't ask 'who am I,' ask 'what do I do every day': 20,112 rat tails and the end of identity-as-noun
You can live a decade inside a beautiful self-description that never once passed a behavioral check. 'Who am I' can't be measured — only what you do, and how often, can. From the rats of Hanoi and Goodhart's law to OKRs, the SEALs, and a basket of six proxies: how to read yourself by the action log, not by the fog.
Marathon and Ultramarathon Without Illusions, Romance, or Vanilla
Not how to run 42.195, but why. Roughly half of all finishers cross the line with elevated troponin — the same blood test that diagnoses a heart attack in the ER. The fittest hearts carry the most coronary plaque. The average person's first marathon comes at around 38, not 18. A dissection of the physiology without anesthesia, of proving yourself through the body, and of a $5.2-billion suffering industry — plus the honest line past which running adds years to your life instead of trading them away.
The Man as a Resource
Many successful men don't so much want more sex as they want to stop being only a function: an ATM, a father, a CEO, a decision-maker. If a man doesn't feel wanted at home, he goes looking for a mirror in which he looks alive again. A breakdown of the mechanism — no redpill cringe, no excusing affairs.
A mortgage to swat a mosquito: the math in which the rich just lose more slowly
All nine previous texts were about how the way we fight is changing: drones, surveillance, asymmetry, the algorithm, open source. This one is about the older, duller truth beneath all of it. Big wars are won not by a commander's genius or by better weapons, but by whoever's economy, demographics, and political will hold out longer. War is three clocks: combat losses, economic attrition, and the patience of society. The loser is the one whose clock stops first. The synthesis of the series.
War Went Open-Source
Weapons are no longer built solely by closed corporations from secret blueprints. They are now developed like open code: drawings are posted online, enthusiasts print them on 3D printers, the community forks and improves them, shares them in chats. The hobby of makers and RC modellers has become a military supply base. War has migrated from the closed defence industry's 'cathedral' to the 'bazaar' of distributed development — in Eric Raymond's terms. And the bazaar's chief rule is merciless: a published file can never be recalled.
A Million Drones — a Test of the State's Ability to Learn
When a state announces 'we'll build a million drones,' everyone hears a production figure. In truth it's a stress test: are the institutions able to learn, coordinate, scale, and absorb what they've made. The factory is the easy part. The hard part is training operators, delivering, writing it into doctrine, closing the feedback loop — and not turning the number into theatre. On the state as a system that learns, on the learning rate — and on Goodhart's law, which turns the goal into a performance.
The Algorithm as Officer
In 1983 a Soviet officer, Stanislav Petrov, saw 'missiles incoming' on his screen — and refused to believe the machine. He may have saved the world. Today the machine does not warn; it proposes targets: it ranks, recommends, compiles lists. The human stays in the loop — but increasingly only as a signature beneath the algorithm's decision. On the delegation of killing, automation bias, the accountability gap, and the defining question of the era: is anyone left who can still say 'no'?
Electronic Warfare as the New Artillery
Stalin called artillery the god of war. In the 21st century a new god has appeared — an invisible one. Electronic warfare doesn't destroy the drone; it severs its nervous system: it jams the control channel, spoofs the navigation, makes the machine blind in a second. The drone falls without a scratch. This is the war for the electromagnetic spectrum — invisible terrain fought over as fiercely as heights once were. And, as in *Dune*, it brings back to the field the oldest solution of all — the wire.
The Shahed Is the Kalashnikov of the 21st Century
The most successful product of the 20th century was neither the car nor the phone, but the Kalashnikov rifle: over a hundred million units, cheap, indestructible, indifferent to ideology. It democratized the firepower of infantry. The cheap kamikaze drone does the same thing — but raises the democratization one floor higher: from the tactical shot to strategic range, the last monopoly of great powers. On the weapon that redistributes power downward — with figures and tables.
