Book Cube: 2024, page 1
Book Cube publications from 2024, page 1: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
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Code of Leadership & Research Insights Made Simple (Category Management)
Code of Leadership & Research Insights Made Simple (Rubric Management ) This year I started two podcasts - one about engineering management with interviews and book analysis, and the second with whitepapers analysis. Over the course of the year, I was able to talk with a lot of interesting guests, thank you to each of them. And thank you to all the viewers, listeners and readers. As a New Year’s greeting, I posted everything. videoSo you can watch them without restrictions.
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Participated in New Year’s greetings organized by Grisha Skobelev and the community {between parentheses }. Vlad Khonononov recommended a new book about balancing coupling in software design:)
Participated in New Year’s greetings organized by Grisha Skobelev and the community {between parentheses }. Vlad Khonononov recommended a new book about balancing coupling in software design:)
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Congratulations on the upcoming New Year 2025! 🍾🎄🎉
Congratulations on the upcoming New Year 2025! 🍾🎄🎉 All happiness, peace and so that everything you have planned for the new year will come true. Useful references
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Amazon Aurora DSQL (Data column)
Amazon Aurora DSQL (Rubric Data ) Werner Vogel, CTO Amazon, in his keynote at re:Invent 2024 Half an hour told about the new capabilities of the Aurora base, which appeared about 10 years ago, and now moved to the class newSQL and began to resemble the features of Google Spanner, which just appeared more 10 years ago. Here's what Werner did.
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Data breakfast at T-Space 13 January (Data column)
Data breakfast at T-Space 13 January (Rubric Data ) We'll start the new year at T-Bank data-miningwhich you will pass 13 January in the format of breakfast. At the event, 2 report 1) Dmitry Anoshin, founder of Rock Your Data consulting company (North America)Specializing in cloud analytics, will present an overview of analytical solutions, tools and approaches to team formation. You will learn about building effective analytical teams, overcoming complexities, and developing analytic systems architectures.
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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote (Category Architecture)
AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote (Rubric Architecture ) A few weeks ago, Dr. Werner Vogels , CTO Amazon, spoke On AWS re:Invent with a story about the concept of simplexity, which he came up with 20 years at Amazon. The word itself is a combination of two words: complexity and simplicity. In fact, the whole thing is to make the products look just for customers, and all the complexity was behind the scenes. Werner talks about six principles and shows how they are applied in practice. Here are the six principles:
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Facility 4 - Lesson. 27 "The book is published. What now? Expert Dmitry Utrobin (Category Writing)
Facility 4 - Lesson. 27 "The book is published. What now? Expert Dmitry Utrobin (Rubric Writing ) The final lesson of the course for authors of books from the publishing house MIF was a lesson about what to do when the book is already published. The lesson was led by Dmitry Utrobin, partner and co-director of MIF. This is what I learned from the final lesson.
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Calendar komikaki by Kirill Anastasin (Humor column)
Calendar komikaki by Kirill Anastasin (Rubric Humor ) While everyone is summing up the year, I can say that this year I had a fun calendar from Kirill Anastasin, the author of komikaki, as well as a public speaker and public speaking coach. I’ve talked about Kirill several times.
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[2/2] The ignorant maestro (The ignorant maestro: How great leaders inspire unpredictable brilliance) (Category Management)
\[2/2\] The ignorant maestro (The ignorant maestro: How great leaders inspire unpredictable brilliance) (Rubric Management ) Suddenly I decided to continue the story of the book. The ignorant maestro " (" The ignorant maestro ")about which wrote A year ago. This is due to a lecture by Sergey Burlak, musician, business coach and author of the MuzDieta channel. (@musicdiet). I was at this lecture on Thursday night and Sergey talked about leadership styles, showed videos of great conductors and even performed music himself.
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The Nutcracker at the Grand Theatre (Category Culture)
The Nutcracker at the Grand Theatre (Rubric Culture ) Yesterday I attended the ballet The Nutcracker of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the Bolshoi Theatre together with my wife. I loved the music, the scenery and the action itself - it felt like falling into a children's fairy tale where the Nutcracker goes out to fight the Mouse King.
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Book Covers and Illustrations for Data Mesh in Action and Data Mesh in Action
Covers and illustrations for books "Data Mesh in Action" and "Data Mesh in Action"
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Data Mesh in Action (Data Mesh in action) (Data column)
Data Mesh in Action (Data Mesh in action) (Rubric Data ) I have read this book by three authors Maikhzhak, Balnoyan and Sivak over the past month. The book itself can serve as a simple guide to understanding and implementing the data mesh concept. (or data grids as indicated in the translation)It decentralizes data management to improve scalability, availability, and extract value from data. The book consists of three parts and nine chapters.
