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• 2025-07-16 Անխելք Մարդը և Չտեսությունը 🪞

  Առաջ մտածում էի, որ սա իսկապես խելք չունի, ախր ամբողջը իր աչքի դիմացն է։ Ու շատ մեր ազգի պահվածքին էի նույնացնում։ Հիմա հասկանում եմ, որ մեր անխելք մա...

• 2025-05-28 Am I Growing? 🌱

  Since I’ve started my journey of entrepreneurship, I’ve been doing podcasts, creating communities, and organizing meetups. Did I grow? I t...

• 2025-05-20 1 EURO for a Ride 💶

  To become a taxi driver, you must possess a driver’s license, purchase a car for at least 2500 EURO, maintain the vehicle, buy fuel, and pay fee...

• 2025-05-18 Eurovision and context 🏆️

  Yesterday, I watched Eurovision. It’s clear that everyone wants their country to win, while some countries hope others don’t win. Neighbor...

• 2025-05-16 Spending 5 Minutes to Make a Point 📌

  This blog post is an exercise. I want to make a point, and for that, I will need to do some research and tell a story. Telling a story Henry Ford was ...

• 2025-05-14 Non technical founders, Visionary Builders Community 👯‍♀️

  This is my third community. I’m starting to understand how it works. People with similar interests or challenges tend to have similar insights a...

• 2025-05-13 2nd CTO Event Is Soon 🪞

  What’s about it? I host Armenian CTO Community. We have already 109 members there. First event hosted 21 members! I am doing this for over 9 mo...

• 2025-05-12 Reducing the Friction to Post 🌪️

  Eliminating the reasons I don’t blog, one by one. Opening the editor is a friction, writing is a friction, pushing is a friction, but I can make...

• 2025-05-07 Consistency and Time ⏲️

  Do I have time to blog? Every time I wrote I will blog every day, I’ve reflected on this commitment in several posts: In I Need to Revisit My Bl...

• 2024-12-29 Then the Journey Is Not About Winning 🏆️

  Winning is the target, but the journey is never about winning. You cannot be sure the path is correct. Even with guidance, there is a chance it’...

• 2024-12-28 Free Consultancy 💆🏻

  Nobody buys it. When I provide it everyone is happy. Why? Maybe people don’t understand the offer, which is completely understandable. What I of...

• 2024-12-28 The Algorithm of the Dressings 🥬➕🥕➕❓️🟰🥗

  Martun said he read many books about healthy food and didn’t become healthy. I agree, that reading and doing is very different. But I think that...

• 2024-12-25 Powered.community Meetup 🤝🏻

  Well, it happened. The food was sushi, and people came with friends, some just checking in. I was so glad to see so many people I know and don’t...

• 2024-12-23 5 Books to Read Before 2025 to Transform Your Life 📚️

  People are not computers, though we share traits such as short and long-term memory or processing power. You cannot install a “software” o...

• 2024-12-21 Ikigai 🥚

  Opportunities come and go, but sometimes there is THAT opportunity. It makes my heart sing, puts me in sync with what I live for, and creates purpose ...

• 2024-12-19 Piece Is Pressure

  We are not in a hot war right now, but it’s always over the corner. Many countries are in hot wars at this moment, what do they tell us? What wo...

• 2024-12-17 I Met My Mentor 🦉

  My mentor probably doesn’t know she is my mentor. And I understood some things. I did a lot of analysis. She told me about the start stop and co...

• 2024-12-17 I'm Still Learning 🐇

  I find myself suggesting the right solutions, right for me. And when I see that the pattern doesn’t match, I get sad. It’s hard to acknowl...

• 2024-12-13 Rushing the Process Doesn't Help ⌛️

  I’ve started too late, because of that I have more knowledge from the field. I have been learning these past 4 years, but starting something by ...

• 2024-12-12 Hello world Again 🗺️

  Long time no blog. WTF is happening? Writing a blog is too important for me, when I don’t write a blog I don’t analyze as much. Sometimes ...

• 2024-11-15 What Would You Do if It Wasn't for Money? 💱

  What is money? For some it’s freedom. Freedom of choice. For me it’s an equivalent of “ability”. It’s like the magic wa...

• 2024-11-12 First, Rewrite🐇

  I start to see patterns. I start to see how people work. Not sure how deep I see. I don’t want to exploit people. I don’t want to MAKE peo...

• 2024-11-11 It's Not About Sales 💆🏻

  For me it’s always about how can I help people, if I can’t or if my help is insufficient I would not push. I will push to know the reason ...

• 2024-11-09 Push Push Push Breathe 🌬️

  Am I pushing enough? Am I breathing enough? I do :) There is never enough, there is always enough. Having multiple heats it’s hard to find a bal...

• 2024-11-08 Am I Productive? 🧨

  Do you feel I’m productive? Are you productive? Is productive about fast results? Is productive about the process? I’m not sure anymore, b...

