Siberia keeps better secrets than Silicon Valley
Short papers on subjects I keep returning to in practice and research. Some begin in contemporary Western science. Others in Russian and Soviet literature that remains difficult to reach in English.
For years, I have travelled east to learn from physicians, scientists and practitioners whose work has rarely crossed into English.
Somewhere between Silicon Valley and Siberia, I became less interested in optimisation and more interested in adaptation.
Some of what I encounter is old. Some distinctly Russian or Soviet. And some survives through traditions passed from person to person rather than through journals, conferences or English-language textbooks.
The question is simple: what is worth understanding before we rush to apply it?
Adaptation. Hypoxia. Recovery. The nervous system. Regeneration. Visceral practice. The ways a human organism responds when its environment changes.
My Russian and Siberian training has given me a different lens on physical processes, rhythm, adaptation and recovery. I do not dismiss an idea because its language is unfamiliar. Nor do I pretend that every idea carries the same weight of evidence.
My work is to learn, question and compare — and to carry useful ideas across borders in both directions.
The Siberian Briefs
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The Science of Adaptation — what I went East to learn about how the human body responds to stress, challenge and recovery.
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