<p>Hello, I decided to try blogging about work, personal growth and project stuff. Maybe it will fail or be frozen like my other projects, and I would write here once a year. Or I might continue steadily populating this blog and maybe achieve some goals.</p><p>The main goal is to express my thoughts and arrange them. Also, I want to inspire others around me, motivate them and motivate myself. Receiving feedback would be great, but I shouldn’t put it as a goal. Also, it would be super to find colleagues for work or partners for personal projects, but it’s more like dreams. Find a dream job, a job related to saving wildlife, especially big cats, or something stable long-term related to destroying everything russian… 😀 To find a job that makes the world a better place. Dreams, dreams… But there is an option to make a current job closer to an ideal one, not on the industry or goals sides but in organizational and cultural things.</p><p>A bit about myself, or not a bit but more than that: my name is Andrii or Abysim. I prefer the last one in online communications since it’s a unique handle, a nickname I made. I work as 3rd line support team lead and partially a support product owner. Still, the last part is mostly partially, and I’m figuring out about it, actively investigating and studying product ownership.</p><p>I worked as a developer for most of my career and still like to do product engineering. I love to figure out how things work to solve problems. I love such puzzles. I’m slightly worse at writing code from scratch, I can do it well when I have time, but the time it’s the thing that is always insufficient, especially in development. Maybe I can reach the level when I write complex code quickly and correctly, but it’s rarely needed. However, the paycheck for such expertise is pretty huge too. But I prefer to analyze, find and implement systems on ready solutions.</p><p>I love to lead others and inspire them. I’m noticeably worse in my management of them and myself significantly. I am learning management because it’s intertwined with leadership, but I understand it’s not for me. Or there are not many places where my management style will be appropriate.</p><p>Changing takes time. And why should you spend enormous resources on things in which you will not be better than most when you can improve things in which you are already better than most? It’s a thing I want to talk about in the blog a lot: how to find balance in improving weak and strong sides. What is profitable or just better for yourself?</p><p>And yes, I love to help others to solve their problems. I’m bad at emotional support, but I’m good at technical support. In the 2000s, when the internet was pricey, and people were in a local network of a city district, I got a reputation as a guy that helped everyone freely when official support of the provider couldn’t or didn’t want to help. I was a student at a university, and in my free time, I helped various people with their tech problems via IM. Maybe then I got such skills.</p><p>I just like to understand how systems work and systemize that, but I’m not going into details. So specialists that know details will help better, but I can understand customers and their problems with my system approach. People who know the system’s details rarely can understand customers and their needs.</p><p>Human systems are more complex, and you can’t systematize a person. You can do it with a group, but you’ll fail sooner or later when you try to do it with someone. So, I want to talk about emotions too, since it’s my weak side, but it’s prevailing in society.</p><p>I will write this blog on Medium and repost it automatically on other social media with the link to the original when the characters limit is reached. There won’t be a link to the original when not needed. I don’t want to distract and force you to always go to Medium.</p><p>Thank you for your attention and time.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=bb991d5212e9" width="1" height="1" alt="">