a collection of practices to expand our inner worlds.
i collect a lot of yumm media in arena. see it here here:)
a collection of practices to attune and exchange compassion with other human beans.
a collection of curious reads and media. for example:
- western body, eastern mind by anodea judish. notes.
- metarelational AI. notes.
- metaphors we live by by george lakoff and mark johnson. notes.
- [science] the computational boundary of the self by michael levin et al. notes.
- ai and the meaning crisis by john vervaeke et al. notes.
- [science] synthetic sentience and cyberanimism by joscha bach. notes.
- a psalm for the wild built - fiction novel about enlightened ai robots that left us to live in the woods. notes.
- stuck on the platform by geert lovink. notes.
- you are here by thich nat hann. notes.
- book of life by krishnamurti. notes.
- crane wife by cj hauser. notes.
- pleasure activism by adrienne maree brown. notes.
- can you imagine zine by sublime team. notes.
- existential kink by carolyn elliot. notes.
- [science] cognitive tools for making invisible visible by judy fan. notes.
- home-cooked software by maggie appleton. notes.
- [science] the entropic brain by carhart harris. notes.
- [science] how to change your mind by michael pollan. notes.
- inventing on principle by bret victor. notes.
- everything is a remix. video.
My World
here are some wonderful places and humans from my world and my relationship to them:
- Aletheia Unfolding.
- UIST - co-authored HCI science paper. read here.
- Andre Vacha - my design teacher.
- Rigdzin Mahamudra - Tibetan Buddhism meditation school. ask me for a link.
- Google - working as a Product Manager at Ads.
- Ukraine - born and raised with a family living in Chervonohrad; i welcome you asking me about the war. and i welcome your donations to support my Ukrainian buddies in war.
- Nikita Mehta - my yoga teacher who supports my unfolding as a teacher. she also teaches the Bhagavad Gita Class to our community in my living room (fractal uni style). tell me if you wanna study this - more classes are intending to come.
- Kathleen Wallace - my coach.
- Viktor Perminov - my non-duality and ego teacher.
- Sleepawake.camp - amazing school that helped me unfold fuller version of me.
- Church of Clown - taking Clown 2 classes.
- Minerva University - supervising a team of freshmen yearly. last year, my team built an AI Robot. this is one of most joy-bearing activities i do.
- Minerva University - graduated with a Computer Science (AI + Data Science) degree. was a TA for a bunch of programming and Data Science courses.
- Edge Esmeralda - hosted Pond Shrine in 2026.
- Machine Consiousness x CIMC - hosted Pond Shrine in 2026.
- Circus Center - acrobatics & handstands training with Christopher Roguskie.
- Google Women Techmakers - Scholar.
- Bessemer Ventures - a college fellow.
- European Youth Parliament - an ex-chairwoman and international delegate.
- Human Computer Integration lab at UChicago - co-authored a paper.
- Future Leaders Exchange Program - did an exchange for post-soviet high schoolers (me!) and studied in Ohio (weird i know). i was one of the hundred kids chosen and it was fully funded by the US government. (yes this is a flex^2 and a proud ownership of my unique what-some-may-call success story)
- ะะปะฐัั aka Plast - ukrainian scouts organization. as a teenager, i lived in the woods with 20 other friends and digged bathrooms and kitchen tables out of nothing. also they made us wake up in 5am and only gave 2 minutes to get fully ready for a trail run!!! it was lil ... military.
Featuring Me
- Walking the Artist's Path opf Consious Tech with Svitlana Midianko Interview (2026)
- Alumna Highlight: Svitlana Midianko. By Minerva Voices Essay. (2023)
- Svitlana Midianko: Finding Home Within Yourself. By Humans of Minerva Podcast. (2022)
i have been collecting yummy questions over the years.
i also have collecting prompts here svitlana.me/yummy-prompts.