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.
26. januar 2024100% inputAthenaze, a Latin reading circle, and why the dead languages have better textbooks than the living ones.
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 from Stockholm as a first opera, Figaro two weeks later, then L'elisir d'amore with live translation on the couch.