Writing
Long-form Writing
Technical notes, project retrospectives, and developing ideas.
01 Why Things Smell Good or Bad: From Jasmine to Feces Fragrant and foul are not properties of molecules but stamps the brain applies. Recognizing an odor and liking it run on separate tracks: genes decide what you detect, experience decides how you judge it. 02 When a System of Evaluation Becomes the World The slowness of a village and the anxiety of the technological age may look opposed, yet both can make a local measure of life feel like the whole world. 03 Rehumanizing Public Discussion: How to Criticize Without Making an Enemy Addressing the issue rather than the person is not a polite slogan but a method for keeping criticism accurate, allowing correction, and reducing collective harm. 04 How 3D Surround Sound Makes Sound Appear Outside the Head Headphones still have only left and right drivers, yet sound can appear above, behind, or across a room. The explanation lies in the cues the brain uses for direction and how a system recomputes them as the head moves. 05 Reorganizing Life Amid Uncertainty When an explanation of effort, success, and belonging loses credibility, the individual must reorganize not only ideas but also action coordinates, risk judgments, and identity. 06 When “Effort Brings Reward” Becomes a Form of Violence The problem with meritocracy is not that it encourages effort, but that it treats success as deserved and failure as guilt. 07 When Issues Become Identities: How Online Discussion Moves Toward Polarization When an issue becomes an identity, discussion moves from solving a concrete problem toward confirming who belongs to which side. Understanding the mechanism matters more than fighting over a label. 08 What the Jiang Ping Case Shows About a Media Machine That Creates and Destroys Heroes Why did one person move from an inspirational symbol to a target of attack within months? Restoring the timeline, evidence levels, and responsibility chain shows that hero-making and hero-destruction use the same machine.