I spent most of my teen years away from Russia but Moscow was my home. I was studying abroad — first in the US, then England — but would be back In Moscow for every school break. I missed Moscow during my boarding school years and missed it even more…

Today I met with a schoolmate from a quarter of a century ago. I attended a boarding school in England, and several months ago, he reached out to me with a potential consulting project for the company he works for. Last night, he flew into Miami, and, conveniently, I am…

If you follow me, you know I love running. I run a lot, and I run consistently. Every day. In recent years, I’ve become a very good runner. I’m not elite, of course, but at forty-three years of age, I belong to a tiny fraction of runners whose passion for…

I’m stealing this thought from a story I came across a few days ago. I wish I saved it. It resonated so strongly. I’m not an elite runner, but I’ve earned my right to talk about running. Four sub three-hour-hour marathons in two years, in my forties. I PRed every…

Today, on social media, I saw that August and Everything After by Counting Crows is thirty years old. I don’t need a special “listen” of this album — it’s on my playlist, and its songs come up all the time when I drive or run. Oh, well, today, after seeing…

I came across a very profound video recently. I’ll post the link shortly, but I wanted first to acknowledge my mistake. In one of my recent stories, I bashed Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur who’s trying to reverse aging: The story about the millionaire-CEO spending millions to reverse aging — uninspiring and… Twilightalexeisorokinstories.medium.com I had scanned a few sensations headlines about him (a tech millionaire…

I’m alluding to the quote “to live is to suffer”. Do some people have it easy? Are there people who look at their current life or the life they’ve lived who can say that it’s been an easy journey? I’ve had a rough week. I don’t want to go into…

In many ways, the goal feels more incredible than my other improvements in the last three years, but maybe that’s because those other achievements are already behind me and part of my identity. I started running a lot in the spring of 2020, the infamous “pandemic” year. I wrote many…

I guess some people do find their calling. I’m thinking of athletes and artists, like musicians. Their jobs are their lives and lifestyles. The quote you hear often find what you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life applies to them. What I’ve learned…