• 2024-11-07 One Week Later ⌛️

  Last week was awful, I didn’t have time to breathe. This week is not much better. But we have progress. I have about 3k impressions in 2 days on...

• 2024-10-28 Engineering Solution to Every Problem ⚙️

  As an engineer, I strive to find engineering solutions to every problem surrounding me, engineering doesn’t mean technical in this case. There a...

• 2024-10-27 I'm Going to Invest in Podcasting More 🎤

  Podcasting is discovery It’s listening to so many familiar and different ideas and being able to ask questions, where people can answer you liv...

• 2024-10-26 Scooping Motivation 🍦💩

  For me, motivation is being on the edge. I need to feel that what I do is important to do, at that exact moment. (Probably because of my ADHD) There i...

• 2024-10-24 Reflection on My Journey 🔭

  You can recover your journey from the history of my blog posts if you have been following, though you also probably know that I don’t need peopl...

• 2024-10-22 A Step a Day Adds Up to a Mile 🚶🏻‍♂️

  I had a meeting with important people. All people are important, these ones are important to me. This was my target a couple of months ago, does this ...

• 2024-10-21 Toastmaster 🍷

  I was at a party another day, there was a toastmaster, he was doing his job. I’m not here to judge but to observe. Toastmasters’ direct mo...

• 2024-10-19 The Meaning 🌬️

  I wrote about this again, but investing time in meaningful connections is crucial. It’s not just spending; it’s a real investment. You can...

• 2024-10-18 Complexity in Multi-model Architectures 📊

  I can move from cities and even to countries with a single backpack and or a single hanger with a couple of clothes, be able to attend the event, and ...

• 2024-10-18 Buying Problems 📛

  I must always remember that buying into any relationship, be that business, employment, or personal once, you are always buying problems first. It&rsq...

• 2024-10-16 Every Company Is Different 🤦🏻‍♂️

  Doing the podcasts I talk to different friends from tech and other industries. There are so many approaches, and so many different opinions, there is ...

• 2024-10-15 Lazy Art 🎨

  Art is something you do more not less, but what if you generate NFTS, is it lazy art? You do more but with code. Are you making more art? If you creat...

• 2024-10-14 Tribute to Mothers Part 3? 🤱🏻

  Again I’m alone, this is hard. Though I don’t consider myself a passive father, being 2 parents is a bit much, and it’s hard as much...

• 2024-10-13 Weekends ⭐️

  Yesterday, I spent the day picking pears and sleeping. Today, I spent the day caring for the baby and trying to rest; I can’t rest with a small ...

• 2024-10-12 I Fell Out of the Internet for Today 🌐

  My phone is broken and My current phone is a Banana Nokia. I spent half of the day sleeping and another half picking pears from the ground and cooking...

• 2024-10-11 Life Lessons 🎒

  My phone broke down so I couldn’t post shorts on YouTube, today I spent time running Android on my laptop. Well, Weydroid ran with a plain Andro...

• 2024-10-10 Podcasting Is Fun 🪃

  But it’s hard work.:) You need to try to engage with the person you are doing a podcast with! It’s good but hard. Tomorrow I don’t h...

• 2024-10-09 Finally Back

  My phone broke down and I still don’t have a phone, I was at DIGITECH and WCIT. WCIT was meh, but Digitech was something from another world. I h...

• 2024-10-06 WCIT: I Almost Know Why People Don't Buy From Me 💸

  In the first part of the event, I asked people what they do and what challenges they have, but it’s kind of hard. People are not ready to expose...

• 2024-10-04 Digitech 2024 〰️

  The event was great. If you have time, please attend. There are so many great companies presenting what they do. So many people to talk to. This time ...

• 2024-10-03 Branding for the Consultancy, challenge! 🏤

  I had an idea about the logo and mascot for the powered-by.love consultancy. So it is an iterative process, and I thought that it would be easy to do ...

• 2024-10-01 Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts🎙️

  I love doing them. Today was the second episode, and it was a good one, I have 2 more next week and we’ll see what happens. https://www.youtube....

• 2024-09-30 Podcasting Has Started!🎙️

  I have recorded yet 1 podcast and have 12 subs on YouTube organically, and it’s good. The secret is I was bringing traffic from LinkedIn and mak...

• 2024-09-29 Recovering E-Waste 🌿

  Right now I’m trying to install Windows 10 on a MacBook laptop from 2014, it is not “supported” anymore, but its hardware is much be...

• 2024-09-28 Apparently Posting Personal Things Really Helps 🙇🏻‍♂️

  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruben-kh_emerge-activity-7245069660134526977-riyC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop this post has received a l...

• 2024-09-27 What I Learned From Emerge 🦩

  This couple of days I was going to Emerge. And this is what I learned. I’ve created the framework of how to approach people and when you want to...

