Moving My Writing to Substack
I’ve decided to move most of my writing from Medium to Substack, across two new blogs on autonomous navigation and on AI for negotiations.
Essays
A decade of writing on artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality, startups and society — 2015 to today. New writing now lives on Substack (autonomous navigation) and Substack (AI for negotiations).
2025
2024
Should All Teachers Be Replaced by AI?
Interview on integrating ChatGPT-4o-class technologies into the education system: which teachers AI can replace, digital twins of professors, and four conditions for successful integration.
Advice after Your Exit
Exactly two years after selling my main business to Qualcomm: 14 rules for founders on money, lifestyle, investments, «new friends», family and the next business.
2023
Investing in Ukrainian MilTech Startups: Opportunities and Risks
Over 40 war-tech startups approached me for investment; I invested in one. The six red flags every investor should check — from IP legality to founder mobilization risk.
The War in Ukraine and AI Regulation: Some Controversial Takeaways
Published at the European AI Alliance: how war reshaped my views on AI policy — hostile agents in the process, wartime scenarios, special regimes for small countries, and competitiveness.
Open Source during War: Challenges of Independent Development Teams in Ukraine
Findings from interviews with 15 independent teams building open-source products for Ukraine’s defense: «the new Kalashnikov», hidden forks, licensing after the war, and 11 systemic problems.
2021
The Metaverse, Real World and Its Correlation
Metaverse standards are being built on data from fictional worlds — while its AR share will dominate in 10–15 years. Why virtual and physical rules must correlate now.
My Article @ The Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council published my article «Ukraine’s roadmap to an artificial intelligence future».
2020
DeepFakes: Pro & Contra of Democratic Order
My talk: can DeepFakes be detected or controlled, and how will synthetic content affect elections, society and ethics over 1–10 years?
2019
#AI and Digitalization. How to Be a Global Champion?
I spent part of the summer in four regions of Ukraine, where the economy rests on old industries — logistics, agriculture, heavy industry — and thought about how AI and digitalization can make them globally competitive.
Read the full essay on the original site →How Technologies Are Going to Change the Nature of Power
How technologies will change the nature of power and political leverage in the coming 3–7 years — beyond the hype of cyberpunk and singularity.
Read the full essay on the original site →«Artificial Intelligence Trends and Applications» @ Computex 2019, Taipei
Panel discussion at Computex 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
How to Manage «AI» Development and an R&D Team in Big Corporations — Without «Casting Spells»
Big corporations in traditional industries ask me to fix their AI R&D: over-budgeting, broken goal-setting and inefficient team management. The most common issues and takeaways.
Read the full essay on the original site →When Do Robotics and Drones Companies Stop Failing?
A fan of robotics since the 90s, I watched reputable companies like Anki leave the market. Thoughts from inside the SLAM-licensing business on the market’s systemic problems.
Read the full essay on the original site →M&A of a Tech Start-up: Resolving the Conflict between Investors and Technology Co-founders
After five M&A processes in four years: the recurring conflict between investors, bankers, and the core tech team that built the IP being acquired — and how to resolve it.
Read the full essay on the original site →2018
Computer Vision in Eastern Europe: Cool Researchers & Engineers, but a Lack of Big Challenging Projects
After Amazon’s $1B Ring acquisition, interest in Eastern-European R&D centers surged. On the region’s CV/ML talent (1700+ EECVC community) and what it still lacks.
Read the full essay on the original site →The Future of Augmented Reality Infrastructure (Software and Hardware)
A private talk for a special group: what stack of technologies is needed to lead the AR field in the upcoming 10 years.
Read the full essay on the original site →2017
About New Channels that Distribute and «Install» New Worldview Programs
A hundred years ago worldview was installed through education and personal experience — and censored by church or state. What changes when new distribution channels appear?
Read the full essay on the original site →AI Bureaucracy vs Human Bureaucracy
Reprogramming one human system happens through another human system — one group of people changing the neuron connections of another. What happens when bureaucracy becomes AI?
Read the full essay on the original site →Physically Passive Augmented Reality
Written at the heart of the ARKit/ARCore marketing hurricane: users abandon AR apps that demand movement unless they get endorphins or the highest utility — a rational biological trade.
Read the full essay on the original site →Parasitism in Social Groups and Knowledge Exchange
Most social groups cost us nothing — but some we join for goals, knowledge and expensive membership. That’s where parasitism appears.
Read the full essay on the original site →My Talk to the Board of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
My talk to the Board of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) about Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality in Agriculture.
Read the full essay on the original site →2016
2D Symbols Are Obsolete and Should Be Reinvented for AR and VR
Since 2011 our designers tested UI/UX in AR/VR and found that transferring 2D design experience into 3D simply does not work — even 3D-game design experience barely helps.
Read the full essay on the original site →Mixing Augmented Reality with Artificial Intelligence
A short video on the future of AR/VR, why AR/VR data is very useful for AI, and AR vs VR in our current life concept.
Read the full essay on the original site →Virtual Reality Is Just a Subtrend of Augmented Reality… in Our Current «Life Concept»
In 2015–2016 VR seemed to be everywhere while AR receded. Unless we plan to live in the Matrix, that picture is wrong.
Read the full essay on the original site →Will Employers «Hire» Neural Networks / Robots instead of Harvard/Stanford Students?
After a weekend of EECVC and a private Systems Engineering event: education reform so far is mostly the imitation of change.
Read the full essay on the original site →RoboCommunism in the USA?
Born in the USSR, I remember the failed 75-year experiment. What happens when robots make a planned economy of abundance actually possible?
Read the full essay on the original site →Virtual Reality Could Be the Best Visual Interface for Drones
Our lab experiments with natural interfaces for manual drone control: a VR headset plus gesture recognition on top of our SLAM SDK.
