Author: Роман Петров — 786
Fairy Tales · Leadership · Motivation
When you want to stop wanting to want something.
A crisis is when you don’t want anything, and then you start wanting to want something. That’s fine, but when you don’t even want to want something, that’s a crisis.…
Biological or chemical weapons
For some time, we lived in an old house that was built in the early 20th century. It used to be a printing house before being converted into a residential…
A gnat in amber
In this story, all names, events, places, and linguistic analogies have been altered beyond recognition for political reasons. Nevertheless, the people whose story I am telling are just as influential…
The Sorcerer’s Trail
Once, I had an acquaintance. I would never have met him under normal circumstances, as we were involved in very different things, but somehow I was lucky to know him.…
Fairy Tales · Leadership · Motivation
Black Sea sabre-toothed fish
A pioneer camp in Crimea on the southern coast. It’s the largest after Artek and some camp called Orlyonok, but those are more like “multi-camps,” while this one is a…
Leadership · Motivation · Politics
Dogs on a leash
It is often heard that all dog owners should be required to keep their dogs on a leash. There is a call for special laws, and if such laws already…
Fairy Tales · Information · Motivation · Politics
The world of Harry Potter
The world of Harry Potter, as described by J.K. Rowling, illustrates a modern layperson’s understanding of science and the scientific process quite well. Magical knowledge is found in certain special…
400 things a child should know
Determination Often, delayed rewards are greater than immediate ones. Much greater. The world around you will constantly tempt you with a treat now instead of a meal later. Cartoons instead…
Leadership · Management · Motivation · Quotes
Well-formulated result
The HSR technique is designed to: a) Exclude absolutely all undesirable scenarios for achieving your goal. What kind of undesirable scenarios are we talking about? For example, when you requested…
Little Raccoon and the One Who Sits in the Pond
Fairy Tale by Lilian Moore (pen name, Sara Asheron; March 17, 1909 – July 20, 2004) Translation by O. Obraztsova, 1966. Little Raccoon was small but brave. One day, Mama…
All around, there are nothing but scammers!
In our residence, the postal workers often leave packages under the gate if they can’t reach the owner by phone. That’s how one of the packages ended up in the…
A Jew from Fez
Fes is a city in Morocco that the French quickly added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. Yes, the medina of the old cities in Morocco is unique. It features…
What’s the difference?
When I was little, I had Jewish relatives. They were the daughters of my great-grandmother’s sister, who helped my grandmother get a job at the Transsignal factory in Kyiv. My…
Social awkwardness
One of the main complaints I hear from Nastya is that sometimes I can say something that makes everyone feel awkward and embarrassed. And yes, it turns out that I…
Delicacies
“What do we have today?” Zeph asked, pulling on his T-suit. Of course, he knew what “we have today,” and Gap knew that Zeph knew. But Zeph enjoyed asking the…
Law of Conservation of Information
(Written based on my theses by the GPT-4 system, because I’m lazy) At the quantum level, it is believed that information cannot be lost. One example that has made scientists…
Dogs and the Subjectivity of Justice
Case No. 1 We needed a shelf of a specific size. But they don’t sell those. There are some that are wider, shorter, or taller. Then I find the exact…
The Dream of a Muscovite
If I were to ask you to list the characteristic elements of Ukrainian culture, the average Ukrainian would pause for a moment and come up with a list like this:…
General Line
Part One. The Running Champion. Kostya was the champion of Kyiv in running. Just once. A tall, lanky, smart Jewish boy. He always boasted that he could run fast and…
Like flies
There is a newspaper called “Evening Kyiv.” Once, during the USSR era, it was a sort of social and Soviet evening paper featuring editorials, articles of interest to the locals,…