Understand the World

Ideas, experiments and projects by Oleksandr.
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Assistant 2.0: Features Are Overrated

Features are overrated. Paper notebooks. Thousands of notes. Speed. Focus.

Brain-computer interfaces

Brain-computer interfaces. Upper limit on complexity. Composable systems vs emergent phenomena. Think. Sleep. Repeat.

Mini-post on minicoil

Trying to resume regular blogging. Release: minicoil - subset of Recoil.js API. Glorified global variables :)

Subscription Future Token

SaaS pricing. Price discovery. Growth expectations catch-22. Subscription Futures. Believers, Investors and Distributors.

What's a 'business'? What's a 'tool'?

People, visions, interactions. Self-evident, never-verbalized things. Engelbart's violin, open-source, hand-holding and TikTok.

River: Bitemporal App Platform

I should really blog more often. Surprisingly, the database idea works.

News and Ideas

When you lose something, it’s the right time to start something new.

Tanda: The Knowledge Assistant

Today I had a day of doubts. Is this project worth the effort? A remarkably vague idea, grab bag of features, and even more vague market…

Accidental Complexity: Files

When I wrote about ideas and competition, I said: "you can beat large companies by spotting accidental complexity and avoiding it." Pick a problem...

Current Efforts

I focus on three major areas now: Personal knowledge assistant – saves time, attention and focus; Research paper...

History of Ideas

Have you tried writing down every idea that’s a) valuable and b) you definitely could do it over the weekend? None of that “change the world…

Language Engineering

Let’s talk about self-aware systems. Nah. Let’s start with something simpler. What if we apply the systems engineering approach to the…

A failed experiment, and the real magic

Today’s post was meant to be a short plan for the next few days (“commit to a plan in public,” blah blah). Then, things suddenly went south…

Picking a Language

I thought a lot about this. I’d like the blog to be accessible for different audiences, as well as practice writing in multiple languages…

Opening

This will be my work diary. I’m sure future posts will be more interesting :)