anchor.diff:  Middle-aged Ukrainians are using Uber, asking about Bitcoin, buying drones, shopping online and using same-day delivery services.
   
   For me, I practically saw no difference between creative class in San Francisco, Hong Kong, London, and Kyiv.
  -Forgetting about globalization issue, in general, I consider it a good thing for Ukraine at this particular moment in time.
  -
  +Forgetting about globalization issue, in general, I consider it to be a good thing for Ukraine at this particular moment in time.
  +
  
positive.code: In 2015 I wrote, "we started to value intellectuals, it’s becoming fashionable again to be smart and kind."
  This thing happened! I’m so excited about it. When I left Ukraine in 2010, it was still cool to be “cool” (in the sense of “bad boys”).
  While in Kyiv I saw a tremendous amount of small new libraries or coffee shops/libraries. 
  Young people started were reading good Modern books. 
  I've met two software engineers, and how surprised I was when we realized that 3 of us read the same books 
  (e.g., Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One”). And I’ve got many good book recommendations.
  
  
negative.code: ---
  title: "Ukraine: Nov 2017"
  url: "/ukraine_nov_2017"
  aliases: []
  description: "Looking through the new eyes"
  date: 2017-12-29
  draft: false
  acknowledgement: 
  categories: ["Writings"]
  tags: ["Ukraine", "travelling", "technology"]
  people: []
  places: ["Kyiv", "Ukraine", "Kharkiv"]
  locations: ["San Francisco"]
  ---
  
  = Ukraine: Nov 2017
  Anton Podviaznikov <anton@podviaznikov.com>
  :revdate: 2018-01-09
  :docdate: 2018-01-09
  :nofooter:
  :document_type: writing
  :tags: "Ukraine, travelling, technology"
  
  In July 2015 I wrote a https://podviaznikov.com/ukraine/[post about Ukraine] that defined two things 
  that made me optimistic about Ukrainian future.
  
  