Dmytro Strelchyn
Sense instead of rules
👋 Hi, I’m Dima — entrepreneur and former Chief Digital Officer at Decathlon CZ (more about me). I believe solopreneurs leveraging AI will soon take over the market, and I’m here to prove it.
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As someone who left the corporate world to build a business, I can honestly share my top 3 downsides of being an entrepreneur. 1. Financial uncertainty In corporate life, every month you get that lovely SMS: DING – salary’s in.As… more
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Last year, I started using the Slow Reading method. To my surprise, it worked better than I expected. Compared to my usual fast-paced reading, it gave me some real benefits:– I could focus on the book better.– I remembered more.–… more
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Surprise: Gen Z isn’t the intern anymore. They’re running meetings, pitching products, and maybe even managing you. They’re already in your office and your inbox. You probably want to communicate with them without drama. But here’s the problem: what feels… more
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Our planet spins around a giant ball of energy called the sun 🌞. Every day, it sends us 6,000 times more energy than we actually need. Sunlight reaching Earth equals 3.8 million exajoules each year.With all our giant cities, mega… more
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Long ago, people feared one thing — hunger. They worked hard on farms, prayed for rain, and still didn’t always have enough to eat. Food meant staying alive, not having fun. Hunger was one of the main causes of death.… more
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Good speech by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do not do that thing.” “The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”… more
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Reminder to myself: The game has changed. Playing by the old rules is a losing strategy. more
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To earn $1M, you need: Many businesses run at a loss for years. Sometimes by choice, like Amazon, Facebook, and Uber. More often, it’s due to ignorance. My approach is straightforward: Focus on profitability from day one and every day… more
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A bank does not need $10 million to give $10 million in loans. It only needs $1 million, your trust, and a little bit of math. When you deposit $1 million, the bank keeps a small part and lends the… more
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Interesting story, I didn’t know about one of the first financial bubble. In the early 1700s, a man named John Law had a big idea. He convinced the French government to let him create the Mississippi Company. People thought it… more
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The First Opium War is an example of capitalism’s bad influence on empires. This war was not just a fight between Britain and China. It was a war for money. In the early 1800s, British traders sold a lot of… more
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Here’s the Vibe Coding curve in Google Trends. You don’t need to be an oracle to predict the flood of non-technical, idea-driven people rushing into software and SaaS. People like me, honestly. The barriers of technical expertise and high development… more
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I’d like to share an idea I discovered last year that has been helping me a lot — Shoshin, or the beginner’s mind In the 1990s, Phil Jackson took the concept of Shoshin from Zen Buddhism and made it a… more
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In the last 15 years, banks and governments have flooded the market with massive amounts of dollars, yens, yuans, and euros. Global crises slow down the economy, so governments flood the system with cheap credit, printing trillions with little to… more
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If you’re following the war in Ukraine, the long-term scenario of these shows turning into real military training isn’t hard to picture. more
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Just a small (but huge) reminder to myself: Make it real first, perfect it later. (The daily battle of a perfectionist) more
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I write these notes to absorb what I’ve learned from books and organize it better in my head. The Power of Science and Its Impact on Human Civilization If a Spanish peasant had fallen asleep in the year 1000 and… more
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In today’s tech world, you might hear terms like LLMs, agents, agentic systems, workflows. And it could be really confusing sometimes. Let’s break these down in simple terms and see how they’re used. LLMs LLMs (Large Language Models) are advanced… more
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Layoffs are becoming more frequent in 2025, and I fear this is just the beginning. Here’s why: Two spirals are twisting into one big negative loop, making corporate and government jobs increasingly unsafe: economic & tech. 1. EconomicAfter the COVID-era… more
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The founders’ quotes at the beginning were the best part: Notes from video: more
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In 1957, Eugene Kleiner and seven engineers left Shockley Semiconductor. With a $1.5 million investment, they started Fairchild Semiconductor and became the founders of Silicon Valley. The “Traitorous 8” built more than one company. Their ideas led to Intel, AMD,… more
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In 2024, I started tracking my time and logged 4’242 hours of my active life. I want to share what I’ve learned along the way, how I analysed and used data to improve efficiency and quality of life. Ever feel… more
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When I feel a bit lost, I revisit my saved tweets to refocus on the basics. This is one of them: more
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Self-efficacy is believing in your ability to achieve a goal or handle a situation. It affects how you think, feel, and act. Albert Bandura, who is one of the most influential psychologists in history introduced the concept in A Social… more
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Attention! New captain. REALPOLITIK! more
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You better be a lazy bum today.But curious enough to automate your work or let AI take over. Because tomorrow, the only ones getting paid will be those who know how to replace people with automation. more
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Kongo Gumi was the oldest company in the world, surviving for over 1,400 years. A Japanese family business, it had been building temples since 578 AD. For centuries, its success rested on the steady demand for Buddhist temples. Generous donations… more
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In the last 500 years, humanity made a huge leap. This was thanks to the scientific revolution. Governments invested in science, providing the resources and support needed for progress. With these investments, inventions flourished, leading to new businesses. These businesses… more
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The future is here 🤯 It’s long been predicted that most business communication will shift to AI representatives—and this video shows how it’ll all work. Two AI agents quickly recognize each other. Then they switch from spoken English to a… more
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I’ve always thought of word agency in the business sense—like a marketing agency that provides services or a legal agency where one party acts on behalf of another. But I’d never considered it in the context of personal agency. In… more