Olegs

Olegs Belousovs
Turin, Italy

Hey there! I’m Oleg, originally from Latvia and now calling the beautiful area near Turin, Italy my home. My journey in the software and digital world has been quite a ride, from crafting user interfaces and designing intuitive experiences as a Front-end Engineer and now shaping and shipping products as a Product Manager.

Beyond the screen, I’m a big believer in the power of community and love being an active part of the Web Community. You’ll often find me at tech conferences, soaking up new ideas, and I also enjoy contributing to open-source projects whenever I can.

When I’m not immersed in the tech world, you can usually find me exploring nature through hiking, jetting off on travels, capturing moments through photography, building my vinyl collection, or getting lost in the pages of a good paper book. I’m a strong advocate for Open Culture and truly value trust, transparency, and collaboration in everything I do.

The Events and Conferences I Attended

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  • TEDxCrocetta – “Embrace The Challenge” – November 29, 2015 – Turin, Italy
  • Volontariato al WPDay – November 13, 2015 – Pordenone, Italy
  • WordCamp Europe 2015 – June 26-28, 2015 – Seville, Spain

I often attend local Meetups, Creative Mornings Turin and other tech and design events in various Turin communities.

The Books I Read

My Favourite Inspirational Quotes on Life and Design

Favourite Books

  1. The 5 Types of Wealth – Sahil Bloom
  2. Liminal Thinking – Dave Gray
  3. Gamestorming – Dave Gray
  4. Radical Focus – Christina Wodtke
  5. Build Better Products – Laura Klein
  6. Make Time – Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
  7. Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  8. Remote: Office Not Required – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  9. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  10. Shape Up – Ryan Singer
  11. Laws of UX – Jon Yablonski
  12. User Story Mapping – Jeff Patton
  13. You Have Too Much Shit – Chris Ballantine-Thomas
  14. What You Do Is Who You Are – Ben Horowitz
  15. Indistractable – Nir Eyal & Julie Li
  16. Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
  17. Maximize Your Potential – Jocelyn K. Glei
  18. Make Your Mark – Jocelyn K. Glei
  19. Sprint – Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz
  20. Going Responsive – Karen Mcgrane
  21. Responsible Responsive Design – Scott Jehl
  22. Mobile First – Luke Wroblewski
  23. Sass for Web Designers – Dan Cederholm
  24. Demystifying Public Speaking – Lara Hogan
  25. Inspired – Marty Cagan
  26. Atomic Design – Brad Frost
  27. Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
  28. Resilient Web Design – Jeremy Keith
  29. Intercom on Product Management
  30. Intercom On Starting Up
  31. Building a Device Lab – Destiny Montague & Lara Hogan
  32. Design for Real Life – Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  33. Resilient Management – Lara Hogan
  34. Essentialism – Greg McKeown
  35. Material World: A Global Family Portrait – Peter Menzel
  36. Learning Agile – Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
  37. Strategize – Roman Pichler
  38. How to Lead in Product Management – Roman Pichler
  39. La guerra nel team – Patrick Lencioni
  40. Empowered – Marty Cagan
  41. Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
  42. Outcomes Over Output – Joshua Seiden
  43. The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide – Francine Jay
  44. Reinventing Organizations – Frederic Laloux
  45. This Is Lean – Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström
  46. Manage Your Day-to-Day – 99U
  47. Continuous Discovery Habits – Teresa Torres
  48. Understanding Privacy – Heather Burns
  49. Business Model You – Tim Clark, Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
  50. Time Is Money – Tammy Everts
  51. The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
  52. Designing for Performance – Lara Callender Hogan
  53. You’re My Favorite Client – Mike Monteiro
  54. Just Enough Research – Erika Hall
  55. Design Is a Job – Mike Monteiro
  56. Web Performance in Action – Jeremy Wagner
  57. Evidence-Guided – Itamar Gilad
  58. Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories – Gojko Adzic & David Evans
  59. Impact Mapping – Gojko Adzic
  60. Agile Product Management with Scrum – Roman Pichler
  61. Unsubscribe – Jocelyn K Glei

