The other day I worked on photographs of Nikita that I took last summer. I sent it to him. A few hours later I received a review.

It’s very nice to receive sincere feedback about a project that I did with pleasure and love. This is not an advertisement or a moment of vanity. I knew that the project was cool and the person appreciated the result - everything was natural and it couldn’t have been any other way.

Wow, this is so cool ✨✨✨ I haven’t had any photos like this!

The best thing is to guess these long days 😇

Is there an Instagram? I wish I could decide 😉

But, you can get feedback that will mentally return you to your routine - “Oh no, that was a pussy!” Even if the author of this review uses the most colorful epithets, this is a fake. You created a fake, you were valued falsely, all you have to do is falsely rejoice. Most people today are living a fake life.

• Feeling is a skill
• Understanding who is worth working with and who is not is a skill
• Creating by sincerely expressing yourself is a skill

This will definitely not be taught in trainings or at university. They teach just the opposite - how not to be your real self, but to be like this one (or that one). How to put away your best qualities, replacing them with a cheap fake. How to rejoice correctly, radiate confidence and optimism.

Back to the review. Yes, it was a sunny summer evening. Good evening!

We work with people and for people. Alive and real. It is extremely important to sincerely express yourself while enjoying the process - this is the basis for great results and truly satisfied clients.

Don’t deceive others! Do not lie to yourself!

P.s. I’ll post photos a little later. I’ll add the link here.

(Since June 22, 2024, Space has ceased to be just a site - now it is a set of tools, processes and principles that help me work)

Hello! In this post I talk about the problem of centralization, why I am creating not a simple blog, but Space and how it should help me remember, think and create.

Web was designed to connect people and documents. For a while it was like that - a nice, cozy place where everyone had (potentially could have) a corner with their own rules and style. For example, my friends and I had blogs on LiveJournal and Wordpress, I went to someone’s server or computer via FTP to download a document, and in the evening I listened to home Internet radio (if I’m not mistaken, from Denis Vasilkov there was once an evening “warm tube” radio).

Today everything has changed (and continues to change, unfortunately). Nice cozy corners have turned into huge, noisy “squares” with constantly changing policies, total surveillance and even paid access .

I feel nostalgic for the times when we ruled the web. But I have the strength and capabilities to regain my “corner of the Internet.”

Welcome to my space !

I almost always¹ respond to letters and comments. Sometimes I can write two words in response, sometimes a big “sheet”.

There are no public comments in my space , but under almost every note there is a link to send me a comment by email. This is a limitation, but I use it. Yes, it’s not like others, there is no call to action in the form of a very simple form and a beautiful “comment” button, but this helps.

I consider such commentary to be as sincere as possible - it is written to me personally and is not visible to others, it takes time and effort (and this is very important and creates additional value).

These are sincere comments, so I have to respond. Just write to me.

Life is an endless process from enjoying order to encountering chaos. We definitely don’t have enough time to understand the order of life (although what is order and whether there is one at all). Jordan Peterson urged to clean up your room first.

People perceive minimalism superficially - get rid of the unnecessary, be content with little. Beautiful and fashionable minimalist interiors promise happiness, but there is no happiness without meaning. It’s not the empty desk that’s important, it’s the path to the empty, clean desk. You can throw everything off your desk but still be unhappy and continue to feel tired and panicky.

• Why were these things on the table?
• Do you really not need this anymore?
• Is it difficult to go with this?
• Where are you going?

Last summer, during another photo walk, a guy approached me (as I understood him to be a Turk) and asked him to photograph. No problem! He asked me to send the photos to gmail, but instead of leaving me his address, he wrote down mine. I was like “in star mode” - OK, I wrote down my email, so he’ll write and I’ll send you the photos. I even retouched them a little - done! But the Turk did not write.

Perhaps I forgot. Perhaps he was embarrassed, but I am more inclined to believe that he simply did not realize that he needed to write to me. It’s a pity! The photos are good, but I had to delete them because… I do not need them.

Yesterday I received a letter from Pika in the mail… Who is Pika and why is she (he) writing to me. The letter contains congratulations - cool! It’s just not happy. Everything must be on time. Having visited the site, I remembered what Pika is, but now I don’t need it, because “a spoon is expensive for dinner.”

And if you decide to send the user such a letter, again interest him in the product. Well, what is it? A few lines of text, and the button is somewhere unknown…

Today, while working on his Space , I decided to check what the preview of the notes ¹ in Meta would look like. But he changed his mind after he saw a “closed door” in the form of a login page. My page Facebook I have long been closed and I don’t want to check I can enter using the login and password or I need to restore the account first (or it will recover after entering the debugger).

But we are talking about something else. More recently, every platform came up with and imposed on us its standards. As an example, AMP from Google or the same pages from Facebook (I don’t even remember what they called). They try to introduce such standards in any direction of technology, because it is profitable to manage the standard and have dependent users.

Hands assemble a billion-year clock from the Lego construction set. The author of the channel collects a lot more. The presentation is interesting - the assembly starts simple and gradually becomes more complicated.

I thought this video was a great illustration of making a product more complex for the sake of complexity. Billion year clock? Cool! What time is it now?

I used Threads for a bit before it closed the door on Europeans and many VPN users again.

I didn’t see anything new or revolutionary there—another social network. Yes, now it seems that your messages are seen by different people and you see messages from different people (and this is already bad ;-), but the network was launched recently.

Here is opinion that Threads causes internal conflict and that- it will force you to change in life:

There is also a feeling that threads develops an interesting internal conflict in people:

Social the network offers unprecedented mechanisms for involving strangers, but many have nothing to offer them to develop this involvement. Someday you start to get tired of nudes, good mornings, sucking on m/f topics, etc.

I think in this social network. networks have a certain cultural threshold. And she will force you to change something in your life as the number of people here grows :)

Evolutionary algorithms in action :)

All this is beautiful in theory, but in practice a mass product always adapts to the majority. Most likely, gradually Threads will motivate people to write nonsense (for example, by promoting it). Society is like this, which means a mass product will make money from it while it can, and not try to “grow” an audience.

Threads is young and so far it really seems democratic and interesting. But I predict that very soon it will turn into Twitter.

I want to be wrong and see a social network that, as the author noted in the post above, will force users to change something in their lives.

I’ve noticed that I get the most satisfaction from systemic change. For example, I added a new feature, fixed something on the site, drew a logo, corporate identity or a key interface element. These are changes that affect not one element (section) of the system, but the entire system as a whole or its larger part (section, branch).