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  • Hi, this is Dimitry

    April 12, 2025
    General

    And this is my blog which will be dedicated to learning and sharing my learnings with everyone. This website will also serve as my portfolio, as a place to connect, as a gallery with some photos. There are probably more things about me you can find on my social media accounts, but I will try…

  • How we moved to Odawara and why it was so cool

    April 30, 2025
    General

    Three years ago, in the end of April, we went to Odawara for a month-long workation that changed our life. It was still covid-time and too few people were coming to Japan, the hotels and AirBnBs were cheap. Odawara seemed nice, near the sea and close to our favorite hot springs in Hakone. Why not…

  • What I learned about working from home after freelancing as a tour guide

    April 24, 2025
    Learnings

    I have always been very interested in traveling and tourism, both personally and from professional and business point of view. Fundamentally, traveling somewhere is one of the few ways to learn and get new experience directly, two other I know of are reading and talking to other people. But this post is about something else.…

  • What I learned about Brands and Consumer Goods after reading Stephen King

    April 18, 2025
    Book reviews, Learnings

    This post will serve both as a book review and sharing-a-learning text which is always a great combination. As I also want to start reviewing more fiction, I will show here that you can get valuable knowledge that is applicable to many practical sides of life even from the seemingly “not-real-world” stories or fantasy. You…

  • What I learned about Strategy in a Large Successful Company

    April 16, 2025
    Learnings

    Someone asked me what I learned in three years at one of the major companies in the consumer goods industry. I started thinking about it and realized I did not have a quick answer. So I decided to write a short summary here to kick off my Learner’s blog. These learnings are relevant both to…

  • “Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World” by Matt Alt

    December 15, 2024
    Book reviews

    #FridayBookReview This time a book I knew I needed to read asap when I learned about (somehow took me quite a while to get around to it though…). With such a profound impact that Japan have had on the global popular culture there should have been libraries already written on this subject—alas, Matt Alt’s “Pure…

  • “Emergent Tokyo: Designing The Spontaneous City” by Jorge Almazan

    December 1, 2024
    Book reviews

    It’s hashtag#FridayBookReview time again and I have amazing book to cover. “Emergent Tokyo: Designing The Spontaneous City” has been on my radar after a few great reviews I read and I can only join in praising this book. The authors take a new approach in explaining what makes Tokyo a unique city staying away from…

  • “The Japanese Consumer” by Penelope Francks

    November 1, 2024
    Book reviews

    With this post I am starting a series of updates on the books I am reading that could be useful to my connections here on LinkedIn. One could ask, why read books in the age of GenAI and podcasts? Well, most importantly a good book can still be lots of fun, same as it was…