Katya Cares!

Katya learns and shares about tech, remote culture, art, psychology, and joy.

Welcome to Katya Cares, a new Substack space! Here, we discuss new technologies, remote work culture, art, psychology, and joy.

Katya Learns and Shares

Katya is your bubbly learning companion for everything intimidating. She will share with you what new, intimidating thing she is learning and how exactly she goes about it. Maybe, it will inspire you to learn alongside her.

Katya is currently learning a lot about AI technology, ethics, and culture. Such are the times! AI will be a central focus in the next couple of posts.

Also You Should Know…

Katya often invents things. For instance:

Joyking (a word I invented that sounds silly): Verb. To relish daily moments of joy. Laughter is encouraged.

No matter what I study for my career or self-development each week, I'll still write about one subject I'm passionate about: joy. We need joy because learning, sharing, and caring are more difficult without it. I'll always end my posts with discussing the topic of joy and sharing whatever moment stood out to me from the week.

I will also switch between third person and first person whenever I want, like a maniac. The AI trying to edit this post does not know what to do with me…

I hope you find what you seek, be it learning something interesting or sharing a giggle with me! Don't be a stranger - comment, subscribe, shout out, or send a compliment.

A Little About Katya and Why Should You Care?

Katya in the motherland marching away

One comfortably cold day as a child, I marched alone into a serious-looking academic building. In Russian, I stated to the first adult I saw that I was ready to learn the language, the culture, the country. They informed me that I couldn't start school for a few more months, as there was a process to follow. My family didn't take any notice.

I arrived to America as Katya, but was taught at the school to call myself Katie or Kate. Months of learning how to be more than a refugee and more than American stretched into years of learning how to be a human being, and my own type of human being. And I've spent the past decade reminding my friends to call me Katya, instead of Kate. Even though I'm a true New Yorker, it is Katya who cares.

How I learn has not changed - I march into new curiosities on my own time, in my own way. At the start, sitting alone with my own research and experimentation works best for me. I’m an introvert with ADHD tendencies. But still, sooner rather than later, the urge to collaborate takes over and I find a lot of joy from sharing insights and processes with others.

Sharing is caring! and other lessons the motherland pushed onto me when I was a child, grumble grumble grumble

I created this Substack to lean into the joy of learning through sharing.

Also, the CEO of my company instructed me to write about the website I created while learning Open AI’s API and I already used up all my Nooooos politely declining the last 2 million product requests. I will be sharing about this website soon.

So here I am, a Katya who lives in New York, who studied psychology and entrepreneurship, and works remotely as a Director of Product. I love my city, my job, my career. I spend my days diving into new technologies, creating and growing products, and studying joy.

On Katya Cares, I Will Share:

• What I've learned recently and how I learned it

  • This will focus on AI tech for now.

• Remote culture learnings

  • And any job opportunities I come across, in case you get jealous.

• Interesting insights about being a human to share with other humans

  • If you're a dog, that is cool too! Bark bark bark!

• Joyking moments

  • Whatever brought me joy during the week, as inspiration for you.

Did You Read and Do You Care?

Subscribe, like, and let me know - I'd love to know if you're learning something alongside me. If you have any questions or requests, don’t be shy!
Let's learn, share, and care together!