Mixed Books

  1. Made in Italy? – Giuseppe Iorio
  2. Gomorra – Roberto Saviano
  3. Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  4. So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport
  5. Product Operations – Melissa Perri & Denise Tilles
  6. Job Moves – Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta
  7. A Pocket Guide to Front-End Style Guides – Anna Debenham
  8. Surviving Change at Work – Vanessa Gennarelli
  9. Lizard Optimization – Gojko Adzic
  10. Everyday Information Architecture – Lisa Maria Marquis
  11. The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter: Volume 1
  12. Flexible Typesetting – Tim Brown
  13. Going Offline – Jeremy Keith
  14. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  15. Le 7 regole per avere successo – Stephen Covey
  16. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
  17. Set Boundaries, Find Peace – Nedra Glover Tawwab
  18. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty – Dan Ariely
  19. The Second World War: A Complete History – Martin Gilbert
  20. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces – Steven Hoober
  21. L’uomo e la terra. Luci e ombre. – Edward Burtynsky
  22. Product Management for UX People – Christian Crumlish
  23. Deliberate Intervention – Alexandra Schmidt
  24. Conversational Design – Erika Hall
  25. Team Mastery – Geoff Watts
  26. Le parole sono finestre (oppure muri) – Marshall B. Rosenberg
  27. The Strategy Activation Playbook – Aric Wood
  28. The New CSS Layout – Rachel Andrew
  29. Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard
  30. L’arte della guerra – Sun Tzu
  31. Crescere i bambini con la comunicazione nonviolenta – Marshall B. Rosenberg
  32. Authentic communication – Alexei Ivanov, Sveta Shedina
  33. The Ameriguns – Gabriele Galimberti
  34. Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks – Paul Boag
  35. Responsible JavaScript – Jeremy Wagner
  36. SEO For Everyone – Rebekah Baggs & Chris Corak
  37. Better Onboarding – Krystal Higgins
  38. Sustainable Web Design – Tom Greenwood
  39. Progressive Web Apps – Jason Grigsby
  40. Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  41. Costituzione Italiana
  42. Design Systems – Alla Kholmatova
  43. Product-Led Onboarding – Ramli John
  44. Epic Alignment – Nils Janse
  45. Hiring Product Managers – Kate Leto
  46. Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
  47. HYPERGROWTH – David Cancel
  48. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
  49. Hieronymus Bosch: L’opera completa – Stefan Fischer
  50. Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  51. Made in Dance, 1991-1999 – Oleg Codikov
  52. Startup, Scaleup, Screwup – Jurgen Appelo
  53. Accessibility for Everyone – Laura Kalbag
  54. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  55. Scandinavian Style at Home – Allan Torp
  56. The Team That Managed Itself – Christina Wodtke
  57. L’unica regola è che non ci sono regole – Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
  58. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman” – Richard P. Feynman
  59. What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets – Peter Menzel
  60. The Workshopper Playbook – Jonathan Courtney
  61. Escaping the Build Trap – Melissa Perri
  62. Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives – Tom Roden & Ben Williams
  63. 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know – Gunther Verheyen
  64. The Serving Leader – Ken Jennings & John Stahl-Wert
  65. The Business of Platforms – Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer & David B. Yoffie
  66. Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting – Eilon Paz
  67. Free-Range Kids – Lenore Skenazy
  68. Start with Why – Simon Sinek
  69. 17 Anti-Procrastination Hacks – Dominic Mann
  70. Change by Design – Tim Brown
  71. Innovation Lab Excellence – Richard Turrin
  72. The FINTECH Book – Susanne Chishti & Janos Barberis
  73. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
  74. Management 3.0 – Jurgen Appelo
  75. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
  76. Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social – Jaron Lanier
  77. AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
  78. The New York Times Explorer Cities & Towns – Barbara Ireland
  79. Minimal Film – Matteo Civaschi
  80. Practical Design Discovery – Dan Brown
  81. Living in Information – Jorge Arango
  82. Everything is Negotiable – Gavin Kennedy
  83. The Growth Handbook – Intercom
  84. The Innovator’s Solution – Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
  85. JavaScript For Web Designers – Mat Marquis
  86. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark
  87. Striking Thoughts – Bruce Lee
  88. Practical SVG – Chris Coyier
  89. WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us – Tim O’Reilly
  90. Product Mastery – Geoff Watts
  91. A Practical Guide to Managing Web Projects – Breandan Knowlton
  92. Make Space – Scott Doorley & Scott Witthoft
  93. The Elements of Content Strategy – Erin Kissane
  94. Content Strategy for Mobile – Karen McGrane
  95. Data-Informed Product Design – Pamela Pavliscak
  96. Front-End Style Guides – Anna Debenham
  97. Product Leadership – Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw
  98. Le leggi della semplicità – John Maeda
  99. You Don’t Know JS – Kyle Simpson
  100. User Experience Revolution – Paul Boag
  101. The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Freelance Web Design Business – Cory Miller
  102. The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work – Zapier
