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Personal2025-11-16 · 5 min

If You Have an Answer to 'Why', You'll Handle Any 'How'

The day before yesterday I sat with Big O cards. Yesterday I closed the calendar of long interviews. I am 37. Half a year to be useful in a job, a year to my own products.

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2025-11-14·6 min

Life Tetris on Nightmare: Work, Startups, People, and Job Hunting

Interview at 3:00 PM about binary trees I have not touched in twenty years. In my head a different problem: how work, Godot, health, and people fit into one day.

#life
#work
#honesty

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2025-11-12·6 min

Three Days in Solitary: The Price of a San Francisco Life Hack

The tip 'why drink when you can smoke' led to a weekend in a cell and two years on a narcologist's list. Five years without drugs, two without alcohol, six months without cigarettes.

#life
#honesty
#mistakes

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2025-11-11·5 min

A Letter from Jack London: About Positivity When Your Wallet Is Empty

Empty wallet, ringing nerves, and a letter Jack London never sent. Positivity here is not a smile. It is a snarl and the next step.

#life
#psychology
#motivation

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2025-11-08·6 min

Summer in Crimea: Remote Work, Museums, and GitHub Sanctions

Three months in Crimea: weekdays on projects, weekends in a new place. Balaklava, a paraglider, Massandra, and a permanent GitHub ban for logging in without a VPN.

#life
#crimea
#travel

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2025-11-05·5 min

I Don’t Remember Half of What I Built: The Weird Reality of Filling a Portfolio

Two days filling a portfolio after sixteen years. Twenty-plus cases, and only up to 2014. Half of them looked new.

#life
#psychology
#career

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2025-11-04·6 min

Moving to my own products. First game: memory palaces

At 37 I am shifting focus to my own products, including mobile games on Godot. First one: Memory Palaces. MVP in 2–3 weeks, targets for D1 and D7.

#life
#entrepreneurship
#gamedev

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