Tag: writing
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I was not writing for my blog because I was writing a book
Yes, that is correct – I finally self-published my fiction book called “CineMagic”. In fact, the book contains two stories: “CineMagic” as the main course and “Mechanism” as a dessert. Russian version. English version. If you are sitting there surprised with this twist, below is the story of its creation ⬇️ I enjoyed writing stories…
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How Crunch Reminded Me of Boundaries
When I joined a new company recently, I found myself in a classic newbie situation that often happens with me when I end up in a new environment: I try hard to leave the best impression in the shortest time possible. It’s like a personal tradition I never fully outgrew. I don’t change jobs often,…
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From Courtrooms to Game Rooms
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the sharp turn I took in my career and decided to write a post about the transition that changed my life. There’s a certain expectation in life that if you work hard, follow the rules, and do everything right, you’ll eventually reach your goal. That’s what I believed when I…
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Demystifying Communication Biases
Or “The best thing you can learn from the diverse teams”. The thing I am going to write about is only one of many things you can learn by working with people of different backgrounds, cultures and areas of expertise. It’s not technical insights, hard skills or “How does Let It Go from Frozen sound…
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Why Brainstorms Fall Short
This post was inspired by this toy I saw on the web. Apparently, some old people were buying it for their grandkids 🤣 But it suddenly got me thinking about brainstorms and here we are. Brainstorms Aren’t Always a Storm of Ideas Brainstorms are often named among the best idea-generation tools, but the thing is…
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Read This and Your Meetings Will Never Be The Same
There’s nothing as bad as a manager obsessed with meetings. We’ve all been in those slow and useless meetings, with hours wasted in endless discussions that seem to go nowhere. Many managers pack their schedule with meetings to appear ‘busy’, but if you’re not one of them and genuinely want to step up your meetings…
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Failing to Plan = Planning to Fail
Many of us begin each new year with resolutions, and despite their mixed success rates, they symbolize a powerful moment of renewal. Even smaller naive things like “I will quit smoking… starting Monday” have a proven psychological effect of higher success of kicking off a new habit with the beginning of a new period (week,…
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F.A.Q.: Producer In Video Games
“But what exactly are you doing?” – a question I get a lot from all kinds of people, from grandmothers to industry peers. I started my journey in the video game industry with a small company, where, as in most small companies, managers have to wear different hats. I’ve been a lawyer/legal consultant, business development…
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Co-Op Gaming: Team Work Make the Dream Work
I recently posted a thought about coop gaming on my LinkedIn page (I split my content into thoughts for short random messages on hot topics and Articles for thought-through knowledge sharing about some topic that resonates with me). I was praising the success of Helldivers II, thinking out loud about the benefits of playing with…
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Six Lessons I learned in Tactile
In 2021, I left my hometown behind to move to Denmark and work for Tactile as a Penny & Flo producer. I knew a lot about management already from my previous jobs, and I also was pretty deep in the mobile F2P industry but never worked in an international company or story-driven game. My previous…
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Value Stream Mapping
#1 tool with underrated Value Coincidence or not, several of my current and former colleagues asked me about this tool recently, so I thought: “Maybe it deserves an article to spare the repetitive explanation.” As all the managers, I have a myriad of different tools and rituals to make it through the production pipeline. You…
Retrieving Thoughts 