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Sergei Nozdrenkov

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Wildflow Coral 🪸

Since I left Google X I've been exploring Oceans + Biodiversity + AI space building my own startup wildflow.ai ( foundation models for coral reefs and beyond). It's been an incredible journey. Finally my path has crystalised. Now I know where I'm going, and most importantly

wildflow vision (part 2)

Since I left Google X over a year ago, I've been exploring different opportunities in the "ocean + biodiversity + AI/data/tech" space, building my own startup wildflow.ai . In the previous article , I explained our company vision in great detail, what problems we are solving and

wildflow vision (part 1)

Since I left Google X over a year ago, I've been exploring different opportunities in the "ocean + biodiversity + AI/data/tech" space building my own startup wildflow.ai . It's been an incredible journey! Learning so much from amazing people around the world, from OceanMBA

Ocean MBA

Intro If you're building a startup to save the oceans, today is the last day to apply for an Ocean MBA program at MIT (if you missed the deadline, still give it a try) organised by Propeller Ventures . Disclaimer: not a sponsored post, just sharing my experience. Also

2023 Year Review

It's almost the end of the 2023 – this year was an emotional roller coaster for me, definitely can't say it was boring. There was so many things, hard to even list everything. This post covers some of the highlights and lowlights of the year for

AI for Ocean Health

It's already been two months since I left my job at Google X, and I'll be honest - it was a rocky start. The first month felt like wandering in the desert for 30 years, trying to piece together my scattered thoughts and figure out what I

Leaving Google X, designing my life from scratch

I'm going through a very interesting period in life. It's very exciting and terrifying at the same time. Two weeks ago I left my dream job at Google X, moved out from my favourite flat , and now trying to find my next big thing in life.

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

It's so fascinating how this world is so interconnected. I think our universe is a strongly connected dense graph (more on that here ). In this article, I'll try to show how productivity tools (GTD), kanban dashboards, note-taking apps (and PKMs), databases and distributed systems (PubSub/

DreamQL → better SQL?

The last couple of weeks I was a little bit geeking into programming languages, distributed systems and databases. It was such a fascinating journey, I learned a lot. So, I decided to try documenting it here and see how it goes. Basically, I’m dreaming to discover or implement

Writing

How do you share your knowledge and lived lessons at scale? Almost a year ago I started writing this blog. Here’s what motivates me: 1. Giving back I personally get a lot of insights from reading the blogs of other people. E.g. I found a ton of

Health Monitoring

Being healthy is one of the most important things in life. It's really hard to do much if you're ill. I think the earlier you discover a disease the more chances you have. Also if you can prevent it from happening in the first place, that

Discovering Unknown Unknowns

Regardless how joyful or painful life is, I think that life is truly incredible! Our universe is inconceivably rich, full of opportunities, and it often reveals itself in so many unpredictable ways, it's just unreal! I believe you can simply "ask" anything from the universe and

Angel Investing

Sometimes I keep thinking what are the other interesting things I could do in life, to be a bit more helpful to people and nature, and to have more fun along the way. Recently I started exploring angel investing and startup advising . I'm a complete beginner in that

Freediving

Recently I came back from Dahab (Red Sea in Egypt), where I had a great week of freediving training with Molchanova Freediving School ! I'm feeling deeply relaxed, recharged and, in a way, like I've got some super human abilities! For those who don't know,

Achieve Your Goals (OKRs)

Happy New Year everyone! Now is a good time to think of what you want from life and come up with your New Year's resolutions . In this post I wanted to share my approach to staying on track with my goals, and hopefully providing you simple yet powerful