People first · Technology in context

See the experience. Then build the system.

I’m Nazar. I tend to see everything as a system. I explore how technology can shape those systems around a better experience for the people using them.

Black-and-white portrait of Nazar Khomyshyn sitting on rocks beside a lake, in a dark jacket and jeans, looking out across the water.
Curiosity is where it starts.
Nazar.

In tech since thirteen.
Still asking what we could make.

Thinking aloud. Building in practice.Take a look around

The part that stays human

01 · Define the experience

Without your direction, the tool fills the gaps with what is familiar.

Add your vision
02 · Design the system

A collection of tools is not yet a system.

Begin with the experience

How I see it

Design the response before the workflow.

I start with the person. How should they feel? What would create that feeling? What should they understand or do next? Those answers shape the experience. Then I design the workflow and choose the tools that can make it happen.

Where this way of thinking comes from

Why I am building Life OS

More calm. Less to carry.

I wanted to enjoy the work and slow down, even as information and tools kept speeding up. Life OS is the private agentic assistant system I am building to hold context, run the workflows I define, and surface what needs my attention.

Privacy, private backups, and the freedom to change AI providers are part of the design. Life OS keeps evolving as I learn what actually helps.

More about Life OS
Designed from the outcomeLife OS · Ongoing
01
Desired feeling

Calm. Joy. Room to think.

02
Supporting behavior

Capture context. Run workflows. Monitor signals. Trigger automations.

03
Conditions for trust

Private. Privately backed up. Provider agnostic.

Life OSMy private agentic assistant system
A personal system, always improving.

How an idea becomes a system

Start with the person.
Then follow the flow.

Bring an idea of your own. Move from the experience you want to create to the behavior, workflow and tools that can support it.

Step 1 of 3

Name the experience.

What should a person feel, understand, or be able to do when this works?

Try this

Choose one person. Write one feeling and one practical change you want for them.

Something to take with you

Think of one idea you want to build. Type what the person using it should be able to do in the highlighted field.

“When this works, the person using it will be able to .”

For example: find the answer without searching five different places.

This is just for you. Nothing you type is sent or saved.

The Journal

There’s a story behind the system.

Choose by the attention you have, not by what’s newest.

A few honest answers.

A set of decisions about what someone should be able to do, how they should feel along the way, and how the parts work together to make that possible. The tools matter, but they come after that picture is clear.

AI can help me explore, build and connect the pieces. It does not decide what experience is worth creating. That starts with understanding the person who will use it.

People who want to build useful things and think more clearly about how to do it. You do not need to know every tool or have the whole plan before you start.

It is the private system I’m building to connect my ideas, projects and everyday work. I share selected decisions and lessons from the build, while the system and personal information stay private.

You can build a system shaped around your own life or work. I’m sharing how I think through the decisions, not offering my private system as a template to copy.

The longer thinking behind the work: decisions, experiments, things that needed rethinking, and ideas you might take into your own projects.

Not right now. I’m sharing the work because I want people to feel curious about what they could build, even if they’ve assumed they couldn’t do it themselves. That does not mean doing every part alone. It means knowing what you want to create, understanding the choices behind it, and being able to judge whether what a person or an AI builds actually serves someone. That is the human part I want to keep in view as we build with AI.

Follow what I’m thinking through next.

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