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Naming inflation C O (Humor column)
Naming inflation C\ O (Rubric Humor ) Over the past few years, I’ve seen headline inflation in different companies in a similar scenario. 1) Once the nameplate CTO spoke about belonging to top management and such a person was in the company alone. The others were called Directors, VPs and so on. 2) Then in large companies with a bunch of product verticals, the CTO nameplate somehow smoothly floated towards the technical managers of these verticals and the CTO in the companies became dozens.
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Satya Nadella BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner (AI column)
Satya Nadella BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner (Rubric AI ) Interesting. interview Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave two venture investors Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner. There were many interesting topics in the interview, but the main ones were the following: 1) Appointment of Microsoft CEO Nadella shares her experiences, including a strategic note sent to the CEO selection committee and the transformation of the company under his leadership. 2014 This led to significant increases in revenue, profits and market value.
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The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Covers books The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
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Cultural code (The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do) (Category Management)
Cultural code (The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do) (Rubric Management ) The Cultural Code: How We Live, What We Buy, and Why explores the concept of cultural code, which is the unconscious meaning given to objects or phenomena within a particular culture. The author of the book, Clauter Rapai is a French psychoanalyst, marketer and business consultant who is known for this theory of “cultural codes”.
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CSKA (Category Sport)
CSKA (Rubric Sport ) He got out for a hockey game with his son and friends, was late for Dad minutes to start and missed both starting goals. So the match started with me. 2:0through 10 I waited a minute for another puck I had already seen.
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Database Internals Meetup 5: five papers at the ISPRAS Open DBMS section (Category Architecture)
Database Internals Meetup 5: five papers at the ISPRAS Open DBMS section (Rubric Architecture ) Two weeks ago, I was at a conference of ISP RAS, or rather at the Database Internals mitapa. 5which took place during this conference. I really enjoyed the performances and I recommend them. look upIf there's a chance. And I will tell you about the thoughts of Andrey Fomichev, which he told on the results of the development of YDB throughout 10 It looked like the keynote of this Mitap. 1) The new DBMS starts with an idea.
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Research Insights Made Simple 7 - Interview with Pavel Lakosnikov about Architecture Governance (Category Architecture)
Research Insights Made Simple 7 - Interview with Pavel Lakosnikov about Architecture Governance (Rubric Architecture ) In this release Pavel Lakosnikov came to visit me to talk about the management of architecture in a large company:) Pavel runs the architecture governance unit in Avito, sawed one monolith, and also loves metrics. Came to Avito. 9 years ago as a developer.
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From products to JBTD or how the flow of change affects the structure of the company (Category Management)
From products to JBTD or how the flow of change affects the structure of the company (Rubric Management ) Last year at YaTalks. 2023 I already am. told about how to form a team structure for business needs. At the end of this summer, I told What does the T-Bank management scheme look like now? And in this article, I would like to talk about how it has transformed over time and where we are going now.
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Moomin troll and Christmas ( ForKids)
Moomin troll and Christmas ( ForKids ) I was with my youngest son yesterday at a production.Moomin troll and Christmas"at the Fanny Bell House and we really enjoyed it." At Christmas time, guests sometimes come to the actors of Fanny-Bell and this time it was the Karlsson Haus theater from St. Petersburg, which brought this play based on the works of Tove Jansson.
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Continuation of Woke, Inc. or more about DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) (Category Management)
Continuation of Woke, Inc. or more about DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) (Rubric Management ) Previously, post I was talking about Vivek Ramaswamy's book Woke, Inc. And in this post, I wanted to talk a little bit more about DOGE, an advisory commission whose goal is to reduce bureaucracy, reduce inefficient spending, and simplify the work of the federal government. The Commission shall be chaired by 2 human Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, known for his support of deregulation.
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Book covers of Woke, Inc. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
Covers books "Woke, Inc. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
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Woke, Inc. Behind the facade of corporate rhetoric about social justice (Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam) (Mananagement Category)
Woke, Inc. Behind the facade of corporate rhetoric about social justice (Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam) (Rubric Mananagement ) I recently came across books by Fortis Press, a publishing house based in Yerevan. 2023 year. It publishes translations of books on contemporary global issues. I bought some of their books and was the first to read an interesting book by Vivek Ramaswamy, who was a US presidential candidate and now, along with Elon Musk, heads the new US government’s Department of Efficiency.
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[2/2] AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead (AI column)
\[2/2\] AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead (Rubric AI ) Finishing. story About using AI in development, I want to talk about what they have achieved and what next steps they see.
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[1/2] AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead (AI column)
\[1/2\] AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead (Rubric AI ) It's been great this summer. posture from the guys at Google about their approach to using AI in engineering. The highlights of this article are as follows: 1) The author works in a team responsible for the software development environments in which Google engineers spend most of their time, including the inner loop. (IDE, code review , code search)and the surface of the outer loop (For example, error management, planning).
