Writing
Essays on product, AI, economics, and what happens when you cross-pollinate all three with a Tajik-French-Russian polyglot's perspective on the world.
The Framework
Customer · Approach · Results · Experience
Essays & Articles
01
AI & Product
Incentive structures, externalities, and market design have always shaped how technology diffuses — we just haven't been calling them that in the product room.
02
Career
After teaching thousands of PM candidates at Udacity, I've noticed the same pattern separating candidates who get offers from those who don't.
03
Marketing Technology
When the model replaces the middleman, what happens to the marketer? A framework for thinking about AI's disruption of the advertising stack — from someone who's built on both sides of it.
04
Psychology & Product
The behavioral economics of interface design — and why every extra click is a broken promise between you and your user.
05
Personal
Every language I speak is a different operating system for thinking. When you build products for global users, this isn't a soft skill — it's a technical one.
06
Economics
Two-sided markets, network effects, and liquidity traps: the econometric concepts that explain why most platform bets fail — and what the data says about the ones that don't.
07
AI & Product
When the product you're building might be the last version of that product humans build alone, the questions you ask in your PRD start to matter differently.
08
Product Strategy
Co-leading the MIT Hyperloop team wasn't just an exercise in transportation futurism. It was a live lesson in the gap between vision and execution — and how to bridge it with data.
09
Personal
From the botanical gardens of San Francisco to the terraces of Dushanbe — slowness, seasonality, and the deep patience of perennials. A meditation on iterative growth.
Long-form
When 800 words isn't enough to say what needs to be said.
Economics of Attention
A deep-dive into why the click-through rate became the de facto currency of digital advertising — and why its reign should end. Drawing on advertising science, behavioral economics, and a decade of platform product experience.
Coming soonLanguage & Intelligence
What it means to truly think in five languages — not translate between them. A personal exploration of linguistic relativity and what it implies for building AI that understands human culture, not just human text.
Coming soonMicro-essays
Day-to-day observations on product, AI, markets, and the occasional garden update.