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Essays
Rolling Up Your Sleeves: Lessons From Launching Umbrella Real Estate
Building Strategy-First, Design-Driven Brands with Duomo Branding
Turning Business Vision into Form with Duomo
Untold Journeys: Timofei & Ilia Sheludiakov
Pure Nerve: The Noovitalist Manifesto — a reader’s review
Stoa in a guide to philosophy reading
Pure Nerve: independent thought, freedom and responsibility
Updated 4 November 2026 · Book-launch republications are collected in one entry.
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Short biography
Timofei Sheludiakov is a writer and independent philosopher based in Dubai. He is the author of Pure Nerve: The Noovitalist Manifesto and the founder of Stoa, a free online academy. His work explores education, independent judgment, creative living, and the relationship between thought and experience.
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Timofei Sheludiakov is a writer and independent philosopher based in Dubai. He is the author of Pure Nerve: The Noovitalist Manifesto and the founder of Stoa, a free online academy. His work explores education, independent judgment, creative living, and the relationship between thought and experience. He writes essays and short fiction, with work published on Medium, Substack, and in The Table Read Magazine. Through Stoa, he works to make fundamental knowledge accessible through guided learning paths and an open reading library. His educational interests include the history of ideas and the role of human examples in expanding a person’s sense of what is possible. His philosophical position, Noovitalism, considers how understanding, vitality, will, and responsibility shape a life. Alongside his public and literary work, he is co-founder and managing partner of Umbrella Real Estate in Dubai.
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Conversation topics
- Noovitalism: understanding, vitality, and a creative life.
- Stoa and the public responsibility of making knowledge accessible.
- Heroic education, human examples, and independent judgment.
- Writing fiction, cultivating taste, and the work of revision.