at home in…, w| Gerald Zhang-Schmidt

Being interested in personal development and the creation of better lives, Tim Ferriss is someone to watch. Between the surprise success of “The 4-Hour Work-Week” and his third and latest (and highly recommendable) “The 4-Hour Chef,” in the course of which he’s been shifting towards a somewhat better understanding of life not being just about [...]

… or, Everyday Life Lessons with a Sharp Blade Talk is going around about the demise of guys; men have apparently gone missing – and the images by which advertising and TV shows portray manly men are at least as dumbfounding as the impossible women they present. In such everyday things as personal hygiene, things [...]

Recently, Chinese has been in the news quite a bit as a newly popular language among foreign language learners. At least, in a way. Numbers of actual learners may have risen tremendously percentage-wise, but they are still small. No wonder, with Chinese being considered one of the hardest languages to learn. Of course, that also makes [...]

Somehow, in a bout of bad timing, I got quite out of language learning at just the time the internet made it ever easier to seek out other languages. Not only that, with the web there was (and is) even a community of people who define themselves as polyglots and language learners, who support and [...]

I’ve been thinking of dying. Not that I want to, not that there are any terminal conditions that I know of (except for life itself) – but time passes, age advances, and awareness of our mortality is one of those things that make us human, after all. The desire to have children, to leave ideas [...]