Ukraine as NATO's R&D Lab
Western weapons are born on a ten-to-twenty-year cycle: requirement, tender, prototype, trials, production run. Ukrainian drones reflash their firmware overnight and ship to the front by morning. This is a collision of two development models — the slow procurement 'waterfall' and continuous combat integration. And the most uncomfortable question: what kind of lab is it where the test subjects die and the reports are read by someone else?
Kill Chain in Minutes
For two hundred years we were promised that technology would dissolve the fog of war. We compressed the sensor-to-shot chain from days to minutes and made the earth transparent. And then it turned out: the fog didn't vanish. It simply relocated — from the sensor into the head of whoever has to decide. On the kill chain in numbers, the general drowning in data, a map the size of an empire — and why clarity became a new form of blindness.
The Form Drifts. The Core Doesn't.
I took four of my own texts spanning eighteen years and laid them side by side. A stranger would swear four different authors wrote them: a six-thousand-word academic article, a surrealist manifesto at five a.m., a lecture outline, and three lines of code. Yet the core of all four is one sentence, carried over almost verbatim. On the vessel, the compression curve, the end-of-history illusion — and why form has a shelf life while an idea doesn't.
$500 vs $5 Million
A $500 drone burns a $5-million tank. A $3-million interceptor shoots down a $20,000 drone. This is not an accident or a temporary anomaly — it is the new arithmetic of war, where the winner is the one who forces the enemy to pay more for every exchange. On the cost-exchange ratio, the math of attrition, the innovator's dilemma — and why the richest army in the world learned to go bankrupt without losing a single battle.
Palantir as the Eye of Sauron
In Tolkien, the palantír is a stone that shows any point in the world in real time. Tolkien made it not a weapon of victory but a trap: the stone never lies — and that is precisely why it drives men mad. The company named after that artifact has become the nervous system of modern wars — and reproduces exactly the same trap. On Gotham, AIP, Maven, the Karp doctrine, the oracle at Delphi, the Ring of Gyges, and the question software does not solve: who holds the other stone.
A Child as the Crash Test of a Couple (Part Two)
The deep mechanics: what the research actually says (Doss; the Bogdan-Turliuc-Candel meta-analysis), why sleep doesn't recover for six years (Richter), why the body doesn't read your values, why invisible labor kills desire, why we never evolved for two parents in a concrete box — and what exactly to defend in each of the three circuits.
A Child as the Crash Test of a Couple (Part One)
A child doesn't 'glue' a couple together — that's the couple's job. It switches on cold light and shows what your union is actually built from. A breakdown of the three circuits — parents, partners, lovers — in which a couple either deepens or quietly becomes a family corporation without eros. Part one: thesis and frame.
Monogamy 2.0: Not a Cage, but a Protocol Against Chaos
Monogamy has been buried at least seven times — by Perel, Ryan, Tinder, FetLife, OnlyFans, podcasters, and your ex. The institution's corpse keeps getting up and walking. Why the old monogamy genuinely lost, and what can replace it without going poly and without returning to the patriarchal cage.
A Man Is an Archipelago, Not a Continent
A woman has a continent — one continuous territory of seven layers the man simply stopped walking. A man has no continent. He has an archipelago: scattered islands with no bridges between them, sometimes not even inside himself. A woman can live with him for 15 years and not know some islands exist — because he doesn't know either.
Love as 20-Year Infrastructure
Adult love in 2026 is no longer 'we are together.' It is a choice of city, school, the child's language, tax regime, bedroom, nanny, friends, conflict protocol, sexual field, and the way you grow old. Marriage is not an emotional status. It is a long-running infrastructure that either holds your life or slowly poisons it.
Your Wife Is a Continent, Not Furniture
The greatest mistake of long relationships is thinking that you already know the person. In fact, you usually know only her domestic version, her defensive reflexes, and the role you yourself helped construct. Deep love is not when you have finally finished reading your partner. It is when you have stopped behaving as if she has already been fully read.
Lisbon is dead. Dubai is lying. Vienna puts ambition to sleep.
The Spanish accidentally won the urban lottery. You don't have that luxury. An autopsy of suicidal relocation decisions — death certificates for Lisbon and Dubai, family math, four choice profiles and a ten-moves-ahead checklist.
