idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️

Founder ✦ Designer @awesomic (YC S21) ✦ Ukrainian from Crimea

[Michael Perevoznyk @m_perevoznyk]

This day has come: Cafe Cursor is coming to Kyiv on June 30 ⚡️

Together with @bohdanpodvirnyi, @maksymatalks, and @cursor_ai, we’re turning CultMotiv on Podil into a one-day co-working cafe for people building with Cursor and AI.

Bring a laptop, grab coffee, work, meet others!

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

guys will see this and just think “hell yeah”

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@VERYKOOLLUKEY *in June

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@sapitonmix for gen alpha, harry potter style aesthetics will probably be what ирония судьбьі aesthetics was for us

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

I’m convinced 90% of my productivity depends on finding that one perfect track that scratches the brain and putting it on repeat for the entire day

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Birds in Ukraine are using drone fiber-optic cables to build nests

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

by the end of the video, the child and the cat had raised a $3M+ pre-seed round

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

great post but absolutely insane quality of quote tweets. can’t stop reading.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

absolutely agree — for true accuracy they should’ve cast a man in women’s clothes for Helen

[Variety @Variety]

Elon Musk is bashing Christopher Nolan for #TheOdyssey casting, alleging the director cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy because he “wants the awards.”

In additional X posts, Musk re-tweeted posts that mocked Elliot Page’s masculinity and claimed that Nolan was stomping all over Homer’s grave because of his casting choices.

https://t.co/WuLywXcmLi

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@Variety absolutely agree — for true accuracy they should’ve cast a man in women’s clothes for Helen

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@sapitonmix the most Servant-politics-coded vehicle at this point is VW Transporter (sorry not sorry)

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

the garage itself can also be quite innovative here as you can see

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

absolutely agree. the “гаражі” culture is undoubtedly a reason why Eastern Europe continues to innovate.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

It could actually be a significant problem that Europe doesn't have enough garages. This sounds like a joke, but I'm serious. Garages let you work on stuff that doesn't matter yet, which is how big things often start. The outliers of ideas need the outliers of space.

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

just a guy casually chilling in a metro station in Kyiv during an air raid, beneath a recruiting ad from a military unit that reads: “Our robots take POWs”

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@kayVee_arts we do both, yes! 🙌🏻

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

thinking about refreshing my personal site (again) — looking for some fresh stuff

drop your favorite personal websites (yours included 👀)

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@zradaqueen всією сім'єю дуже вдячні🥰

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

congratulations to my granny, Svitlana, on her 90th birthday — a survivor of both World War II and the 2022 russian invasion. A real OG and true example for all of us.

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

Meet my grandmother Svitlana.

She survived WWII. But after the decades of peace, she's in the bomb shelter again, 'cause of russians bombing the civilians in Ukraine.

What happened to 'Never Again'?

@NATO, #CloseTheSky over Ukraine.
@jensstoltenberg #StopPutinNOW

[idolov 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @1dolov]

@minimall дякую 🙏