Dmytro Strelchyn

Dmytro Strelchyn

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👋 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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  • May 30, 2025

    Love data, question everything it tells you

    Love data, question everything it tells you

    I’m obsessed with data, but I don’t trust it blindly.Especially when the interpretation comes from a corporation or the media. Take this chart, for example: You can truthfully say that China and India have either the least educated or the… more

  • May 29, 2025

    My first fiction book since school

    My first fiction book since school

    Even though I read a lot, this is officially my first fiction book since I was a teenager.For a long time, I didn’t see the point of fiction. I preferred learning from non-fiction, something useful I could apply right away.… more

  • May 28, 2025

    Two Kobe’s quotes about focus and commitment

    Two Kobe’s quotes about focus and commitment

    I played competitive basketball throughout my childhood years. Like many kids, I looked up to the greats for inspiration, one of whom was Kobe Bryant. I don’t fully share his mindset or the famous Mamba mentality (and maybe that’s for… more

  • May 26, 2025

    B.R.I.D.G.E. 🌉 How to say the hard truths and keep trust

    B.R.I.D.G.E. 🌉 How to say the hard truths and keep trust

    Some things aren’t taught in an MBA.Like how to say something tough, but necessary. Being brutally honest, while staying respectful and constructive, is a skill every great leader must master. Here’s a simple framework that helps: BRIDGE. 💬 Background –… more

  • May 23, 2025

    Good Day today

    Good Day today

    Today is an important day, as I’m starting to work on a project that, in my opinion, aligns deeply with my values, beliefs, and passions. Let’s see where this journey takes me. more

  • May 21, 2025

    MY 18 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ARE OUTDATED

    MY 18 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ARE OUTDATED

    MY 18 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ARE OUTDATED A year ago, this disturbing thought came to me. It’s a strange and completely new feeling. Over the last 18 years in tech, e-commerce, and digital, I always thought I was at the… more

  • May 20, 2025

    The environmental cost of being polite to AI

    The environmental cost of being polite to AI

    Sam Altman recently tweeted that OpenAI might be spending tens of millions of dollars on electricity… just to process polite messages like please and thank you in ChatGPT. That got me thinking.What’s the environmental cost of kindness in the age… more

  • May 19, 2025

    Biggest threat of software business

    Biggest threat of software business

    For decades, business software was the dream of entrepreneurs.You find a niche. You build a SaaS product. You get an average 70% margin.You take a portion of your profits, hire smart engineers, and turn those investments into a barrier for… more

  • May 16, 2025

    Earned exhaustion: when you tired but proud

    Earned exhaustion: when you tired but proud

    It’s a feeling I’ve had a thousand times, but I didn’t know it had a name: Earned exhaustion.It’s when you enjoy your tiredness. What is earned exhaustion?It’s when you feel tired because you did something meaningful.You worked hard, gave your… more

  • May 13, 2025

    You choose how to use technology

    You choose how to use technology

    Reminder to myself: more

  • May 9, 2025

    It feels like playing Doom

    It feels like playing Doom

    Sometimes I feel like I’m inside the game Doom —wandering through a maze of rooms. The more I work and deliver projects, the more doors start to open. Some rooms lead nowhere.Some hold tools you’ll need for the journey.Some are… more

  • May 8, 2025

    Reflections after finishing the book Sapiens

    Reflections after finishing the book Sapiens

    In four simple words: dot-connecting, eye-opening. This was the first long book where I fully applied the principles of slow reading, which I described here. One of the core principles of Slow Reading is to invest time in choosing what… more

  • May 7, 2025

    A wake-up call from a $1B CEO

    A wake-up call from a $1B CEO

    I absolutely loved this email from Fiverr’s CEO (a $1B company).It’s a brilliant message — brutally honest, and written with real care.(Those are the two qualities I admire most in leaders) And every word resonates with my current mission —… more

  • April 30, 2025

    Most impactful training in my life

    Most impactful training in my life

    You never know which training might change your life. This is the story of one that changed my mindset and the choices I made after. It was September 2023. I sat in a sunny room in Lille, thinking it was… more

  • April 22, 2025

    My Top 3 challenges in building a business (after corporate life)

    My Top 3 challenges in building a business (after corporate life)

    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

  • April 14, 2025

    Slow Reading — A way to learn deeper and enjoy it more

    Slow Reading — A way to learn deeper and enjoy it more

    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

  • April 9, 2025

    How generations speak Emoji differently

    How generations speak Emoji differently

    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

  • April 8, 2025

    6 reasons why the world isn’t powered by Solar panels?

    6 reasons why the world isn’t powered by Solar panels?

    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

  • April 7, 2025

    From hunger to obesity

    From hunger to obesity

    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

  • April 4, 2025

    How to identify a Smart Idiot? (Spoiler: cruelty)

    How to identify a Smart Idiot? (Spoiler: cruelty)

    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

  • April 3, 2025

    AI reshaped business rules

    AI reshaped business rules

    Reminder to myself: The game has changed. Playing by the old rules is a losing strategy. more

  • April 2, 2025

    Revenue ≠ Profit

    Revenue ≠ Profit

    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

  • March 28, 2025

    How fragile the bank credit system is

    How fragile the bank credit system is

    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

  • March 26, 2025

    The Mississippi Bubble

    The Mississippi Bubble

    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

  • March 21, 2025

    About Opium Wars and US elections 2024

    About Opium Wars and US elections 2024

    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

  • March 20, 2025

    Product ≠ Business

    Product ≠ Business

    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

  • March 19, 2025

    Shoshin: beginner’s mindset

    Shoshin: beginner’s mindset

    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

  • March 18, 2025

    AI and biotech: the last hope for economy

    AI and biotech: the last hope for economy

    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

  • March 17, 2025

    Amazing and terrifying footage

    Amazing and terrifying footage

    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

  • March 14, 2025

    Reminder: Make it real first, perfect it later

    Reminder: Make it real first, perfect it later

    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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