• 2024-09-25 Never Say Its Free 🤑: Emerge day 1

  My consultancy https://powered-by.love/ has a “Love Guarantee” which means that if in a month of our service for any reason, you are not s...

• 2024-09-25 Emerge Conference: pre-party / networking 0 🌱

  I went to Emerge, it’s tough to network with people you don’t know, so this time I had the following strategy. Approach a person who stand...

• 2024-09-23 follow the rabbit 🐇

  I will go to conferences, and talk to people, introduce my services, and what I can do for them, I hope I will find words to wrap my thoughts around t...

• 2024-09-20 I Need to Revisit My Blogs ⌛️

  I try to write every day, blog posts are learnings. I write my observation from the day, from another day, or generally. But if it’s a learning ...

• 2024-09-19 When Was the Last Time You Turned of Your "Device"? 📳

  When was the last time you turned off your “device”? I wake up and take the device, I go to sleep holding the device, I use it while I wor...

• 2024-09-18 Continuing to Talk to People and a Podcast 🧩

  I have talked to people, exposed myself, and told them what I wanted to do. Today, I did a podcast—not the open-source one, but one about TDD for the ...

• 2024-09-17 I Forget To do Photos With People 🤳🏻

  In my journey to promote my consultancy and promoting my foundation I meet with a ton of people. People who want to help me, people who are ready to s...

• 2024-09-16 Today I Have Done Things 🦩

  I have made 2 LinkedIn posts, I have talked to a potential client, I have formatted a computer, I have talked to people I want to podcast with, I have...

• 2024-09-15 Being a Mother Is Much Harder Than Being a Father: Part 2 👼🏻👼🏻

  It’s exhausting. Picking up a child constantly during the day, it’s intensive physical labor + not sleeping = being continually tired, I w...

• 2024-09-14 Are You Consistent? ⁉️

  I tend not to write blogs on some days, mostly when I’m too tired or busy with guests. Is this a good enough reason? I will not answer this ques...

• 2024-09-13 Confirmation Bias ✅

  What is it? When you jump to a conclusion and try confirm your point of view search for things that confirm your beliefs. Why it’s important? W...

• 2024-09-11 Getting Lectured by Children 🪃

  I was invited to an event, where I needed to give a talk to children from MEM Lori, I thought I was there to perform, but kids outperformed me. I was ...

• 2024-09-10 Corporations Issues With Escape Strategy ⚕️

  YouTube is lagging on my Firefox on Linux, I think it’s done on purpose, I think Google knows the power of YouTube on their lives and tries to m...

• 2024-09-09 You Don't Know What I Believe 🔔

  And this is the problem because if you did we wouldn’t ask me, so I need to write this so people understand my point, and how wrong I am. I genu...

• 2024-09-06 Data Fest: ML and data conference in Armenia 📊

  I don’t know much about data or ML or LLMs other under the hood. Despite that today I went to the conference. What I saw was incredible. Enthusi...

• 2024-09-05 How to Write a Forwardable Message 📧

  I need to introduce myself and busy people are willing to help me, but I need to write a forwardable message to “help them help me” The st...

• 2024-09-05 I'm Not Sure What Decisions Are Good ⚖️

  Every time, I write a blog post I see people engaging, but I can never guess which post is good, or which post will resonate with people. That is not ...

• 2024-09-03 Stress Makes Us Move 🏃🏻

  Stress is a normal reaction to change. My interpretation of what Gabor Maté says is that if your organism feels stress you need to act on it, and the ...

• 2024-09-01 The Change Is Terrifying 🕷️

  We were doing decluttering today. It was hard, it was 8 hours of continuous work. It was too hard. Change is scary, FOMO is real, what if I need this ...

• 2024-08-31 When People Listen 👂🏻

  Today I was in a meeting today. I was complaining about products and they listened. I was suggesting changes to the product and they listened. I was t...

• 2024-08-30 Goals in Life ⚽️

  Do you have a plan for the future? I’m not asking about a realistic one as the world is too volatile now I probably ask, do you have a vision? A...

• 2024-08-29 Clearly Defined Expectations in Interviews 🎯

  What if I interviewed with you, I asked you a bunch of questions from discrete math but was interviewing you for the cleaning person in the company? L...

• 2024-08-28 How We Dress Defines Who We Are 🥻

  I don’t think so, my wife does and she has a point. For me, my clothing is a statement, but it’s just a statement for me to emphasize my b...

• 2024-08-26 Making Shawarma Professionally Improves Short Term Memory? 🌯

  There is a game of n-back, which helps with short-term memory improvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back Yesterday I went to Tumanyan Shaurma, ...

• 2024-08-24 How Much for an Ad in Your Blog? 💸

  Do you want to buy an ad on my blog? You can’t and you never will be. This blog is not intended to serve anyone’s commercial success(maybe...

• 2024-08-22 My Bias Was Wrong Again 💭

  Today, I found a professional who specializes in secondary water treatment. My bubble intuition told me that there were probably no people in Armenia ...

