Skip to content

Recent Posts

  • WorldSys: Austrian Home Study Course, week 21
  • WorldSys: Austrian Home Study Course, Week 20
  • WorldSys: Austrian Home Study Course, Week 19
  • WorldSys: Austrian Home Study Course, Week 18
  • WorldSys: Austrian Home Study Course, Week 17

Archives

  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • January 2013
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012

Categories

  • AI
  • Art
  • Atheism
  • Austrian Economics
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Entrepreneurship
  • General Interest
  • History
  • Language Learning
  • Mind
  • Music
  • Peripateses
  • Personal
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Profundae
  • Programming
  • Psychology
  • Rationality
  • Religion
  • Science
  • STEMpunk
  • The Intelligence Explosion
  • Uncategorized
  • World Systems

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.com

Category: Language Learning

December 18, 2017

‘What Have You Been Reading?’

One of the first delightful surprises I had while living in Korea was learning that the Korean equivalent of ‘what’s up?’ is ‘밥 먹었어요?’, which translates to either ‘have you eaten?’ or ‘have you had any rice?’. It’s been decades since the tiger economies went hungry, but this linguistic fossil remains from an age when […]

Posted in General Interest, Language Learning, Psychology. Leave a comment
December 18, 2017

A Bookish Review of 2017

Counting books I’m currently in the middle of I have read 75 books this year. A few of these are children’s books in Russian and German so if we subtract those out it’s ~70. This includes three trilogies (Ramez Naam’s ‘Nexus’, Hannu Rajaniemi’s ‘Jean Le Flambeur’, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’), and one pentagy (George […]

Posted in General Interest, Language Learning, World Systems. Leave a comment
March 23, 2016March 25, 2016

Critique My Russian!

One of my ancillary goals for 2016 is to learn some Russian. I haven’t set any specific objectives because, next to my day job and The STEMpunk project Russian is a very minor pursuit. It would be cool, however, to maybe record a five minute conversation with a native speaker near the end of the year […]

Posted in General Interest, Language Learning. 1 Comment
Blog at WordPress.com. Rulers To The Sky