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Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko: A Summary

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Raleigh's next interview in his book was with Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko. Arkadii has had a difficult life, being forced to change his entire career path multiple times, working as a nuclear physicist, then as an institute specialist, and finally as a computer programmer, starting from near scratch every time. He identified these changes in trajectory to be one of the biggest influences in his life, as he was forced to learn how to adapt even when he believed it beyond him. Born in Siberia, where his father worked in one of the gulags until he had worked off his debt, his father taught him the importance of independence, which was a skill Arkadii later required in spades to negotiate changes without becoming entangled in the Communist Party.

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