• 2024-08-21 How to Serve a Customer 🍦

  Some of you know I have a consultancy https://powered-by.love (website is under construction) which provides consulting services as well as services f...

• 2024-08-20 Work Is Being Noticed from Far 🔭

  If you do something good, do it publicly, even if nobody will notice, people will notice. There is one caveat, your work should be public. It should b...

• 2024-08-19 Underappreciated Rest 🤖

  Everyone should rest: my coworkers, my family, my friends, everyone. But not me, I can go forever, I’m a nonstop motor. What? That can’t b...

• 2024-08-18 Self Expression is too important 🖌️

  For me, self-expression is writing, blogging, SVG art with Inkscape, or clothing choices. Everything I do is about what I care about, what I’m p...

• 2024-08-16 Changing the Habit ☕️

  I see people around me talking constantly, trying to change habits and prevent actions, but I believe it is impossible until you change your surroundi...

• 2024-08-15 Buying Shares for Problems 🤦🏻‍♂️

  I am involved in a project, where I bought shares for 7K, and it’s failing fast. I’m not alone, and many people are losing their money in ...

• 2024-08-14 Deadlines are meant to be Missed ⌛️

  Breakdown of a task understanding the task, including research implementing a task finalizing the task Do these describe all tasks? Yes and No. Too ge...

• 2024-08-12 Being a Mother Is Much Harder Than Being a Father 👼🏻

  This is not about gender roles. My wife is not at home today, and I am to watch after our 1yo sun. I am an active father, but this task is tough. 2 ha...

• 2024-08-10 Spider Is Traveling Outside My Car 🕷️🚗

  2 months ago I found it, weaving webs outside my window. In my opinion, it’s not the best place to do so. Generally, I don’t travel too mu...

• 2024-08-09 Environment Is Everything ⛈️

  What do we eat? Where do we walk? Who do we talk to every day? What do people around us believe in? When do you wake up? You are more shaped by the e...

• 2024-08-08 Red Lines, Gray Lines 🟥

  Imagine you went to a pool There are some good things, like good renovation clean water There are some issues Hangers are loose and fall out. The show...

• 2024-08-07 The Perceived Security ⚔️

  We feel secure if we are employed. We think that if we lock the door, no stranger will come inside. We feel that wars are always far away unless they...

• 2024-08-05 I Live in a Bubble 🫧

  I believe that I know the best. I believe that the best people surround me. I believe that I can change a small part of the world, and I hope that it...

• 2024-08-03 It's Hard to Be Responsible ⏳️

  In this era of increasing attention-grabbing, notifications, phones, and politics which all have some degree of influence on our lives it’s toug...

• 2024-08-02 Listening Is a Skill👂🏻

  Asking the right question is a skill. Being silent is a skill. My job is to listen, carefully. Most of the time people know the solutions to their pro...

• 2024-08-01 I Didn't Save a Man's Life Today

  But I’ve tried. I was doing CPR for 10 minutes until the ambulance arrived, but it was too late. It was probably too late when I started doing C...

• 2024-07-31 I Probably Should Hire a Branding Specialist 🖌️

  When I started get-sms, which I failed 😀 I wrote They Probably Thought They Will Hire a Designer Once They Have Some Money 🖌️💸 which I love. Today I h...

• 2024-07-30 Today I Registered My Consultancy 👯

  Today I registered my consultancy The site is not finally powered-by.love . I have 2 more potential clients and love powered LLC. I am ready for the b...

• 2024-07-29 The Most Valuable Asset 💝

  If you would ask me a couple of years ago what is the most valuable asset I have it would probably be “knowledge”, “languages”...

• 2024-07-28 Everything Has a Purpose 🦩

  I write a blog because I care I want you to care I want to put myself in the world I want you to read this I want to have a record history Sometimes I...

• 2024-07-27 Emotions Need to Be Expressed 👺

  2 days in a row I talk to friends and family members, who are suppressing their emotions. The result of this is emotional burnout, depression, and phy...

• 2024-07-25 Ignoring Soft Skills Is a Big Mistake 🍦

  Hard skills are essential in work, you cannot build anything without them. But we can’t ignore soft skills forever. Ignoring it fires back and i...

• 2024-07-24 The Client Is the One Who Pays You 💸

  I don’t have a client yet. I hope to have one by tomorrow, or next week. Talking to people is awesome, they tell me their problems, and if I can...

• 2024-07-23 Customer Goes First Again 🎒

  I wrote that I want to offer a consultancy service and know that the hero section of the website should sound something like this “We don’t only...

• 2024-07-22 What if Likes Cost Money 👍🏻->💸

  I have a crazy stupid startup idea that I will probably never do but I wanted to share it with you. And maybe it’s already done somewhere. Likes...

