I build several projects in parallel, with AI agents. Here's what's live and what's in progress BOOKOV A reading app and personal library ✅ iOS app, now with free public-domain libraries: bookov.app/ios ✅ Web app: web.bookov.app ✅ Landing: bookov.app 🟠 Android app KARDO Language learning with flashcards. Turns any content, even live lessons with a tutor, into flashcard sets: the bot joins the lesson, figures out from context which words you need to review and makes cards with translations ✅ Web app: kardo.cards ✅ Telegram bot: t.me/kardocards_bot 🟠 iOS app LYRA A new kind of yacht broker: it doesn't sell you a yacht, it helps you buy the one that fits you. A curated catalog of 1000+ yachts with full specs and a cost-of-ownership calculator, in 7 languages ✅ Catalog: lyra.yachts ✅ Yachting sign-language dictionary 🟠 iOS app 🟠 AI agents ZHURNALUS My media with a 10-year history, published by Art. Lebedev Studio. I'm the editor-in-chief, and now I'm building its mobile apps too 🟠 iOS app RADARIC A smart feed reader (RSS, Telegram channels, X and more) that filters the stream by your brief, learns from your feedback and merges posts about the same thing ✅ Web app: radaric.pro META All of this runs on my dev system of agents, skills, docs and harness settings. Some of the skills are public: github.com/kirillgreen/skill… I don't build any of this alone: everywhere except Radaric I have partners and colleagues. But the design and development are mostly or entirely mine

The asymmetry of how ideas spread It seems like correct ideas should spread and incorrect ones shouldn't. That smart and deserving people should rise to the top. That the ones climbing the career ladder should be the ones who do their job brilliantly As if correct ideas, meaning ones rooted in objective reality, that objectively work and bring benefit, should beat ideas that are wrong and do harm But nothing of the sort happens in reality. Ideas don't spread in an ideal universe, they spread among people, that is, in their heads and their communities, so the ideas that spread are the ones that look convincing (aka exploit human cognitive biases), fit the dominant narrative and don't threaten the status quo too much. Ideas, even correct ones, that aren't presented convincingly, that go against the narrative and the status quo, don't take root or are even aggressively rejected It often happens that an idea is harmful from the point of view of the interests of the individual, the family, the local community, the city and the entire Homo species, yet gets mass adoption. Communism, for example. In the form it was attempted in the 20th century, this idea is deeply mistaken. Many understood that in advance. And by the 1920s Mises and Hayek had already published the works showing the structural problems of a planned economy. But the idea of "to each according to his needs" is so strong and contagious, sells so well, that even tens of millions of victims weren't enough for humanity to reliably learn the idea is wrong, and it is still alive today Or take the idea that a person who earns more than others should also pay more taxes into the common treasury (Why should you pay more in exchange for access to the same amount of goods as everyone else? Dangerous question, don't ask it). This approach creates negative incentives for everyone who wants to invent, create and build, meaning the idea works against the growth of prosperity for individuals, groups, whole cities and countries, yet it has spread across the entire planet. Moreover, in many territories an even more perverse version of this idea wins, where the one who earns more has to pay a larger percentage (!) of their income into the common treasury. The idea is absolutely insane, but it wins Correct and working ideas are often so counterintuitive and contradict our knowledge of the world so much that they struggle to make their way into people's minds. They don't look convincing, despite being correct. And they need a long time to take root. There are plenty of examples here too. The (now) famous Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis and the even more famous English physician John Snow, who struggled to push the ideas that doctors' hands and water need to be clean, otherwise people die. Ludwig Boltzmann, who was hounded by major scientists for the idea of atoms. The ideas that slavery is unacceptable, that the sexes are equal, spontaneous order, all from the same basket I find it very interesting to think about this in relation to myself and to today. Surely some of the ideas I accept, I accept not because they are (as it seems to me) correct, but because they are convincing. And some of the ideas I reject are correct but counterintuitive and not convincing enough Some of the ideas about the world that are mainstream today will be recognized as wrong in the future I think it's very important to develop the skill of telling correct ideas from convincing ones. And on the other hand, it seems no less important to be able to present your ideas and your work as convincingly as possible. It's not enough to be right, it's not enough to do good work, it's fundamentally important to also be able to talk about it convincingly This fundamental asymmetry is the reason we so often watch promotions go not to the people who do the work well, but to the people who talk about it convincingly. And success in business goes not necessarily to the people who make the best product, but to those who talk about it most convincingly IN SHORT: let's train ourselves to tell correct ideas from beautiful and pleasant ones, and to present our own convincingly