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[2/2] A Field Guide to Reliability Engineering at Zalando • Heinrich Hartmann • GOTO 2024 (Category Management)
\[2/2\] A Field Guide to Reliability Engineering at Zalando • Heinrich Hartmann • GOTO 2024 (Rubric Management ) Continue. story speech Heinrich Hartmann Head of Reliability Engineering at Zalando SE, I would like to tell you about the other approaches and principles that the guys practice.
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[1/2] A Field Guide to Reliability Engineering at Zalando • Heinrich Hartmann • GOTO 2024 (Category Management)
\[1/2\] A Field Guide to Reliability Engineering at Zalando • Heinrich Hartmann • GOTO 2024 (Rubric Management ) I recently saw something interesting. speech from Heinrich Hartmann Head of Reliability Engineering at Zalando SE, about their approaches to reliability.
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House AI Task Force’s bipartisan report (AI column)
House AI Task Force’s bipartisan report (Rubric AI ) This December was an interesting one. documentPrepared by the bipartisan Congressional Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It provides strategic guidance for the regulation and implementation of AI in various sectors. The main ideas of the report can be divided into several key areas:
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Code of Leadership 26 - Interview with Salikh Fakhrutdinov about SRE Growth and SRE Team (Category Architecture)
Code of Leadership 26 - Interview with Salikh Fakhrutdinov about SRE Growth and SRE Team (Rubric Architecture ) In this episode We discussed the role and tasks of SRE engineers on the example of the career of Salikh Fakhrutdinov, Chief Reliability Engineer at T-Bank’s Origination Business Platform. Salih’s team is responsible for the reliability of new product discovery processes, supports multiple services, and actively implements a shift left reliability approach.
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Cognitive Science and Technology: From Neuron to Cognition (Brain column)
Cognitive Science and Technology: From Neuron to Cognition (Rubric Brain ) Recently, I talked with my wife about the brain, psychology, artificial intelligence. We discussed these topics in the context of her master’s program in psychoanalytic business consulting, as well as my desire to combine practical activities and start some kind of scientific research. (I have an open gestalt here.). In the end, she asked me to look at the master's program.Cognitive Science and Technology: From Neuron to Cognition" from the Higher School of Economics.
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Von Neumann, The Computer and the Brain
Covers books Von Neumann, The Computer and the Brain
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The computer and the brain (The Computer and the Brain) (Category PopularScience)
The computer and the brain (The Computer and the Brain) (Rubric PopularScience ) It was with great interest that I read this popular science study comparing the human brain and computers. This book is incomplete and published posthumously. 70 years ago (into 1958 year). John originally prepared this material for the Silliman lectures at Yale.
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How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets • Barbara Oakley & Charles Humble • GOTO 2024 (Category: SelfDevelopment)
How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets • Barbara Oakley & Charles Humble • GOTO 2024 (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) Interesting. podcast Goto, where Charles Hummel interviews Barbara Oakley. Barbara is the author of a very popular courseLearning How to LearnOn Coursera. For this course, Barbara wrote a book, Think Like a Mathematician. ("A Mind For Numbers")Which I've been talking about before. told. And in this podcast, many interesting topics were raised.
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Facility 4 - Lesson. 26 “The author's work with a literary agent. Expert - Galina Bocharova (Category Writing)
Facility 4 - Lesson. 26 “The author's work with a literary agent. Expert - Galina Bocharova (Rubric Writing ) The next lesson dealt with the question of who are literary agents and what they can help a novice or continuing author. This was told by Galina Bocharova, an experienced literary agent. The main things I learned from the lesson are
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IT project management (IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish) (Category Management)
IT project management (IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish) (Rubric Management ) Discussed old papers and came across his project manager certificate (PMP). In the meantime, I decided to remember how 17 Years ago, he studied a whole bunch of books on project management when he started studying at the newly opened IBS master’s degree at MIPT:) I bought and cared for several books on the subject, one of which turned out to be Joseph Phillips.
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Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 5: Onboarding and Ramp-Up (Category Management)
Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 5: Onboarding and Ramp-Up (Rubric Management ) This is another review. articles A human approach to developer productivity. This article focuses on the critical aspects of onboarding and increasing the speed of engineers.
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Les Art Resort (Category Kids)
Les Art Resort (Rubric Kids ) My wife and children and I spent the weekend at Les Art Resort celebrating her birthday. We really liked - there are a lot of entertainment for children and adults: tubing, outdoor and indoor pools, playrooms for children, bowling, billiard, a zoo with deer, which can be fed by hand and much more. We’ll come here and learn more next time:)
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Facility 4 - Lesson. 25 "How do you become a brand?" Expert Igor Mann (Category Writing)
Facility 4 - Lesson. 25 "How do you become a brand?" Expert Igor Mann (Rubric Writing ) In the next lesson, Igor Mann talks about building a personal brand. And he knows how to do that.) From this lesson I learned the following basic ideas:
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CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) (Category Management)
CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) (Rubric Management ) When I first started my career as an engineer, there were a lot of maturity models for software development processes, specifically CMMI. Today I decided to remember. history And the limits of applicability, because lately I've seen a great fascination with different models of maturity, for example. KMM or ACMM. I'm going to talk about it next time, and today let's talk about CMMI.
