a personal landing — chapter 00
The other
side of things.
I'm Paul. I look for what everyone else stopped asking about — the questions.
22, from Minsk. Four languages. Eight years in the ring. A working obsession with how psychology, society and hidden mechanisms actually run things.
Most lenses pretend to be the truth. Pick the option that feels most you — the rest of this page will quietly speak your language.
When something feels 'normal', you assume…
Not a CV. The shortest honest version of how I started seeing things this way.
beat 01
Minsk, 2004. Default setting around here is to read every confident headline twice and ask: who paid for it, and what's been left out? Twenty-two years in, that habit doesn't switch off — and most of what I write starts there.
Minsk, 2004. Default setting around here is to read every confident headline twice and ask: who paid for it, and what's been left out? Twenty-two years in, that habit doesn't switch off — and most of what I write starts there.
beat 02
Belarusian by birth — both Belarusian and Russian are state languages here, so the first two come with the country. English at six. German at eighteen. Each one frames the same thought a little differently. Once you've watched one idea wear four costumes, it gets harder to take any single one too seriously — including your own.
beat 03
Started kickboxing in 2017. The ring teaches what books can't fake: how fast people drop principles under real pressure, how the body decides 200ms before the brain catches up, what discipline actually costs you on a Wednesday morning. Most of the frameworks I trust about people came from there, not from a textbook.
beat 04
Day job is convincing people. Side obsession is shipping software with AI faster than entire teams used to. Both jobs taught me the same lesson: most rules everyone obeys are scaffolding nobody dared to remove. (Public profile, if you care to verify.)
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Psychology, society, the small print of how the world actually runs, things four languages all manage to say slightly wrong. From an angle most of your feed isn't pointed at. If anything I write starts to feel like a take you've heard already — close the tab. That's the deal.
Four things I can't stop noticing. Each card opens onto a thought most feeds quietly skip.
I write from the spot most of your feed treats as a footnote. That changes the questions. It changes which "obvious" things still look obvious.
You don't need a manifesto for this — it's mostly an angle. But angles compound.
RU · EN · DE · BY
four operating systems in one head
8+ years sparring
another way of testing ideas
marketing × ai
two professions arguing inside one job
53.9°N · 27.5°E
the seat I'm typing from
- London
- New York
- São Paulo
- Mumbai
- Singapore
- Tokyo
- Sydney
Tap the option you think is closest to the truth. There's only ever one good answer — but the wrong ones are interesting too.
Your gut hosts roughly 500 million neurons — and 90% of your serotonin lives there, not in your head.
What does this say about 'thinking'?
One US dollar in 2026 has about 3% of the buying power it had in 1913.
Who, mechanically, benefits from this engineered loss?
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year — 1929.
What does that compress?
- 01
another scroll
→ another angle
- 02
the same takes
→ where the takes come from
- 03
what people say
→ what their words quietly do
- 04
history as a list of dates
→ history as a still-running script
- 05
rules you obey
→ rules you can finally see
Same world. Different resolution.
in the gym
kickboxing · since 2017
berlin, '25
language number four
minsk, home base
where it all started
milano, lunch hour
the slow part of the week
the small fuel
what mornings actually look like
the ring
what the body learns first
early flight
outsider habits
Long-form podcasts, 15-minute cuts, a slow travel diary across a country most westerners have never thought about properly. No politics theater — culture, history, conversations. Mike and I, no script, in english.
paul
host · 22
mike
host · co-pilot
Russians abroad create stereotypes nobody recognizes
Belarus is the real heir to medieval Lithuania
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Two feeds, one head. Short loops on Instagram. Long conversations on YouTube. Pick either — or both. Unfollow whenever it stops being useful. That's the deal.