Strategic break
The past month has been a time of focusing on other projects and recharging. I’ll be back soon with new topics.
The past month has been a time of focusing on other projects and recharging. I’ll be back soon with new topics.
You’re reading an article. The topic pulls you in. But after the conclusion, a question appears that the article didn’t ask — or asked, but not in the direction that interests you. You can close the tab. You can look for another article that might not exist. Or you can ask a language model —…
When we think about extremely tall structures (megastructures), we instinctively point to Burj Khalifa — over 800 meters tall, a symbol of the perceived boundary of what can be built. A boundary that, in everyday intuition, feels almost absolute. But what if we changed not the design… but the planet itself? This text attempts to…
Where Can We Actually Live? Earth is our planet. It seems obvious that we can live on it — after all, we have been doing so for hundreds of thousands of years. But if we ask a more precise question: how large is the actual space in which humans can live and work without complex…
Earth erases its traces. The Moon does not. Nothing on Earth lasts forever in its original form. Rain, wind, tectonics, water — they work together to keep every surface in constant motion. A meteor crater vanishes within millions of years. A human footprint — within minutes. The planet is alive, and because of that it…
A recruiter once told me something that stuck with me: that you can’t really tell from a CV and a job interview whether someone will be good at a given position. That intuition plays a large role — whatever you choose to call it. She was talking about ordinary, well-defined roles. Traditional positions with lists…
For decades, we knew how to measure a person’s value at work. AI is changing those rules — and no one yet knows what to replace them with. Something I Was Very Good at Is Now Free and Abundant In early 2026, Aditya Agarwal — one of Facebook’s earliest engineers, later CTO of Dropbox, the…