• 2024-07-22 If the World Ends 🧨

  If there is no more civilization, what skills do you need? Now that you have found yourself alone, you need survival skills, hunting, making fire, clo...

• 2024-07-20 Art Is More, Work is less 🖌️>💼

  I think Seth Godin said it but I can’t find a direct quote, it sounded something like this “Work is what you try to do less of, Art is wha...

• 2024-07-19 Is Learning Part of Work? 🤓

  When I worked at Crossover, in my first team, I spent 40% of my workday in video calls with engineers to take over the project. 60% of the time: learn...

• 2024-07-18 Challenge Complete in Less Than 48 Hours: Microsoftr 🎆

  It’s almost 28 hours.😅 Yesterday I started a challenge to create an open-source microsoftr = micro + softr. The point was that I didn’t ne...

• 2024-07-17 Creating a Complete Open Source Software Challenge in 48 Hours: Microsoftr👨🏻‍💻

  It’s bad timing, I need more time, but I need a deadline to make sure that I follow the deadline. The idea is: Inspired by softr․io which is a s...

• 2024-07-16 Consulting and implementation for Smaller Software Businesses 🗒️

  I will increase ownership and productivity among employees. I have 12 years of experience in the software engineering field. I am starting a consulti...

• 2024-07-14 The Right Tool for the Job 🔑

  Today, I dropped my car key in a compartment of my car. I spent almost 2 hours trying to fetch them, but I couldn’t, I didn’t have the too...

• 2024-07-13 It's all about acknowledgment and status 🏷️

  What is a status definition for me? It’s a way to measure acknowledgment, by one or many parties. In most cases, we assign labels to statuses. S...

• 2024-07-12 Video Distractions Are Everywhere 📽️

  Distractions are everywhere. All social media wants is to grab your attention. All algorithms do is present us with data we would like and engage, and...

• 2024-07-11 The Courage to Tell the Intentions 💪🏻

  When you want to make a change you need to be clear about it with everyone involved. Sometimes it’s not “fun” or “exciting&rdq...

• 2024-07-10 Medium Days 😶

  Some days are very productive. We love those. Some are unproductive. We hate those. And most of the days are somewhere in the middle. I think I don&rs...

• 2024-07-09 The Necessary Bureaucracy 🗒️

  We see unnecessary bureaucracy everywhere, how can we recognize it? Is paper needed just for the sake of having the paper, because 100 years ago someo...

• 2024-07-08 Patience in Negotiations 🦩

  We hope to close deals fast. But it’s not always possible. Today I was waiting for 3 hours to get a dialogue, but never got one. Sometimes we ca...

• 2024-07-07 Small City Neighborhoods 👯

  Neighborhoods in big cities are crowded. Most of the time you know only your nearest neighbors. There are no deep connections in most cases. But it do...

• 2024-07-06 My Dog Can't Swallow Pills 🐕‍🦺💊

  My dog has a problem with food, it isn’t motivated by it. What is worse, it’s very hard for him to swallow pills, the dog hates if one put...

• 2024-07-05 Hierarchy in and Fear 👺

  Companies require some hierarchy, there should be managers, higher management, technical management, etc… But what happens when people are afra...

• 2024-07-03 Is AI Programmer's Enemy Now? 🤖

  We may think AI is taking all the jobs, but it’s not true. I tried Copilot and it’s an awesome tool for developers, unfortunately, a propr...

• 2024-07-02 When People Want to Work With You, Another Attempt 💼

  When people who want to work with you. when they want to employ you when they want to work for you This is something that I’m proud of. I want t...

• 2024-07-01 Resistance and Alliance 🪨🤝🏻

  Change always meets resistance. If there is no resistance there is not enough change. The biggest problem we have now is the trust issues, I don&rsquo...

• 2024-06-30 Why Transformer Movies Suck 🤖

  Disclaimer, this is not my opinion, this was a conversation from yesterday with my friend Tigran. I am not too familiar with the topic but I love how ...

• 2024-06-29 Preparing for a Change 💅🏻

  We have been discussing this yesterday. Change-making is hard, but we need to prepare people for it, there will be resistance and it’s all about...

• 2024-06-28 Focusing with ADHD 🎯

  Recently I was consuming a lot of information. Did you notice it’s hard to focus? It’s hard to digest. It’s almost like you have a l...

• 2024-06-27 Why Hire Me? ⌨️

  UPDATED: I’m looking for a new job as an Fractional CTO / Engineering Manager or Full Stack Developer. I’m excited to find a place where I...

• 2024-06-26 Another Day Another Customer Interview🎙️

  Today I found out 3 trivial things People like free stuff, it’s hard to convince people to spend money Companies don’t need vitamin produc...

• 2024-06-25 Change Meets Resistance Once Again 🪨

  I went to a local library to do another iteration of renovation and reimagination of the library. We are bringing new furniture and having an issue on...

