WRITING

I write to work things out

I write to understand a difficult subject and explain it to someone else. I work with sources, facts and numbers — from a short Telegram argument to a detailed product write-up on vc.ru.

Where I write

Telegram channel
t.me/darydiss ↗
Personal and confessional: a feeling, a story, the turn towards «why is it like this at all?», and one checked fact. Also about my life and my photographs — I shoot as an amateur, but I know the craft and I am learning to shoot better.
Blog on vc.ru
vc.ru/id5799272 ↗
Long, methodical pieces with fact-checking and numbers. One thought fits in the channel; vc.ru gets a whole piece of research, with links and sources. That is where the piece about building an AI photo studio in Telegram in three weeks lives.

What I write about

political economy and institutions · urbanism and the city · perception and neuroscience · artificial intelligence · the psychology of wanting · media and film · migration · thought experiments

Thought experiments

Thought experiments are a weakness of mine. What happens if you remove this? How does everything else change if you alter one rule? A great deal of the hypothetical and the invented about the world and how it is put together: my longest pieces come out of questions like those.

FROM THE CHANNEL

Latest in the channel

Three pieces from the channel — on perception, on desires, and on why people dislike their own photographs. The channel is written in Russian, so the excerpts below are left in the original; the full texts are one link away.

→ read the whole channel: t.me/darydiss

I write to work things out

Telegram channel

Blog on vc.ru

Latest in the channel

Я не вижу картинок в голове

Чьи это желания?

Почему ты красивый, но на фото — что-то не то