Some evenings are for Mishima by the water. Others are for brutal execution: applications, emails, edits, and forcing the future into existence.

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Now planning 5 days from SF to LA and seriously considering a return to motels / hostels / improvised sleep systems.

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7/11 coffee, 3 French vanilla creamers, and 2 hot dogs for 4 dollars or so

Took them to the water. Stood gloomily in the rain and got a little soaked for the sake of work. Then the gulls arrived loud, hungry, shameless. If they don’t scream like this, they probably don’t survive

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Rainy San Francisco conference evening: socializing first, then long walks, 7/11 hot dogs, giant coffee, cheap IPA (by Californian standards), and dancing alone in my black blazer with my dead Apple Watch on a mint strap.

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Alexander Fedorov, PhD - CV

Polishing my CV. Marriott evening after a long and very social conference day.

Met Prof. Mark Bray and Ruth Hayhoe. Discussed #RaveAsMethod. Rainy evening in SF. Now I’m walking, writing diaries, #TravelAsNonMethod. Thinking about how to drive to LA—and whether the weather will be good.

#CIES2026

Spent 15 dollars on a candy-cheesecake, a 0.33 nitro cold brew, and a lighter. This is not okay, California.

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California is beautiful enough to feel spiritual and optimized enough to distrust the feeling immediately. That is annoying.

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Hong Kong. Breathe in the salty air briefly. Then motion again: Australian immigration, banks, Marriott Bonvoy—long time no see.

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#AI #TTS #writing #Dropbox #TravelAsNonMethod

A narrow Kathmandu alley at night, wet stone pavement reflecting streetlights, with shuttered shops, tangled wires, and a few people walking through the dim glow

I learned long ago that there are two ways to live: effectively and interestingly. One runs on repetition, efficiency, and the learning curve; the other on novelty, intensity, and the strange expansion of subjective life through memory. Nepal gave me both.

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My integrative theme of the last 3–4 years: structured pleasure.

Buddhism, travel, raves, writing—different technologies, same aim: desire without collapse.

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Weathered sign on a stone wall reads ‘DO NOT STOP / KEEP GOING SLOWLY.’

Wide Himalayan valley with snow-covered ridges under a clear blue sky

Snowy mountain face in cold blue light against a clear sky

Narrow metal suspension bridge with prayer flags leading toward a rocky cliff

I’m getting older and less tolerant of repeated behavior.
1 time = coincidence, 2 = pattern, 3 = rule.
No wonder this sociologist escapes to the mountains: fewer people, fewer rules.

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4 rules for staying alive (field-tested on the road, over many years):

1. Shape your environment.
2. Keep rules minimal and repeatable.
3. Protect sovereignty.
4. Ship something real. (Tangible + emotionally true.)

#Top3 #Asana #ShippingList #TravelAsNonMethod #RaveAsMethod

Kathmandu, as always. Bouda, masala chai, light chaos.
Sensory overwhelmed, delighted, dazed—and not confused.

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This’s why affect explains “why travel” and “why rave” best.

#TravelAsNonMethod isn’t really about places—it’s about state transitions.
#RaveAsMethod isn’t really about music—it’s about collective modulation: how a crowd, a rhythm, and a temporary village reorganise attention, belonging, aliveness.

this year (the first one was spring 2025, I reckon) + a few meta-chapters.
Basically, a productivity diary disguised as a travel/wellness report, coming out on a platform where I’ve had a loyal audience of a few hundred readers for over a decade.
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