Inspirations
Inspirations people that inspire me and whom i consider to be anti-antihuman. Václav Havel Neil Postman Alan Kay Bret Victor Yaroslav Hrytsak
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anti-antihuman. 2025-02-08
anti-antihuman. 2025-02-08 Hi everyone, Wrote two new simple posts since the last update: https://antiantihuman.com/marketing https://antiantihuman.com/unverifiable-technology They are both about modern technology. Good parts and bad parts. I have a backlog of those stories that I want to share Till the next time! Anton
anti-antihuman. first update. 2025-01-24
anti-antihuman. first update. 2025-01-24 Hey everyone, Anton here. Thank you for subscribing to my new blog. Currently it’s 20 people total, but I think more people have read some of my posts. I’ve only started writing this one 20 days ago but already have 8 posts: https://antiantihuman.com/on-hiding https://antiantihuman.com/toxic-sweetness https://antiantihuman.com/mismatch…
anti-antihuman. 2025-02-20
anti-antihuman. 2025-02-20 Hi everyone, Wrote two new simple posts since the last update: https://antiantihuman.com/the-work-about-nothing https://antiantihuman.com/fake-analysis As always those are my random reflections on various topics I think throughout the week. Some personal notes: I’ve spend few days hanging out with friends in Baja California and 7 days in New York on a solo trip. Those…
anti-antihuman. 2025-02-02
anti-antihuman. 2025-02-02 Hi everyone, Wrote two new simple posts since the last update: https://antiantihuman.com/not-yet https://antiantihuman.com/seinfeld Those are not super deep reflections, but still I think there are few small observations on societies, language and culture. Small update from me. In general I write a lot of code. But this past January I did two things: run 100km. Join my…
anti-antihuman. let’s do something good together
anti-antihuman. let’s do something good together Hi everyone, Anton here. As some of you might know I’m originally from Ukraine. Almost 3 years ago russia launched full scale invasion of my home country. Almost 11 years ago russia started the war annexing Crimea and launching military operation in the east of Ukraine. So let's do something good together . Donate money to any Ukrainian nonprofit…
Context Matters
Context Matters Today I start with the claim. Best people, best partners, best friends, best managers, best colleagues - are those who care about the context. If I want to build deep relationships I gave a person more and more context about me over time. And I seek more and more context from another person. At the end of the day ideally we have pretty detailed mental models of each other in our…
Decentralization
Decentralization I’m going to be quick here. Let’s examine just one chart (usually that is not enough, but will do the job now). Up until 2014 US GDP was similar to EU. In the past 10 years US GDP grew 10T USD, while EU grew 3T USD. I believe that US foreign policy in 2025 is partially a result of this growth. American administration feels too powerful because it’s backed by the economy.…
Fake analysis
Fake analysis Ok. Imagine you are in the taxi or uber somewhere in the US. Your driver has his radio on. What is he listening to? It’s some sport analysis show - basketball or baseball or football. Hosts of the show debate the game from yesterday. Everyone makes some smart sounding points. They tell the stories that should explain in one go why their team did good/bad yesterday. It’s all very…
The work about nothing
The work about nothing I have this theory that you can be an above-average middle manager if you do close to nothing. Maybe run some weekly meetings, a few superficial one-on-ones and some quarterly checkins for formality. Nothing more. By not doing things you can be better than majority of other middle managers that do things that end up being detrimental - micromanagement, being vocal about your…
Unverifiable technology
Unverifiable technology December 2020. I’ve juts got my first driving license and went to Mexico for a solo trip. I’ve rented a car all by myself. I’ve put my luggage in the car and left rental station. I’ve parked the car near the coffee shop and wanted to go to the beach. I closed the car and the trunk using electric key. I’ve checked the trunk of my car while before leaving to the coffee shop…
Marketing
Marketing I know about WeWork for probably 10 years now. Since then times when I lived in San Francisco. But somehow it never appealed to me. As far as I remember their marketing was always focused on “community” and exclusivity. They even renamed company to be “We”(about people and community) from “WeWork” (about the place to work). And on top of that marketing message there was always this drama…
Seinfeld
Seinfeld If you want to understand America you need to watch Seinfeld. It’s a cultural phenomenon that is still relevant today - 35+ years after the first season came out. Ok, so you’r millennial from Europe and you like Friends or Sex and The City - I got it. Those things are much more popular outside of the US. But let me bring you to America. As of Jan 31, 2025…
Not yet
Not yet There is one episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza pitches his sitcom to Russell Darlymple who is the president of NBC. Proposed sitcom is the show about nothing. Basically it’s a show where nothing happens and characters just do their everyday chores. Perplexed Dalrymple asks: Well, why am I watching it? George: It’s on TV. Dalrymple: Not yet. Not yet. Such a powerful phrase. I wish…
Communication
Communication I’m staying in Mexico in Playa del Carmen. There is a nice local food truck that sells tacos and tortas (Mexican sandwiches). Every day I go there and order two tortas: one for myself and one for my girlfriend. My order usually goes like this: “One sandwich with meat with cheese and no onions and another one with meat and onions and no cheese”(una torta con arrachera y queso sin…
Latex salesman
Latex salesman At work I decided to open Health savings account ( HSA ) - this is special type of individual pension account that you can use for health related expenses. Usually your company enrolls you in and you just need to register online and small amount of your monthly income will be allocated into this account. So I tried to do the registration part on a provider’s site. But it didn’t…
Corruption
Corruption Years ago I worked at a big tech company. Every employee had an “educational budget” - some fixed amount of money(I forgot how much it was, maybe 200 USD per year or so) per year that can be spent on books, courses etc. One day our CEO wrote some autobiography. As far as I can tell it wasn’t associated with the company. But everyone got email in the company to buy his book using our…
Blowing bubbles
Blowing bubbles In Californication I’ve told a story how some information and common knowledge have a huge latency(time to travel) when spreading from one cultural hotspot to rest of the world. It always took time for ideas and cultural norms from some society or group of people to spread around geographically. So pretty much for the whole history of community we had some bubbles that would grow…
Californication
Californication Three new stories today. Connected by the common trend. Year 2018. I live in San Francisco but come to visit Ukraine. In Kyiv I go and attend a few tech meetups. There is some book from Google on management or something that is all the rage. Everyone is talking about it. How to build and run software company told by some manager from Google(I’m writing this from my memory, so the…
Programmable intimacy
Programmable intimacy I am on the call with the sales person from one of the software vendors I’m trying to use. We had an intro call one month before, since then I made a proof of concept demo using their tool and went on a two weeks vacation. This call is a catch-up call to talk about the demo experience and future. It starts with small talk. He asks me how my vacation was. I told him a few…
Mismatch
Mismatch Year 2023. I'm in London. My sneakers are finished, and I need to buy new ones. I'm searching online for some European brands. Finally, I found one. It's called Axel Arigato. All the photos online look great. I like the design of the site. Those sneakers are not cheap. So I spent a few days thinking about it and checking the site back and forth. Finally, I checked the location for the…
Toxic sweetness
Toxic sweetness I'm on the call with an Airbnb support. There is a problem with the apartment I'm staying in and I need to cancel current booking and immediately move to another place. The customer agent tells me he understands my problem and "empathizes" with it. He tells me he will help me and that I shouldn't worry, saying "I'm here for you". But of course he cannot solve it immediately and…
On Hiding
On Hiding Sometime in the past decade, I worked in a huge tech company out of San Francisco. During one of the nights as an engineer, I got invited to an urgent customer call. No one knew what the problem was, so different people from different teams were called in just in case. When I joined the call, I saw 30 people. Half of the participants were VPs, Directors, and high-profile managers. The…