Code, documentary,
and writing
by Orion Chen.

The same school text. In middle school it reads as a pastoral ideal. In high school it reads as political allegory. After enough classical zhiguai tales, you realize it was always a ghost story. The three readings aren't mutually exclusive — they're sixteen hundred years of sediment, layered on one at a time.

Board games aren't an old-fashioned hobby. The real rise happened after 1995. The way they rose runs against everything this era pushes — slow, in person, faces required, full evenings required, real strategy and thinking required. They don't cure boredom. They cure loneliness and attention collapse.

The Soviet Union fell, Eastern Europe collapsed, Cambodia became a punchline — but every failed communist experiment happened in the material domain, never once in the cognitive domain. As it happens, in the 21st century there's a community with no political label that quietly built the "association of free individuals" the Communist Manifesto described — using nothing but cognitive labor. It's called GitHub.

Not for people rushing a report. This is for creators who want to make a "portfolio-grade" deck — PMs, popular-science writers, indie designers, anyone wanting a personal portfolio page. I'll walk through how a single-file HTML PPT actually comes together, and why 90% of AI's straight-shot outputs look ugly.

Not melodrama. Data. From Hartmut Rosa's social acceleration, to Byung-Chul Han's achievement subject, to the 35-year-old cliff, to short-form video physically rewiring the brain — what this generation is carrying is an engineered, optimized age of addiction.