Reading notes on Romance of the Three Kingdoms: delving deep into the strategic chess game at Red Cliffs, distinguishing between later 'embellished' plots and the original text, and interpreting the novel's mystical elements and artistic license
Reading notes on Homo Deus: Yuval Noah Harari explores humanity's new agenda — from conquering famine and plague to humanism, and how Dataism reshapes future society
Reading notes on Chimpanzee Politics: through observations of chimpanzee communities, revealing power alliances, triangular relationships, and the biological roots of political behavior — reflecting on human social power structures
Reading notes on Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? — challenging the assumption of human uniqueness by revealing that tool use, language, cooperation, and more are not exclusively human, through primate behavior experiments
Reading notes on 2001: A Space Odyssey — marveling at Arthur C. Clarke's astonishingly prescient predictions from the 1960s, from AI to tablet computers, and the TMA-1 monolith as the core sci-fi conceit