• 2024-06-24 Remote Work, Main Issue 🎧️

  Doing interviews around remote work, we have found 2 major problems that are present among the interviewees. Commuting for many is not an option. Peop...

• 2024-06-23 Friendship as an Investment 🪃

  Today I fixed 2 bicycles. I was not alone, 2 of my friends were with me. I wouldn’t do it alone, I spent almost a day with them, and I’m s...

• 2024-06-21 Rethinking Children's Books 🧒🏻

  Today I was reading “Puss in Boots” for my 1-year-old. Upon finishing my thought, what was the premise of this story? PR is really importa...

• 2024-06-20 When You Feel Something Is Hard, Go for It 🔨

  But not technically hard, emotionally hard. It’s hard, it’s really hard, but that’s the point. If you know it needs to be done, and ...

• 2024-06-19 Drifting From the Goal 🎯

  I have to do a lot of things during the day. I need to spend time with my family. I need to feed the dog. But what I need more is a plan for everythin...

• 2024-06-19 Spent Whole Day Doing a Test Task ✔️

  I’m very tired, the task was engaging and challenging. It took me more than 24 hours total. You can check it out here https://github.com/shekspi...

• 2024-06-17 My refrigerator broke down, again 🤦🏻‍♂️

  Maybe it’s bad luck but my refrigerator broke down, again.🤦🏻‍♂️ I bought a Skyworth refrigerator, it broke last year. And here is my timeline wi...

• 2024-06-16 Family as a Default Asset 👪️

  Today I spent the whole day with different members of my family. If we consider our life as a game, the default stats we would have would be our envir...

• 2024-06-15 Doing My First User Interview 🎤

  We did it, and it was awesome. During the interview, we discussed the topics around the product. Once again discovered how short-sighted I am. Everyon...

• 2024-06-14 Frustrations Around Hiring Process 🤕

  I have been hiring for 4 years now, and it’s time for me to get hired. My approach was simple, if a person was a cultural fit and was motivated,...

• 2024-06-14 Channeling Energy 🎇

  Today I and my wife went to a friend. She has a beautiful home which she made into an ethnic restaurant. She has a lot of pain and energy, she doesn&r...

• 2024-06-12 Power of New Connections 🌐

  Today I went to 4 IRL meetings and got connected to 10 new people to tell them about the Instepanavan Development Foundation instepanavan.am . I went ...

• 2024-06-09 Some Business Ideas I May Someday Explore So May You 👩🏻‍🔧

  I was thinking yesterday about these products. Very low-noise renovation machines very low noise renovation equipment I think whoever creates it may b...

• 2024-06-09 Knowing When and How to Rest 🌴

  A year back I discovered I didn’t know how to rest. I knew how to push it forward. I discovered that when I was asked how do I rest? And I was u...

• 2024-06-08 Knowing Your Customer 🦆

  I am fascinated that some successful businesses may not know or understand their customers. It happens when user feedback doesn’t reach the deci...

• 2024-06-07 Reflection: Validating Ideas and Failing Fast 👺👺

  I appreciate all the comments I’ve received. Obviously, the idea was raw, it was bad, and there was no user research done. Slack is an amazing p...

• 2024-06-07 Validating Ideas and Failing Fast at QLOONG👺

  Today(actually yesterday) I went to QLOONG, a place where people roast your ideas. https://www.facebook.com/events/3238335952965811/ I was not prepare...

• 2024-06-05 Another Blog About Podcast 🎙️🎙️

  Doing the hard part first. As an engineer, I tend to jump into solving problems. And it’s ok when I work on a project with clear architecture an...

• 2024-06-04 Next UI/UX Tool That Everyone Can Use 🎨

  Disclaimer: this article is opinionated. This blog post is either a startup idea or, an idea to join existing structure. Blender is all over the place...

• 2024-06-03 People Who Want to Work With You 📸

  A kid from our youth center came to me and told me that she wanted to do SMM for us. I asked her, what do you do? she told me, “photos, and movi...

• 2024-06-02 Shipping as a Muscle 💪🏻

  Not my best work or even close. It doesn’t matter if what I write is good, but it’s desirable, otherwise, it’s just doing for just d...

• 2024-06-01 You Cannot Teach Responsibility 🤌🏻

  It can be only given and taken. We need to trust people, trust them to make mistakes but also believe that person can succeed. Nearly every time I del...

• 2024-05-31 Starting Yet Another Podcast 🎤

  Is it something special? Probably not. But I’m passionate about it. If it is interesting, I would listen to it. If it would be interactive, I wo...

• 2024-05-30 I Hate Synchronous Communication. 💬

  It’s becoming more and more difficult to focus in this highly distractive world. A lot of noise and buzz, and groups and channels, and apps and ...

• 2024-05-29 They Probably Thought They Will Hire a Designer Once They Have Some Money 🖌️💸

  I was talking to my wife recently about https://get-sms.app, and she asked - don’t you want to hire a designer for it? For which my answer was, ...