  103. Thinking in JavaScript – Aravind Shenoy
  104. The Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers In Web Design
  105. The Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 2
  106. The Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 1
  107. The Smashing Book 4: New Perspectives on Web Design
  108. The Smashing Book 3: Redesign The Web
  109. The Smashing Book 2
  110. The Smashing Book 1
  111. The Smashing Book: Performance Optimization – Techniques And Strategies
  112. The Mobile Web Handbook – Peter-Paul Koch
  113. The Smashing Book: The Mobile Book
  114. I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks – Cory Miller
  115. Grow – Jim Stengel
  116. Getting Real – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson & Matthew Linderman
  117. Come funziona Google – Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
  118. Getting Paid Well To Do What You Love – Cory Miller
  119. The Entrepreneurial Adventure: Is It For You? – Cory Miller
  120. Digital Adaptation – Paul Boag
  121. Designing for Touch – Josh Clark
  122. Designing for Emotion – Aarron Walter
  123. The Conversation Company – Steven Van Belleghem
  124. Connect The Dots – Paul Jun
  125. Come imparare una cosa al giorno e non invecchiare mai – Roberto Vacca
  126. The Smashing Book: A Career On The Web – On The Road To Success
  127. Le 22 immutabili leggi del marketing – Al Ries & Jack Trout
  128. Style: Writing from the UnderGround – IGTimes
  129. M.C. Escher: Grafica e Disegni – Taschen
  130. Startup Opportunities – Sean Wise & Brad Feld
  131. Essential: Essays by The Minimalists – Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
  132. Git for Humans – David Demaree
  133. Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles – Ethan Marcotte
  134. Do the Work – Steven Pressfield
  135. Blind Spot – Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff & Sean Sauber
  136. Why We Fail – Victor Lombardi
  137. Hardboiled Web Design – Andrew Clarke
  138. Nocturnal: Global Highflyers – Phil Beddard
  139. Wall and Piece – Banksy
  140. USA On The Road – Insight Guides
  141. You Only Live Once – Lonely Planet
  142. Strengths Finder 2.0 – Gallup
  143. Poke the Box – Seth Godin
  144. We Are All Weird – Seth Godin
  145. V Is for Vulnerable – Seth Godin
  146. All Marketers Are Liars – Seth Godin
  147. Ignore Everybody – Hugh MacLeod
  148. Tribes – Seth Godin
  149. The Dip – Seth Godin
  150. Thinking With Type – Ellen Lupton
  151. The $1 Prototype – Greg Nudelman
  152. Lean UX – Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
  153. Microinteractions – Dan Saffer
  154. Badass: Making Users Awesome – Kathy Sierra
  155. High Performance Mobile Web – Maximiliano Firtman
  156. Using WebPageTest – Rick Viscomi, Andy Davies & Marcel Duran
  157. Discussing Design – Adam Connor & Aaron Irizarry
  158. Your Network Is Your Net Worth – Porter Gale
  159. Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 – Stoyan Stefanov
  160. Jamie‘s Italy – Jamie Oliver
  161. Scarcity – Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir 
  162. The Year Without Pants – Scott Berkun
  163. Professional WordPress – Brad Williams, David Damstra & Hal Stern
  164. Content Rules – Ann Handley & C. C. Chapman
  165. Illuminate – Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez
  166. Lean Websites – Barbara Bermes
  167. The Shape of Design – Frank Chimero
  168. Responsive Web Design – Ethan Marcotte
  169. HTML5 for Web Designers – Jeremy Keith & Rachel Andrew
  170. Digging Into WordPress – Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr
  171. Essential Zen Habits – Leo Babauta
  172. Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers
  173. The Leu Family’s Family Iron – Fabio Paleari
  174. Disruptive Marketing – Geoffrey Colon
  175. Extreme Teams – Robert Bruce Shaw
  176. Subway Art – Martha Cooper
  177. Career Renegade – Jonathan Fields
  178. Show Your Work! – Austin Kleon
  179. Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
  180. The Economics Book – DK Big Ideas
  181. The Philosophy Book – DK Big Ideas
  182. Practical Empathy – Indi Young
  183. The Conversation Manager – Steven Van Belleghem
  184. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking – Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
  185. On Bullshit – Harry G. Frankfurt
  186. How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
  187. Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life – Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
  188. Your Money: The Missing Manual – J.D. Roth
  189. This is Service Design Thinking – Jakob Schneider
  190. Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
  191. Learn Something Every Day – Kee Malesky
  192. The Art of Non-Conformity – Chris Guillebeau
  193. Hooked – Nir Eyal
  194. Mobile Usability – Jakob Nielsen & Raluca Budiu
  195. The Sketchnote Handbook – Mike Rohde
  196. Implementing Responsive Design – Tim Kadlec
  197. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People – Susan M. Weinschenk
  198. The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau
  199. The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferriss
  200. Getting Unstuck – Hugh Thompson & Bob Sullivan
  201. Getting Things Done – David Allen
  202. Designing the Search Experience – Tony Russell-Rose & Tyler Tate
  203. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk
  204. Knowledge Is Beautiful – David McCandless
  205. Information Is Beautiful – David McCandless

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