About the book: 2023 / Collection of two short stories. "To Understand" is a story about the work of those who explore new planets, search for another Mind and try to find an approach to establishing contacts based on studying the life of alien beings from within their community. "Bankos" - a sketch about an attempt to study the activities of a small bank, with the aim of optimizing and increasing the efficiency of workers in a non-standard way by replacing people with robots.