My favorite story by Umair Haque

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readJan 4, 2022

Now, a confession. I’d not be here on Medium if it weren’t for Umair. I signed up for the platform a couple of years ago and enjoyed it as a reader. Umair, with his dark collapse porn, caught my attention early on and I’d follow him — on and off — for months. He fascinated me and annoyed me. Medium and Umair became kind of synonymous, in the early stages of my Medium journey.

Then I started mocking Umair in my comments on his stories — not that he gives a shit about my comments. His darkness is so ridiculous, predictable, and repetitive, that I couldn’t help reacting to…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/