Volodymyr Vasylyna

Something I keep coming back to is the importance of focus and our ability to fight distractions.

The past three months have been quite interesting.

First things first: pick a place to rent wisely.

One night, the Russians were attacking Kyiv with missiles and drones.

It’s the end of the year.

This is a new list of cabins in the Ukrainian Carpathians I hand-picked to visit in the future and recommend others.

Recently, I’ve found myself thinking that I should read and write more.

Freedom is often understood as the ability to act without constraint.

Russia has now almost destroyed Kurakhove, a small town in the Donetska region of Ukraine, a place where I was born and raised.

Last week, I had one of the best vacation experiences ever.

Someone recently asked me if I’m satisfied with where I’m at in life now that I’ve turned 30.

Most of those who somehow address the topic of conversion rate at work don’t really control it.

Something that brings a flavor to my work is slow and deliberate thinking.

I’ve been thinking that if you want to change somebody’s mind or persuade them, arguing might not be the right way.

As I strive for a more simple life, I’m learning that minimalism isn’t just about tidying up my place and organizing my possessions.

Noticing how traditional social media is tightening the screws, creating more and more regulations and boundaries.

When I switched from marketing to an analyst job two years ago, I was convinced that the most important thing was to gain hard, technical skills.

Sometimes there are situations when a client or a colleague says, “Yes, fine, I will do this tomorrow”, and you kind of make an agreement with them.

When you write any sort of an instruction, a technical specificaiton or a brief to your colleagues or contractors, you yourself are responsible to ensure that they understand the task.

If you’re looking for a direct RSS feed of my blog, here it is https://vasylyna.net/index.xml Intro Many people do not know what RSS is, why & how to use it.

Most productivity advice focuses on speed and efficiency: more user-friendly tools allow you to get better results with fewer moves.

If a person is not feeling good and complains about a problem, talks about some kind of pain, difficulties, then probably this problem is big and significant for them.

Yesterday morning, I was walking along Livoberezhna, Kyiv, looking at the huge multi-storey residential areas and thinking about how the things we create in the digital world reflect what we build in the physical world.

Approach your manager and start a conversation with care and attention to them.

Introduction For some time now, I have been carrying the idea of moving away from the model of social life on Instagram, Tiktok and Twitter.

“The worst thing a writer can do is talk about their work.”

When we see someone who doesn’t look like us, doesn’t sound like us, doesn’t act like us, doesn’t love like us, doesn’t live like us, the first thought we have about him is rooted in either fear, or judgement, or both at the same time.

I was looking for nice houses / cabins for two for a vacation in the Ukrainian Carpathians mountains.

A couple of months ago I got certified for Adobe Analytics Business Practitioner - Professional Certification AD0-E212.

Living with an architect and interior designer, along with reading “Soft City” by David Sim revealed to me several important principles for finding and choosing urban housing.

Noticed that many people, especially in the corporate world, do not answer “I don’t know” to questions which they have no idea about.

«Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

There are times when we are getting annoyed by someone’s weaknesses.

There is a long-held belief that “following your passion” or “following your dreams” is pretty good advice.

Stop using your phone for entertainment and see what happens.

Social media and tech are designed to train our minds to crave frequent rewards.

… So if you check your texts often while trying to work, you aren’t only losing the little bursts of time you spend looking at the texts — you are also losing the time it takes to refocus afterwards, which can be much longer.

I’ve been an opponent of the so-called productivity hustle culture for quite some time now.

Slowly yet steadily my Youtube recommendations have got an enormous amount of youtubers «selling» productivity and self-development content.

I got an interesting idea during one of the conversations the other day.

I’ve just come to realization that my shift to consuming less social media content has been relatively easy mostly because I replaced it with the Youtube feed.

I got several interesting — yet, perhaps, somewhat trivial — insights after reading Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke.

There’re lots of people who claim that they stay out of politics, that politics is dirty and they have more important business than this nonsense of voting.

A quote from The Comfort Book by Matt Haig clearly articulating yet another reason of why I am pushing myself to write more: … Nowadays, I sometimes write about what I want.

The purpose of this post is to structure my reason and understanding for why I stick to the Digital Minimalism concept.

Social media encourages more emotional communication.

During my endless attempts to become the best version of myself, I always made one big mistake: I constantly compared my experience with someone else’s.

It feels like I’m having some unpleasant consequences of a non-positive attitude in life.

So while exploring Batumi why not to list here all the countries and cities I ever visited abroad?

I am convinced that creative work and basically any work requires being organized and disciplined, even though there’s a strong preconception that creative tasks want us to be inspired first while leaving discipline, focus and concentration behind.