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Earlier this year, an IT engineer named Roman Paramov was about to start a new job.

Roman's from Ukraine. He studied nuclear engineering in Kiev,

and then he built a successful career in IT. He worked remotely for a ton of Western companies.

This February, Roman was about to make a big move.

To Philadelphia, to work for a major Fortune 500 company.

And he was literally, he had the business ready, he was moving his family,

everything was all systems go, and then the war broke out.

And he, like many talented Ukrainian engineers,

decided that it was his patriotic duty to not move and be comfortable in the West,

but to go back and fight.

That's Jillian Tet, FT columnist, and chair of our US editorial board.

Jillian recently featured Roman in a piece she wrote about how Ukraine is fighting a new type of war.

I've linked to it in the show notes.

Jillian has been reporting on post-Soviet countries for decades,

and she's been really taken by the way Ukraine is fighting back against Russia.

It's unusual. It reminds her of the open-source spirit of the internet.

Much of the defense of Ukraine has come about not because of top-down orders or vertical hierarchies,

but because of bottom-up improvisation by a huge number of digital savvy people working in the

Ukrainian military. And what's fascinating is that this network goes all the way over to Silicon Valley,

and has brought in a lot of the techy entrepreneurs who've been driving American innovation

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