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. Sass for Web Designers – Dan Cederholm
  22. Demystifying Public Speaking – Lara Hogan
  23. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love – Marty Cagan
  24. Atomic Design – Brad Frost
  25. Resilient Web Design – Jeremy Keith
  26. Intercom on Product Management
  27. Intercom On Starting Up
  28. Building a Device Lab – Destiny Montague & Lara Hogan
  29. Design for Real Life – Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  30. Resilient Management – Lara Hogan
  31. Essentialism – Greg McKeown
  32. Material World: A Global Family Portrait – Peter Menzel
  33. Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban – Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
  34. Strategize – Roman Pichler
  35. How to Lead in Product Management – Roman Pichler
  36. La guerra nel team – Patrick Lencioni
  37. Empowered – Marty Cagan
  38. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
  39. Outcomes Over Output – Joshua Seiden
  40. Reinventing Organizations – Frederic Laloux
  41. This Is Lean – Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström
  42. Continuous Discovery Habits – Teresa Torres
  43. Understanding Privacy – Heather Burns
  44. You’re My Favorite Client – Mike Monteiro
  45. Just Enough Research – Erika Hall
  46. Design Is a Job – Mike Monteiro
  47. Evidence-Guided – Itamar Gilad
  48. Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories – Gojko Adzic & David Evans
  49. Impact Mapping – Gojko Adzic
  50. Agile Product Management with Scrum – Roman Pichler
  51. Unsubscribe – Jocelyn K Glei