How to choose a city for ten years, not for a honeymoon
The Spanish accidentally got the best cities in the world. You're also accidentally choosing your next decade — Mercer rankings, Lisbon hype, Dubai's zero tax. How to read a city as a ten-year bet, not Instagram decoration.
After the Prompt: The Birth of an Army of Agentic Loops
The prompt is no longer the main weapon for working with AI. The loop becomes the main one: context, agent, tools, artifact, verification, memory, repetition. The same architecture as in Madyar's drones — only in code.
War After the Tank: Madyar and the Birth of an Army of Drone Cycles
Ukraine's drone war proves the future of warfare belongs not to whoever has more armor, but to whoever can see, strike, count, learn and scale faster.
I released my first three music albums
A very personal experiment — I set my own prose and poetry to music. An attempt to preserve certain states, thoughts, images and inner dialogues in another form.
Cryonics — the embryo of a systemic attempt at rescue from mortality
A dense distillation: death as a process, vitrification, info death, the main Ifs of cryonics, and the key question — if there's a chance, why not try?
Parenting toddlers — adoration and crushing boredom
What actually goes on in a toddler parent's head? A condensed take on Tim Urban's essay — the brightest quotes, main theses, toddler cruelty, genius, funny lines and the honest truth about life with a small child.
A secular spiritual system
Tim Urban's essay on truth, wisdom, the fog, the Higher Being, and how to grow inwardly without dogma — but not without depth.
50 questions to ask grandma while there's still time
Every family has stories that can disappear forever. Here are 50 questions that will gently and deeply draw grandma out — and preserve memory.
Tim Urban on how to pick your life partner
What actually makes a marriage happy? A breakdown of Wait But Why's strong essay on choosing a partner, love, compatibility, fear, romanticization and the real foundations of a long union.
Top 100 books for enriching your Human Optics
A curated list of texts with maximum return on inner optics, psychological depth, sensuality, memory, metaphor and rare human experience.
The thickness of a city — why some cities are alive and others are empty
A deep look at what shapes a city's real thickness: density, rhythm, environment, services, streets, people and a sense of life. Why this matters more than a pretty picture, low prices or formal comfort.
The red dot on the Telegram icon isn't design. It's a weapon against your brain.
Your brain spent millions of years learning to react to red, motion, and unfinished things. Now every app on your phone uses that against you. What salience is, why "just for a second" turns into 40 minutes in a chat — and how to stop giving your attention away.
The architecture of attention: stop draining your most expensive resource into the sewer of Slack chats
47 seconds — that's how long you hold focus on one screen. 25 minutes — that's how long it takes your brain to come back after "a second on Telegram." A guide for remote workers: rebuild the architecture of attention and stop draining your most expensive resource into the sewer of chats.
Which AI model to choose for your task? A practical guide to GPT-4o, o1, Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5 Pro
A detailed comparison of the main 2025 AI models — GPT-4o, o1, Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Find out which model fits your task — from programming to creative writing and business analytics.
English-language reach of Ukraine's leading media: a strategic analysis for international partners
A deep dive into which Ukrainian outlets actually work for a foreign audience, and which only pretend to. Strategic takeaways for international stakeholders.
Text automation: why snippets are a must-have tool in 2025
From email to AI commands — how text snippets save hours every week. A look at the best tools, templates and use cases for freelancers, teams and offices.
How ChatGPT will change your life in 30 days: a step-by-step guide
Learn how to use ChatGPT over 30 days for daily life, work and learning. Real examples, tools and a step-by-step plan for beginners.
The 1000 Most Important English Words for Travelling the World Without Limits
Learn the 1000 most useful English words for travel. No stress at the airport, hotel, or restaurant. PDF, examples, humor, and cheat sheets.
European cuisines: what to try in France, Belgium, Scandinavia and the Netherlands
A gastronomic guide to Western and Northern Europe: the most famous dishes, desserts, street food and drinks from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. What to try — and why.