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Nov. 26, 2014
Nicholas Floyd
Biography
Nicholas Floyd was born in the Midwest of the United States of America, where he lived an uneventful two decades until, as a young college student, he received sage advice from a fellow Midwestern native who had fled to California and who insisted that Nicholas likewise “get the hell outta the Midwest”. Nicholas overshot California and the entire Pacific Ocean, landing in Japan, where he lived on and off for five years collectively. During that time, he achieved fluency in Japanese thanks to sage advice from a different friend, who had previously lived in Japan and who insisted, “Don’t hang out with other foreigners.”
In the US and Japan, Nicholas worked full-time as a systems administrator, and during his mid-twenties he spent several years traveling the world competing as a nationally ranked video game tournament player, but he ultimately gave up the hobby in pursuit of other interests, such as piano composition and photography.
During his late twenties, he toiled over the inverse correlation of his steadily increasing net worth and his steadily decreasing net happiness, and it became obvious that neither spending forty hours per week in an office nor the corporate world in general tickled his fancy. So at the age of thirty, he left a successful and promising career in IT to pursue a lifelong passion far less lucrative but far more enjoyable: writing.
He is particularly interested in anthropology, human sexuality, healthy living, sustainability and minimalism, studies of consciousness (waking, dreaming, and altered states), the beneficial uses of psychedelics, and drug policy reform.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, as well as a minor in Mathematics, both of which are now collecting dust. He happily resides in a tiny apartment on the island of Oahu.
In the US and Japan, Nicholas worked full-time as a systems administrator, and during his mid-twenties he spent several years traveling the world competing as a nationally ranked video game tournament player, but he ultimately gave up the hobby in pursuit of other interests, such as piano composition and photography.
During his late twenties, he toiled over the inverse correlation of his steadily increasing net worth and his steadily decreasing net happiness, and it became obvious that neither spending forty hours per week in an office nor the corporate world in general tickled his fancy. So at the age of thirty, he left a successful and promising career in IT to pursue a lifelong passion far less lucrative but far more enjoyable: writing.
He is particularly interested in anthropology, human sexuality, healthy living, sustainability and minimalism, studies of consciousness (waking, dreaming, and altered states), the beneficial uses of psychedelics, and drug policy reform.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, as well as a minor in Mathematics, both of which are now collecting dust. He happily resides in a tiny apartment on the island of Oahu.
Where to find Nicholas Floyd online
Website: https://nicholasfloyd.com
Books
You Can't Spell Tokyo Without K.O.
by Nicholas Floyd
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 9,500.
Language:
English.
Published: June 10, 2016
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Asia, Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Photography - Photo books
Why do the Japanese routinely pass out on the streets, on trains, in restaurants, in bushes, and almost anywhere else imaginable? You Can’t Spell Tokyo Without KO embarks on an eye-opening journey where social commentary and candid street photography explore the various societal factors — some enviable, some alarming — that contribute to Tokyo’s epidemic of passing out in public.
Seven Nights with Ayahuasca
by Nicholas Floyd
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 59,180.
Language:
English.
Published: April 1, 2015
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Alternative medicine, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Body, mind, & spirit » Entheogens & visionary substances
(4.00 from 1 review)
Nicholas Floyd plunges headfirst into the ancient shamanic ritual of ingesting Ayahuasca, a medicinal and extremely potent psychedelic brew that thrusts him into a profound introspective journey of euphoric epiphanies and heart-wrenching visions. Forced to confront himself for the first time, he emerges from the emotional crucible as a man reformed in ways that he never predicted.