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Evolution of software architecture with the co-creator of UML (Grady Booch) (Category Architecture)
Evolution of software architecture with the co-creator of UML (Grady Booch) (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting series podcast on Gradi BuchemThe books I studied at the beginning of my career:) Gradi came up with object-oriented design andmethod", which was the forerunner of UML. Together with Rumbaugh and Jacobson, he created the language. UML (Unified Modeling Language)He also founded Rational Rose, which 20 I bought IBM years ago.
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Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs (Data column)
Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs (Rubric Data ) I came across the ACM newsletter here. (Association of Computing Machinery) The news, which perfectly demonstrates that Big data isn't big anymore.:) In fact, there was always a lot of data in genetics after scientists learned how to decipher the genome. But this data had to be able to store somewhere and quickly shovel in order to extract insights.
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TDR – Technical Design Review Process / Pavel Lakosnikov (Avito) (Category Architecture)
TDR – Technical Design Review Process / Pavel Lakosnikov (Avito) (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report Pasha Lakosnikova from Avito about making high-quality technical solutions in a large company. The main points are approximately the following: 1) Pasha himself has been working in Avito for a long time and is now building architecture governance. 2) As the company grows, it becomes more difficult to make quality decisions due to the growth of chimsl teams and the complexity of the hierarchy.
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Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough (Category Physics)
Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough (Rubric Physics ) Interesting. article This week in the New York Times, which tells about the latest achievements of Google in the field of quantum computing. The bottom line is that Google claims to achieve “quantum supremacy” because their quantum computer on Willow chips solved a synthetic problem in minutes, and classical supercomputers on von Neumann architecture would take a septillion years. (10^24 years).
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Big Data is Dead (Data column)
Big Data is Dead (Rubric Data ) This one posture Jordan Tigani came out almost two years ago on a blog by MotherDuck, the parent company of DuckDB. Jordan was one of the engineers behind Google BigQuery, and then he was responsible for product development, which means he knows what he’s talking about. MotherDuck is trying to build a cloud-based version of DuckDB, an interesting in-process analytics database described in the report.DuckDB: Crunching Data Anywhere, From Laptops to Servers • Gabor Szarnyas • GOTO 2024 "which I already am." handler.
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Research Insights Made Simple 6 - Interview with Nikolay Golov about data platforms (Data column)
Research Insights Made Simple 6 - Interview with Nikolay Golov about data platforms (Rubric Data ) And, continuing with the topic of storage systems, I decided to share a new one today. release Insight podcast. This time, Nikolai Golov came to visit me to discuss how to build a platform date. 2025 year:) Kolya plays the role of head of data engineering at ManyChat, and before that he was the head of data platform in Avito. Kolya knows all about how to build data intensive OLAP and OLTP systems.
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Database Internals Meetup 5 (offline + online): 5 Reports at the ISPRAS Open Conference
Database Internals Meetup 5 (offline + online): 5 Reports at the ISPRAS Open Conference Got to fifth. mitap Russian community of DBMS and distributed systems developers, which will feature presentations from the founders and leading developers of YDB, Picodata, Tarantool, openGauss and CedrusData. The event is part of the ISPRAS Open conference in Moscow.
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Colleagues from the AI Center continue to please with large language models in Russian - now T-Pro has come out, which is good on benchmarks.
Colleagues from the AI Center continue to please with large language models in Russian - now T-Pro has come out, which is good on benchmarks. Separately, it is worth noting that the new model T-Pro is laid out in opensource as well as T-Lite and both can be downloaded from the Internet. Hugging Face.
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Open-source models have been launched 7 and 32 billionth
Open-source models have been launched 7 and 32 billionth Today we have released two large language models in Russian: T-Pro. 32 Billion parameters and updated T-Lite 7 billion parameters. They are based on Qwen models. 2.5 And they were trained in Russian.
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Facility 4 - Lesson. 24 “Selling texts. Expert - Alena Lepilina (Category Writing)
Facility 4 - Lesson. 24 “Selling texts. Expert - Alena Lepilina (Rubric Writing ) The next lesson was an example of creating selling texts:) I immediately remembered the book "Write, shorten", about which I told earlier. The expert of the lesson was Alyona, who works with texts more 16 For years, he leads a content team and edits courses. Alyona talks about the importance of texts and their impact on the audience.