Germany is when you’re using a cutting-edge computer, capable of calculating rocket trajectories with AI smarter than most people on Earth, to craft a letter you’ll later have to print and send by post.

Peak Germany: dad at the table next to me is explaining taxation to his ~8 year old kids

Do you ever accidentally start eavesdropping a conversation in a coffee shop you wish you were a part of..?

Today is one of my favourite days in a year of a Northern Hemisphere resident. The days stops getting shorter, and tomorrow this decadent trend is taking a u-turn.

Over the many years, the way I think about new product ideas has changed from “whether I can build it” to “whether I can market/sell it.” If I don’t see how I can get people to use it & make money off of it, I refrain from working on the idea altogether.

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One job that won’t be replaced by AI anytime soon is a graffiti remover in Berlin

Whenever I have doubts about whether what I'm doing makes sense, I try to remind myself I'm just a piece of meat on a rock floating in the big, cold, black void. And whatever my mind paints as "problems" fades away. Anything is important except for the present moment.

"The single best thing you can do on social media is to judge a person by the number of their followers" — Cicero, 234 BC

Focusing on getting the most out of what you have—instead of dreaming about what you don‘t—brings much better results, much faster, and is more sustainable mentally.

German winter isn‘t that bad

I honestly cannot think of a thing that makes me happier than waking up when I want to—without an alarm clock

Don‘t make someone who should be an employee your cofounder

My takeaways from using an escrow service to buy two apps this year: https://chernikov.xyz/my-experience-of-using-escrowcom-to-acquire-two-apps