Read the full essay on the original site →Early Investors in B2B Startups Pay for Free Pilots for Big Empires
The B2B investment boom explained: corporations get more profit from external startup investments than from in-house R&D — and early investors foot the pilot bill.
Read the full essay on the original site →Virtual Reality: Gender and Religious Barriers
Selling VR at exhibitions on three continents, I watched unexpected obstacles arise for new technologies from gender differences and religious traditions.
Read the full essay on the original site →2015
Recent Investment in Machine Learning
I have invested in the Semantic Sales project — a machine-learning startup (with an article about the project originally published by AIN.ua).
Read the full essay on the original site →My Dream Is to Finish Building the Drone from My Childhood :=)
After model cars came model aircraft — control-line planes with kerosene engines, the predecessors of today’s drones.
Read the full essay on the original site →Automotive Modeling — My Childhood Hobby in the USSR
At age 7 in the USSR I joined an aircraft and car modeling club; for the next three years my models took 1st–3rd places. How models were built and competed in the USSR.
Read the full essay on the original site →Startups: Focusing on Execution Instead of Employees’ Innovation
Why do people with brilliant ideas leave innovative companies and build their own — instead of realizing ideas within existing structures?
Read the full essay on the original site →Lifehack: How to Improve Your Sales Skills in Silicon Valley for Free :=)
After our $1M round, sales managers rang my phone off the hook — two calls per hour. Instead of turning it off, I found a way to profit.
Read the full essay on the original site →Technology — a Ticket to the Top for Regional Elites
Global centers of meaning treat regional elites as «public services». The only historical ticket up — long-term technological specialization, not war.
Read the full essay on the original site →Forbes Ukraine: Why Ukrainian Startups Move to California
My Forbes Ukraine interview: why Augmented Pixels relocated from Odesa to Silicon Valley after raising $1M — and what Ukraine must fix to keep its IT talent.
Boom in AR/VR as a Result of Global Competition in the Mobile Industry
Why Google, Samsung and Apple suddenly care about AR/VR: the smartphone market ran out of expansion room, and the next battle for wallets will happen directly in front of consumers’ eyes.
«Лучший питч — продукт, клиенты и доходы». Интервью о маркетинге Augmented Pixels
Интервью для Netpeak: о принципах ведения бизнеса в Украине и США, ненужности бизнес-планов и креативных питчей, и о способе стать лучшим программистом.
Read the full essay on the original site →Технологии — билет наверх для региональных элит
Единственный «билет наверх» для региональных элит — долгосрочная технологическая специализация населения, а не война.
Стоимость управляющей элиты: Запад vs Украина
Почему элита «Запада» может позволить себе летать на работу на вертолете, а наша должна «ездить на велосипеде»?
2010: Налоги как характеристика мировоззрения власти
Преобладание налогов с оборота или с прибыли показывает, кем власть считает свой народ.
2010: Соль проектного менеджмента
Чем отличается большой проект от маленького?
2010: Героический манипулятор
Классический сценарий «сотрудника-героя»: неделя безделья, умные вопросы за четыре дня до дедлайна и «подвиг на рабочем месте». Что с такими делать.
2009: О пользе гламура (чужое потребление вам выгодней, чем сбережение)
Потраченные на «сверкающие часы» 35 000 не остались в банке — они ушли вниз по вертикали потребления.
2009: «Человек НЕ функция», или Работник
Кнопка контроля чистоты туалета в Макдональдсе — и почему независимые системы контроля встречают такое сопротивление.
2009: Базар мировоззрений
Мир заполонили торговцы мировоззрениями. Как выбирать, чтобы исключить манипуляцию?
2009: Не бери откаты — рабом станешь!
«Византийская» система удержания ценных кадров: официально платить меньше рынка, дать возможность брать откаты — и получить вечного раба.
2009: Партнерство vs наемный труд
Наличие адекватного человека, готового потратить время своей жизни на идею, — лучший показатель ее успеха. Сотрудники на зарплате такого сигнала не дадут никогда.
2009: Народная мудрость, предостерегающая от финансового кризиса
«Денег накопил, да дури накупил» — пословицы, которых хватило бы, чтобы не попасть в топку кризиса. Почему ими никто не воспользовался?
2009: Народная мудрость, поощряющая предприимчивость
«Хочешь жить — умей вертеться»: пословицы, доказывающие, что славяне традиционно вовсе не против бизнеса. Просто про них не говорят по телевизору.
2008: Человечество ограничивают учителя географии
«Ресурсы ограничены», говорили на географии. А потом были уроки астрономии — и противоречие: если вселенная бесконечна, ресурсы бесконечны.
2008: Риторика опять выигрывает у фундаментального анализа
Красивые тексты «по аналогии» с методами Рузвельта вместо фундаментального анализа: зачем финансировать ручную работу 100 человек, если тот же результат дает одна машина?
2008: Одна из основ кризиса — менеджер как существо, зарабатывающее только на позитивной лжи
Менеджер никогда не заинтересован публично прогнозировать кризис — это системная ошибка глобальной мотивации, серьезнее деривативов.
2008: Система публичной постановки задач чиновникам и контроля их выполнения
Реестр чиновников, публикация проблем, рейтинги нерешаемости и автоматическая эскалация — почти всё можно автоматизировать.
2008: Ограниченное консьюмерство
Если ресурсы Земли ограничены, каждого ждет «энергетическая паспортизация» и культура ограниченного потребления. Вопрос лишь в том, чем ограничен путь к этому.
2008: Уносят ИДЕЮ с собой, так и не поделившись…
Что заставляет человека делиться идеями с обществом — и не лишало ли человечество само себя ИДЕЙ из-за несовершенства системы стимулов?
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