It reminded me of when I was a student. I used to repair laptops and resell them. Going through cancer in my family these days, I understand how important it is to help people when you can. It makes you a slightly better person, at least in your own eyes.

F5

Don't get me wrong, I produced a couple of songs, some people say they're pretty good. But honestly, it's a crap.

Loving musing doesn't mean you can play it.

I play every day, I do my solos, I play blues, I don't need chords. But it's hard.

Just don't underestimate how hard it is - to be able to play any solo by ear. I guess I just don't have any freaking talent. Pretty obvious at this point, since some people do a better progress in 3-5 years of work.

But for me it's not. I realized that for me something isn't just clicking. There was no breakthrough moment I expected all these years.

I invested a lot into playing guitar, but... meh. Honestly, I wish I spent all that time learning AI math or just math in general. Or spend my time on something that would have a better ROI.

Looking back I see how much effort it took, and how low my ROI is. I wish I gave up earlier.

(don't forget to "allow pasting" in [chrome] console first)

Examples of what I've built recently:

https://interviewcop.com

https://librecash.org

https://howllmworks.com

Email: roman.pushkin@gmail.com

it was available for [some] UCSF patients more than 5 years ago

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I have decent experience, my own projects, GitHub with thousands of stars, I spoke at tech conference in 2025. I wrote a book about Ruby (printed).

I've sent my resume thousands of times. 200+ hours of interviews in last 8 months, with no offers.

Now I haul junk. AMA.