Alexey Guzey

Writing as moats for humans 4 minutes read — 24 Aug 2025

Most writing on the internet is AI-writing now. The dark forest theory of internet, a re-hash of a concept popularised by the sci-fi author, Cixin Liu referring to this hostile digital landscape where most content is written by the bots, and to escape from this cybernetic fake-ness, users retreat to hidden, invite-only "private" communities to escape this chaos. We live in this hostile. digital....

Writing is thinking 8 minutes read — 02 Jan 2025

My blog has had a median of ~2 visitors per day for almost two years (nowadays, it's only a marginal improvement). And I don't care. Writing is thinking. And this blog has served as a public notepad well enough. As Alexey Guzey points out — perhaps the best indicator of your online writing having benefits is when you are not too embarassed to tell people. "Oh, BTW, I wrote about this/collected...

Read writers who operate 6 minutes read — 29 Dec 2024

We have more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds, and books on ornithologists written by birds. Taleb eloquently describes this as the key problem of knowledge, or in other words as epistemic arrogance. Strong corollary can be drawn with various disciplines, including entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs simply spend more time doing entrepreneurship rather...