Mixed Books

  1. Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  2. Product Operations – Melissa Perri & Denise Tilles
  3. Job Moves – Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta
  4. A Pocket Guide to Front-End Style Guides
  5. Surviving Change at Work
  6. Lizard Optimization: Unlock Product Growth By Engaging Long-Tail Users
  7. Everyday Information Architecture
  8. The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter: Volume 1
  9. Flexible Typesetting
  10. Going Offline
  11. Walden
  12. Le 7 regole per avere successo
  13. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
  14. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
  15. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves – Dan Ariely
  16. The Second World War: A Complete History – Martin Gilbert
  17. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces
  18. Edward Burtynsky. L’uomo e la terra. Luci e ombre.
  19. Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World
  20. Deliberate Intervention: Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology
  21. Conversational Design
  22. Team Mastery: From Good to Great Agile Teamwork
  23. Le parole sono finestre (oppure muri). Introduzione alla comunicazione nonviolenta
  24. The Strategy Activation Playbook
  25. The New CSS Layout
  26. Let my people go surfing. La filosofia di un imprenditore ribelle
  27. L’arte della guerra
  28. Crescere i bambini con la Comunicazione Nonviolenta
  29. Authentic communication. The practice of honest and careful communication – Alexei Ivanov, Sveta Shedina
  30. The Ameriguns – Gabriele Galimberti
  31. Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks
  32. Responsible JavaScript
  33. SEO For Everyone
  34. Better Onboarding
  35. Sustainable Web Design
  36. Progressive Web Apps
  37. Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  38. Costituzione Italiana
  39. Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products
  40. Product-Led Onboarding: How to Turn New Users Into Lifelong Customers (ProductLed Library Book 3)
  41. Epic Alignment
  42. Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills
  43. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t – Simon Sinek
  44. HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands
  45. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
  46. Hieronymus Bosch: L’opera completa
  47. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  48. Made in Dance, 1991-1999
  49. Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean and Agile Business Growth
  50. Accessibility for Everyone
  51. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
  52. Scandinavian Style at Home: A Room-by-Room Guide
  53. The Team That Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership
  54. L’unica regola è che non ci sono regole: Netflix e la cultura della reinvenzione
  55. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”: Adventures of a Curious Character – Richard P. Feynman
  56. What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
  57. The Workshopper Playbook
  58. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
  59. Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
  60. 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
  61. The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
  62. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
  63. Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting
  64. Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts With Worry)
  65. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
  66. 17 Anti-Procrastination Hacks: How to Stop Being Lazy, Overcome Procrastination, and Finally Get Stuff Done
  67. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation – Tim Brown
  68. Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within
  69. The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries – Susanne Chishti, Janos Barberis
  70. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
  71. Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders – Jurgen Appelo
  72. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
  73. Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social
  74. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
  75. The New York Times Explorer Cities & Towns
  76. Minimal Film: The Cinematic World Reimagined through Graphic Design
  77. Practical Design Discovery
  78. Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places
  79. Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time – Gavin Kennedy
  80. The Growth Handbook
  81. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
  82. JavaScript For Web Designers
  83. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
  84. Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living (The Bruce Lee Library) – Bruce Lee
  85. Practical SVG
  86. WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
  87. Product Mastery: From Good To Great Product Ownership
  88. A Practical Guide to Managing Web Projects
  89. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
  90. The Elements of Content Strategy
  91. Content Strategy for Mobile
  92. Data-Informed Product Design
  93. Front-End Style Guides
  94. Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
  95. Le leggi della semplicità
  96. You Don’t Know JS: Up & Going
  97. User Experience Revolution (Smashing eBooks)
  98. The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Freelance Web Design Business
  99. The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work: How to Grow, Manage, and Work with Remote Teams (Zapier App Guides Book 3)
  100. Thinking in JavaScript
  101. Smashing Book #6: New Frontiers in Web Design
  102. Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 2
  103. Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 1
  104. The Smashing Book #4 – New Perspectives on Web Design
  105. Redesign The Web (The Smashing Book 3)
  106. The Smashing Book #2
  107. The Smashing Book #1
  108. Performance Optimization: Techniques And Strategies (Smashing eBooks)
  109. The Mobile Web Handbook
  110. The Mobile Book
  111. I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks
  112. Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies
  113. Getting Real
  114. Come funziona Google (Italian Edition)
  115. Getting Paid Well To Do What You Love
  116. Freelancing for beginners – What Freelancers Need to Know when starting a Freelancing Business
  117. The Entrepreneurial Adventure: Is It For You?
  118. Digital Adaptation
  119. Designing for Touch
  120. Designing for Emotion
  121. The Conversation Company: Boost Your Business Through Culture, People and Social Media
  122. Connect The Dots: Strategies and Meditations On Self-education
  123. Come imparare una cosa al giorno e non invecchiare mai
  124. A Career On The Web: On The Road To Success (Smashing eBooks)
  125. Le 22 immutabili leggi del marketing. Se le ignorate, è a vostro rischio e pericolo!
  126. Style: Writing from the UnderGround
  127. M.C. Escher: Grafica e Disegni
  128. Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job
  129. Essential: Essays by The Minimalists
  130. Git for Humans (A Book Apart #17)
  131. Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
  132. Responsible Responsive Design
  133. Mobile First
  134. Do the Work
  135. Blind Spot
  136. Why We Fail: Learning From Experience Design Failures
  137. Hardboiled Web Design
  138. Nocturnal: Global Highflyers
  139. Wall and Piece
  140. USA on the Road (Insight Guides)
  141. You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us
  142. Strengths Finder 2.0
  143. Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
  144. We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal
  145. V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone
  146. All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works—and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
  147. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
  148. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  149. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
  150. Thinking With Type
  151. The $1 Prototype: A Modern Approach to Mobile UX Design and Rapid Innovation for
  152. Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
  153. Microinteractions: Designing with Details
  154. Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance
  155. Badass: Making Users Awesome
  156. High Performance Mobile Web: Best Practices for Optimizing Mobile Web Apps
  157. Using WebPageTest: Web Performance Testing for Novices and Power Users
  158. Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed
  159. Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique
  160. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
  161. Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age
  162. Web Performance Daybook Volume 2
  163. Jamie‘s Italy
  164. Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
  165. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
  166. Professional WordPress: Design and Development
  167. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
  168. Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your CareerBusiness Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career
  169. Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols
  170. Lean Websites: Because Web Performance Simply Matters
  171. The Shape of Design
  172. Responsive Web Design
  173. HTML5 for Web Designers
  174. The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life
  175. Digging Into WordPress
  176. Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly
  177. Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers
  178. The Leu Family’s Family Iron – Fabio Paleari
  179. Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal
  180. Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
  181. Subway Art
  182. Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
  183. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
  184. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
  185. The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
  186. The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
  187. Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
  188. The Conversation Manager: The Power of the Modern Consumer, the End of the Traditional Advertiser
  189. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
  190. On Bullshit
  191. How to Win Friends & Influence People
  192. Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
  193. Your Money: The Missing Manual
  194. This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
  195. Web Performance in Action: Building Faster Web Pages
  196. The Design of Everyday Things
  197. Delivering Happiness
  198. Learn Something Every Day
  199. The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (Perigee Book.)
  200. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
  201. Mobile Usability
  202. The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking
  203. Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web (Voices That Matter)
  204. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
  205. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  206. Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book: Make a World
  207. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
  208. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
  209. Getting Unstuck: Break Free of the Plateau Effect
  210. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  211. Designing the Search Experience: The Information Architecture of Discovery
  212. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
  213. Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections—Visualized
  214. Information Is Beautiful

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