Now

This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’ “/now page movement.” It serves as a personal reminder to stay focused and a public declaration of my priorities by logging current interests and ideas that haven’t yet materialized into full posts. Current as of the date herein.

Writings

• An article on how to understand and make use of Hacker News.

Books & Media

• Platonic trinity of Symposium, Lysis, and Phaedrus

  Topic noted after reading Anne Carson’s book.

  Text:

  • By Benjamin Jowett: Wikisource
  • By W. R. M. Lamb: Scaife (a digital library of Greek and Latin classics)
  • By 朱光潜

  Resources:

  • Differentiating between agape, eros, philia, and storge
  • Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues [PDF]

• Elena Ferrante’s works

  • The Lost Daughter (Reviews: NYBR)
    • Movie (Reviews: New Yorker)
  • Interview of Elena Ferrante by the Paris Review (2015) (available in Chinese)
  • Anonymity
    • The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante

• Tits Up (Reviews: NYT, New Yorker)

Learning

• The Latin language

  Half-heartedly following Lingua Latina per se illustrata, a “natural method” text book written in Latin (via a comment on HN).

• Dataviz

Fiddling

• Fix broken images on this blog.