Founder And The City

No, You Don’t Need to Be “AI-Native”

Everyone says AI-native startups are growing like crazy. So I started asking: which ones, exactly? — and what actually survives once AI makes everything…

Jul 6 • Jane Smorodnikova

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June 2026

God-in-the-Loop: In Search of an AI Deity

Why the race for AGI is less about automating labor, and more about our desperate desire to escape the heavy burden of human judgment

Jun 28 • Jane Smorodnikova

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Real Product Is Not Idealism. It’s Independence.

Why the most cold-blooded, pragmatic move in a broken acquisition market is building something people actually need

Jun 17 • Jane Smorodnikova

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I Analyzed 700,000 Days of Wearable Data to Find a Symptom No Test Can See

Inside the search for a Long COVID crash detection algorithm — the dead ends, the paradoxes, and why most studies might be measuring the wrong thing

Jun 5

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Wellness's Safety Is What's Hurting People

The wellness industry counts the cost of being wrongly specific. It doesn't count the cost of being wrongly generic. The second is much bigger.

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May 2026

10 Years of Welltory: Surviving the SaaS Meat-Grinder, Rejecting “Healthism,” and the Fight for Agency

This May marks exactly ten years since we released our first iOS app in 2016.

May 5

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April 2026

Beyond “Healthism”: Why I’m Rejecting the Performance Model of Health

Stop letting the wellness industry treat systemic failure as your personal flaw.

Apr 9

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How I Built a 300-Page internal book about modern health & wellness with a multi-model AI pipeline

And Why “Prompts” Are Not Enough

Apr 4 • Jane Smorodnikova

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March 2026

AI, fake productivity, and why “time‑tracking founders” are in trouble

And why I am happy with our approach

Mar 24

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December 2025

The AI Bubble Survival Guide

Why I stopped worrying about AI disruption and have got a long term view again

Dec 30, 2025 • Jane Smorodnikova

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November 2025

What Physical Asia Teaches Us

And Why I Was Rooting for Mongolia

Nov 23, 2025 • Jane Smorodnikova

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When Your Company Stops Being You

And Why That’s the Best Thing That Could Happen

Nov 22, 2025 • Jane Smorodnikova

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