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TheTell
Rado Sheytanoff in a smoke-filled room, gesturing toward an empty chair lit by a single lamp

RadoSheytanoff

I read people, break systems, and build what's next, all under one name.

[ 01 ]The thesis

A mentalist, a hacker, a developer. It looks scattered. It isn't. It's one mind running through all of it.

A tell is the thing you give away without meaning to. I find it, in a person or in a system, and I build with what I learn. Two of these crafts uncover what's hidden; the third creates what comes next. Same instinct, three registers.

Dublin, Ireland· Worldwide

Rado Sheytanoff, hand to chin, holding a direct gaze.
Subject · one operator
The method

One instinct. Three places to use it.

[ 02 ]Work · proof of the thesis

What falls out when you read people and build systems together.

Three live projects from that overlap. Open them and judge the work for yourself.

ProductsShipping, with their own users.
CommissionsBuilt under another name.
The through-line
Everyone leaves a tell. I find it, in a person or in a system, and build with what I learn.
[ 03 ]Proof · across the crafts

Proof across the crafts

Rooms I've worked in

  • WHOOP
  • McKinsey & Company
  • Meta
  • Workday
  • SMFL
500+
events performed
7+
countries
1
operator behind all of it
[ 04 ]Notes · free to read

The working notes behind all of it, handed over.

Long-form write-ups from the three crafts — the setups I actually run, what they cost me, and what broke the first time. Nothing here is gated and nothing asks for your email.

  • Working with AI

    You are overpaying for Higgsfield. You don't have to!

    Their everyday plan is €59 a month. Most months you will not use a tenth of it. Here is the free setup I use instead, where the same models cost a few cents a picture and nothing at all in a month you make nothing. It is one paste, and the assistant builds the rest.

    10 min read
Read all the notes1 note · always free
[ 05 ]Who is this, really
Portrait of Rado Sheytanoff seated beside a warm lamp, direct eye contact
Rado Sheytanoff

I only ever learned one thing. The rest is where I pointed it.

I read people for a living. On stage, as a mentalist, I name thoughts that were never spoken aloud. The same instinct runs the other direction in security work: I find what a system gives away without meaning to, the tell it tried to bury, and prove how an attacker would use it.

And I build. Product engineering is the third discipline, the place where I make systems instead of breaking them, on a phone or in a browser. Human mastery and technical mastery in one head: that's the whole point, and it's the part that's hard to replace.

[ 06 ]Contact

Tell me what you need. I'll take it from here.

Same day · one inbox, mine

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