• 2024-05-28 Reflection: You Can't Learn to Draw Only by Watching Videos 🪨🪨

  I went to sleep thinking about Exposing Yourself Is Hard 🪨 the last blog. How am I expected to draw well, if I watched only videos? How can I validate...

• 2024-05-27 Exposing Yourself Is Hard 🪨

  Putting yourself in the world is even harder. Consistency is hard. Knowing that when it comes to humans there may be no one to ask for the right answe...

• 2024-05-26 Though We Are Similar Our Struggles Are Different

  It was raining heavily in Lori for more than a week nonstop. Our backyard is flooded. when you put a foot on the ground water splashes around it. We w...

• 2024-05-25 Սլովակիան և աշխարհի Խնդիրները 🇸🇰

  Վաղուց պիտի գրեի սա, արդեն երեք ամիս անցել ա։ Գնացել էի Սլովակիա, ՄԱԶԾ֊ի հետ(UNDP)։ Ծանոթացա լիքը մարդու հետ։ Սլովակիա, Մոնտենեգրո, Ղազախստան, Իսպանիա...

• 2024-05-24 Stray Dog With a Collar 🐕‍🦺

  Lately I have been fascinated with behavior and behavioral changes. Recently, my wife proposed to put color collars on stray dogs near our house. The ...

• 2024-05-23 Learned During Altmba 🐦‍⬛

  Today is graduation day for altMBA, and what a ride it was. I committed to do so many things. I’ve listened to the stories of so many people. F...

• 2024-04-13 Խնդիրներ։ Բիզնես Ռուբենի հետ | Մաս 4 🎭️

  Միշտ չի, որ դրական/պոզիտիվ պիտի լինի իմ բլոգը, չէ՞։ Գրեմ՝ իմանաք, որ սենց էլ ա լինում։ Ընկերությունը գրանցված է, հարթակը պատրաստ է։ Ճանապրհին խնդրեներ...

• 2024-04-02 Ինչու՞ եմ հագնում միայն հայկական շորեր 👕

  Կարճ ասած որովհետև դուրս գալիս ա։ Ես սիրում եմ որոշումներ կայացնել ու դնել ինձ սահմանափակումների մեջ, դա թույլ է տալիս լավ ուսումնասիրել այդ ոլորտի բո...

• 2024-02-21 ՈՄԱ Քեմփ - Ամենալավ արձակուրդ ⛺️

  Վերջերս գնացի 10 օրյա ՈՄԱ արշավ։ Եթե կարճ՝ ընտիր փորձառություն ա ու ալտերնատիվ հանգստի ձև։ Հաստատ էլի կգնամ։ Տպավորություններս Սա գժական հնարավորությո...

• 2024-01-27 Download Your Music and Stream It, Product Idea 🎧️

  Ever thought you could stream your songs offline? Can you still download music? MP3, WAW? Ever thought that there is a world outside Spotify? Apparen...

• 2024-01-25 Testing email sending with Jest, nodemailer, Node and TypeScript 📩

  Ever since I started to do Test-driven development(TDD) I am encountered various issues regarding which I cannot find definitive solutions, so I will ...

• 2024-01-09 Ինչպես մտնել ընկերական շրջապատ 👭🏻

  Թվային դարում, ընկեր գտնելը դժվար գործ է, թե առցանց թե ֆիզակապես։ Չնայած, ես դրա հետ երբեք խնդիրներ չեմ ունեցել։ Անգամ հիմա ես մարդկանց հետ կարող եմ ը...

• 2023-12-16 Երկուշաբթի գնալու եմ համայնքապետի հետ հանդիպեմ 💼

  Էսօր շատ գրելու բան չունեմ։ Գրում եմ, որ զարգացնեմ գրելուս մկանը։ Եղել ա շաբաթներ, որ չեմ գրել ու ռիսկը մեծ էր, որ կարող ա չշարունակեմ, բայց դե ես նպա...

• 2023-12-09 Քո բլոգը բաց ծրագրակազմով ու գրեթե անվճար✏️

  Մի քանի օր առաջ հանդիպեցի Ներսես Երիցյանին: Նա պատմում էր, թէ իրենք ինչ գժական գործեր են անում Հայաստանում՝ թվային են սառքում մեզ արդեն ծանոթ բյուրոկր...

• 2023-12-03 Մոտիվացիա, երբ մոտիվացիա չկա ✨

  Չնայած հոգեբույժի չեմ գնացել, բայց դե թեստեր անցնելով ու հոգեբանի հետ խոսելով պարզել եմ որ ՈՒՊևՀ(ADHD) ունեմ։ Դե դա մեծ բան չի զի շատ են հիմա «ախտորոշ...

