Japanese books

A Japanese language learning journey

Kanzen Masuta N1

N3 shin kanzen masuta bunpo and N2, Korean idioms book

N2 listening

Nihongo sou matome N5

list of Kanzen Masuta series

korede gokaku eiken

Japanese update

 In Japanese, I am moving into phrases. Sometimes I understand few words but not the exact thing about the sentence. It is funny but interesting. sentences

I have been watching Chinese videos too during exercise. I am alos learning Kanji through Heisig. Even part 2 is interesting now. 

Vocabulary is fun too.

Sometimes elbow grease is the thing to make some headway.

Sometimes idioms, watching subtitles in videos, listening. Its been 3 and half weeks since I practised writign Japanese but I knew that I was practising in all other ways. Repeating sentences from the video after listening to them. I didnt feel that I was out of touch since I was practising in so many ways. In movies, I am now noticing tiny details like the name of a kid on a football.

Beautiful Kanji - 1200

Word breaks Interesting conversation from a linguist about no spaces between words in days of Greek and Latin.

Kanji club - all words related to a character. Makes for good visuals too.

Hiragana and corresponding katakana

shows radicals

These verbs can be used to make up sentences.

 

The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

Doug Hill - Not so fast - thinking twice about technology

The Republic of Technology

The Technological Republic by  Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska

Swedish Minister of energy

Do Artifacts have politics?

by design or consequence

Context, Perspective

 World map according to fish

 

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story

Author Pagin Kennedy wonders and invetigates how did this kit come into existence at all.

The author refers to technology as another form of law/ruler enabler as identified in Ethics of Invention book by the author Sheila Jasanoff . This is followed by a section of Robert Moses and his architectural decisions.  A side thought on Architectures of cloth (textile architectue, tent).

Natasha Alexenko advocated for ending the national backlog of rape-kit testing available around ~1982 by the efforts of Marty Goddard in Chicago.  

2024 - A Japanese filmmaker investigated her own sexual assault.

1793 - Sewing Girl's tale

 

AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence

Marvin Minsky dismissed neural networks. Even though Geoff Hinton was schooled in the institutions that believed the same, Hinton was not persuaded by Minsky's argument.

Excellence

 

Can we be equal and excellent too?

Elon Musk is an example of a person who has realized his individual promise.

Equality and Excellence

 Are jobs in India pulling people out of poverty? ft. Manish Sabharwal

Formalizing the economy

National Education Policy

NSQF

Recognition of Prior Learning

A book referred in the talk Excellence by John Gardner.

Optimistic people

 While listening to a segment on radio about optimistic people, I suddenly made a connection to hardworking people. Hardworking people have to be optimistic that their efforts will be fruitful.

Idioms

 I was able to explain this idiom  throwing a tantrum and a colleague recognised it.

A Japanese proverb

Some characters are easy to catch in this proverb list

Why read

 the ability to consume info, retain it, and then form a persuasive opinion + narrative around the info.

Sustenance

 Lily fields

amongst

rice fields

Models

 Rubik cube on a plane

Why systems fail

Articulation

When you get communication feedback, rewind and understand why others said that.

1. Have you answered the question?

2. To answer the question first? Or provide the punchline (If there is no time). Reasoning or walkthrough of your reasoning. Here are some book-summary of Sapiens by James Clear in italics.

• To describe how something happened means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another.
• To describe why something happened means to find causal connections that led to this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.
• Can you tell the difference between the two?

Summarise points when you are shifting to a different concept. This ensures that the person you are talking to is on the same page as you at certain intervals. Summarisation is also a way to move from the specifics to a broader general statements. Think going up the pyramid.

If you are any bit interested in trying to predict the future or history then remember this from the notes:

• The deeper your knowledge of a particular area of history, the harder it becomes to explain why one particular outcome occurred and not another.
• It is an inevitable rule of history that what seems obvious in hindsight is impossible to predict beforehand.

When you find yourself repeating sometimes, probably something is not making sense and you are still trying to piece that. Preface it with this.

Palantir

 Reflections on Palantir

Lessons from Peter Thiel