In English · nine pieces, as written
In English
I tell people I'm currently giving myself the high school education I never got. Not just ancient languages, but an actual overview of world history, literary movements, reading the literary greats, understanding how to approach poetry, classical music...
Written in English, on X (@houshuang) and in the newsletter Networked Thought, 2020–2026 · published here as written, not translated
22. april 2025The high school education I never gotFrom «never too late» in June 2020 to «in five years, you'll be five years older no matter what» in 2025: threads about starting late and building the education I never got.
10. januar 2025How to read a playFrom «I find it very hard to read and enjoy a play» in April 2024 to twenty plays a year later, and the one piece of advice that helped: be patient, keep reading, it comes together.
24. februar 2025The language learning holy grailParallel texts, Anki verses, the New Testament in Greek, and a method for reading in another language.
6. april 2020Learning effectively with podcastsWalks, a lecture series of 50 episodes, voice notes, and how the notes are processed days later.
7. april 2026The anchor strategyCrete, the fog-of-war map, Charlemagne as an anchor, why hooks need a skeleton, and reading by the fireplace. Excerpts about method from a 2026 essay.
30. juli 2025Reading Plato where it happenedThirty days in Athens in the summer of 2025: an 1872 Plato from an auction, a bookbinder, Elektra and Oedipus in Epidaurus, and the dialogues read on the spots where they are set.
25. august 2026A map for one readerSicily in June with a guide that exists in no app store — and the Norman king, the Arab geographer and the Athenian actor who kept turning up in it
22. april 2025Opera with a ten-year-oldThe Barber of Seville as a first opera, Figaro two weeks later, then L'elisir d'amore with live translation on the couch.