• 2023-11-11 Բիզնես Ռուբենի Հետ | Մաս 3 👯

  Ես գործից դուրս եկա, պետք է զբաղվեմ իմ նախագծերի զարգացմամբ։ Այսօր խոսենք դրանցից մեկի մասին։ Եվ ահա, մենք ունենք արդեն մեր թիմը։ Մենեջեր, ծրագրավորող...

• 2023-11-04 Արա ինքդ պահարան Գուգի օգնությամբ| Մաս 2 👐🏻

  Սոնայի հետ գնացինք վերջը Հախվերդյան շինմոնտաժ, իրենք օրգապակու ներկրողներն են Հայասնաում։ Ես սկսզբից մտածում էի անել պահարանները թունավոր կանաչ, բայց ...

• 2023-10-21 Ի՞նչ Է Դոքերը և ում է այն պետք 🐋

  Սա մակերեսային նկարագրություն է Դոքերի մասին։ Մանրամասների համար ցանկալի է կարդալ դոկումենտացիա։ ՕՀ Համակարգիչների վրա աշխատում է օպերացիոն համակարգ, ...

• 2023-10-15 Configuring own homebrew server - part 3: The Final Setup 🐋🐧☁️

  If you have read my previous part 1 and part 2, here is the configuration. Note: my server hardware is very slow, I use AMD E-350 Processor CPU with 8...

• 2023-10-07 Supporting forcefully expelled refugees from Arsakh

  Writing in English hoping of more international readers interested in the topic. The tragedy Artsakh / Nagorno Karabakh has fallen, it’s a big t...

• 2023-09-30 Configuring own homebrew server - part 2: regain control of your data, secure alternatives to Google drive / iCloud, 1Password, Spotify and more ☁️🔒️

  Many of us don’t want to give our data to big companies because they sometimes accidentally or purposefully share it, invade our privacy, or let...

• 2023-09-17 Վաճառվում Է Ավտոմեքենա 🚙

  Ուրեմն, ՎԱՃԱՌՎՈՒՄ Է ԱՎՏՈՄՈՄԵՔԵՆԱ, ՋԻՊ ՎՐԱՆԳԼԵՐ, 2008 թիվ, մեխանիկա անունը Ջեսիկա Իրականում էս մեքենան բերել էի էմիրություններից քանզի սիրահարվել էի իր...

• 2023-09-09 Բիզնես Ռուբենի Հետ | մաս 2 💼 💼

  Նախորդ մասը ֊ Բիզնես Ռուբենի հետ | մաս 1 💼 Դե ոնց ասացի գովազդ էի միացրել։ Այս պահին ծախսերը ՍՄՍ պլատֆորմի համար հետևյալն են։ Գովազդային հարթակ ծախսվա...

• 2023-08-19 Tips on troubleshooting Docker Image build, Compose and Swarm issues 🐳🐳🐳

  Docker has revolutionized the way we develop, deploy, and manage applications, allowing us to create lightweight and isolated containers that encapsul...

• 2023-07-27 Importing local directory as a package in NPM🐁

  Sometimes, we need to modify third-party libraries for our projects, but we don’t want to publish the changes as public packages. Both NPM and Y...

• 2023-07-19 Բիզնես Ռուբենի հետ | մաս 1 💼

  Ես խոսք եմ տվել լինել թափանցիկ ու դրա համար ես պետք ա գրեմ, որ խոստումս չդրժեմ։ Նախաբան Դե այս պահին շուկան խայտառակ վիճակում ա ու ես էլ մեծամասնությա...

• 2023-05-29 Configuring own homebrew server - part 1: Arch Linux, Networking, and Data Syncing 🐧

  After three long years of loyalty to CentOS, the time had finally come to shake things up and introduce Arch Linux to the server. Armed with determina...

• 2023-05-23 How not to get hired at Canonical 📉💡

  Hey everyone, allow me to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of my adventure applying for a job at Canonical, the powerhouse behind our darling Ubun...

• 2023-05-15 Արա ինքդ պահարան Գուգի օգնությամբ | մաս 1 🤌

  Ես մի օր միտք ունեցա սարքել երկու պահարան զուգարանի համար ու ննջասենյակի համար, բայց չունեի բավարար ձեռք։ Ես գրում եմ ծրագիր OpenScadով որ գուգին դեմո...

• 2023-05-05 Always in Progress Document: What I Plan to Write About ✏️

  🚧 Work in progress, always 🛑 I plan to write about Ի՞նչ Է Դոքերը և ում է այն պետք 🐋 simple homebrew server on minimal hardware Configuring own homebre...

• 2023-05-05 Dockerized Mysql Cluster With Swarm 🐋🐳🐋

  Docker Swarm is a good choice for smaller and simpler Dockerized MySQL clusters due to its ease of use and compatibility with Docker. On the other han...

• 2023-05-05 Hello world կամ Բարև աշխարհ 🌐

  This is the beginning and first attempt of a blog. I will write here sometimes in English and sometimes in Armenian, so stay tuned. Սա բլոգի սկիզբն ու...