What I will write about
The growing list of topics on my TO-DO list
When I was thinking about starting the Nazar Thinks blog in September 2025, I had my doubts. The biggest of them was: “Will I have enough things to write about?”, enough to justify a proper blog instead of just a few posts on my LinkedIn page. At that time I’ve only had 5-7 topics on my list of potential post titles, which didn’t seem like a lot.
As you can tell, I’ve started the blog after all, thanks to the gentle push of inspiration from my most devoted listener and professional storyteller – Ife Thomas. She had convinced me that the things I notice, complain and think about on a daily basis may actually be interesting to others, not only to my own overthinking mind.
Now, a couple of months later (December 2025), that list of topics has grown quite a lot. So far I’ve been writing them down in my Notes app every time a new seemingly worthwhile thought crossed my mind. But now I’ve decided to keep that list of thoughts here, publicly available, such that you can see what I think about and what to expect from this blog in the future.
I update this post as I publish new articles, changing the publication date correspondingly.
Topics list
The topics below are listed in no particular order, and will be published based on whatever I decide to write about at any given moment. I will be updating this list, adding new items when new thoughts cross my mind or adding links whenever a topic turns into a published post.
🧪 Science related
UV protection in sunglasses
Bit flips provoked by radiation affecting our society (Airbus emergency, elections)
Good vs bad experiment (scientifically speaking)
Have you ever touched anything? (not really)
Dust layer under Antarctic ice (IceCube)
Safety of microwave ovens
How to heat your house efficiently
The importance of asking “Why?“ (link with marketing)
Upload vs download bandwidth in video-calls
What is radiation? (light, heat, ionization)
Why stop signals are red?
The trick of a pressure cooker
Vitamin D, sun, iron deficiency and dark skin
Inverse square law (photography, acoustics, audio/video calls)
Humidity and temperature perception
Keeping teeth healthy
Dreams: seeing vs remembering
Do you turn your lights off to save energy?
Armpits, hair and bad smell
Voltage, current and power: confusion about USB chargers
Swiping off water in the shower
Organization to reduce combinatorics (labels, folders, tags)
Teeth care: chewing gum vs rinsing the mouth, floss
Privacy of interior lights at night
Are scientists actually rude?
Misuse of scientific language (energy, vibrations, quantum)
The colours you see on this screen are not actually there
Common misconception about evolution
🧠 Thought provoking
What I’ve learnt from rollerblading: Part 1
What I’ve learnt from photography (common misconceptions about pro cameras)
What learned from my YouTube channel
Importance of luck
Two kinds of technological progress: social impact of AI, social media, phones
Comfort vs resilience
Importance of learning other languages
Empathy and effort/comfort ratio for inclusivity
Point of no return created by marketing (female shaving, take-away coffee)
Systems for risk reduction (alarms, hands out of pockets, traffic lights)
ChatGPT killing writing identity: handwriting → style of expression
Origin of superstitions and traditions (Inception: how did you get there?)
People not ashamed of sharing chatbot outputs
Case for placebo
Absence of logics in languages
Understanding vs memorizing (circle/ellipse formula)
Gender encoding in words (English vs Ukrainina/Italian/German)
AI deteriorating our thinking capabilities
Sliced bread - not the greatest invention
Embracing of uncertainty (fakes, religion, science)
True purpose of education: thinkings vs learning
Hidden complexity of simple things (websites, emails, social media)
Unappreciated single points of failure (open-source developers, ASML)
Sustainability paradox of recycled materials
Survivorship bias and racism
Conspiracy theories: yes and no (SAR, Palantir)
The meaning of miracles (past civilizations, myths, religion, UFOs, fakes)
Religion vs mythology vs science
Medicine vs natural selection: complex system
Statistical perspectives (vaccination, draughts)
Focus of attention (bias, prejudice, astrology)
Colonial language details
Implicit privacy consent of being in public
Valley of despair
Doing vs outsourcing tradeoff in learning
Is intuition worth listening to?
The value of reading vs listening or watching
Perfectionism done right (brand perspective)
Quantity vs quality of AI (autogenerated subtitles, infographics)
The existential question about AI slop (when it’s too good)
Capitalism vs socialism: dynamic range perspective
AI marketing: socialist ideology vs capitalist reality
Death of abstraction kills inclusivity (Barbie, LEGO, Hot Wheels)
Multidisciplinary knowledge as creativity multiplier
😌 User Experience
Invisibility of good design
Priority for bicycles
Priority of payments in restaurants
Fuck the EU cookies regulation. I press “Accept all”!
Edge cases causing most of the work (80/20 rule taken to extreme)
Orientation of knife&fork packaging
The case for piracy (torrent, Netflix)
Reusable school books
Time to pause and optimize (blind typing, keyboard shortcuts, manuals)
Waiting at a pedestrian crossing
Disproportionate effort as objective case against AI slop
What is fundamentally wrong with Apple’s glass design in 2026 OS’s
⚙️ Technical
My UI design for wafer-level chip-quality analysis
Discovering a swapped cable from experimental data alone
Insane alignment precision of silicon tracking detectors
Foundations and perks of numerical systems? (binary, decimal, hexadecimal)
Easy way to grow Karma on Reddit
If you have your own topic suggestions that you’d like me to think about, feel free to write them in the comments below.
I look forward to hearing from you! I subscribed. My substack is kind of heavy but you’re welcome there as well!
Looking forward to read about: dust layer under Antarctic ice, have you ever touched anything (?????), DREAMS, rude scientists, importance of luck (read f*ck at first - without glasses. Could also be a topic), empathy and effort for inclusivity, point of no return shit, and and and much more!