If a child cannot understand the scope and themes of, say, Montaigne's Essais, is this a fault of Montaigne's? The Pendulum is similarly loaded with concepts and ideas.
Essays. Some of the better substacks are worth collecting and publishing as books, like Montaigne's Essais. A newsletter is for events, essays are for ideas and reasoning. Substack is a good place for the latter.
…posts on various topics. Write multi kilo-word reviews of honest to goodness books with reference to the ideas therein. Really pour yourself into the work -- take as your inspiration Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Submit some of these. Watch them get, at most, a single upvote. 2. Write one (1) angry rant about a company well-known to HNers, with no goals other than to vent a bit. Add "sucks" to the title somewhere.…
有些沉甸甸的大部头是用笔手写出来的。想想《上帝之城》（The City of God），或者《九章集》（The Enneads），或者蒙田的《随笔集》（Essais）。要我说，它们反而因此而更出色。缓慢的书写介质意味着每一页都倾注了多得多的思考。正常人绝不会费劲巴拉花上好几个小时去手写一篇 buzzfeed……
Some fairly hefty books have been written with a pen. Consider something like The City of God, or The Enneads, or the Essais of Montaigne. If anything, I think they were better for it. A slow writing medium means a lot more thought went into each page. Nobody in their right mind would spend hours arduously writing a buzzfeed…
……里面有太多微小的故事和智慧碎片，深深启发了我对人性以及对自身工作的看法。- 贝克韦尔的《如何生活》（How To Live）：如果你没有时间或闲情去读蒙田的《随笔集》（Essais，我自己也还没读完），贝克韦尔这本书算是一本将蒙田的哲思与生平交织在一起的入门概览。- 马什的《无可避免的伤害》（Do No Harm）：这是一位“知名”神经外科医生的自传……
…There are so many minor stories and bits of wisdom that positively influenced my outlook on humanity and the work I do. - Bakewell's How To Live: If you don't have time or leisure to read Montaigne's Essais (I'm still not finished with those), Bakewell's book is a bit of a primer/summary of Montaigne's lessons interwoven with Montaigne's life. - Marsh's Do No Harm: it's the autobiography of a "famous" neuro-surgeon…
《随笔集》（Essais）- 米歇尔·德·蒙田 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
Essais - Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
如果一个孩子理解不了比如蒙田《随笔集》（Essais）的格局和主题，难道这是蒙田的错吗？《傅科摆》（The Pendulum）也同样充斥着海量的概念与思想。
If a child cannot understand the scope and themes of, say, Montaigne's Essais, is this a fault of Montaigne's? The Pendulum is similarly loaded with concepts and ideas.
随笔（Essays）。一些比较优质的 Substack 文章完全值得结集出版成书，就像蒙田的《随笔集》（Essais）那样。Newsletter 是用来关注事件的，而 essay 是用来探讨思想和论证的。Substack 是写后者的好地方。
Essays. Some of the better substacks are worth collecting and publishing as books, like Montaigne's Essais. A newsletter is for events, essays are for ideas and reasoning. Substack is a good place for the latter.
……关于各种话题的帖子。写几千字长篇大论认认真真评述好书，结合其中的思想。真情实感地倾注心血——以米歇尔·德·蒙田的《随笔集》（Essais）为灵感源泉。把这些发出去，然后眼睁睁看着它们最多拿到区区 1 个 upvote。2. 写一篇（就 1 篇）愤怒吐槽 HN 圈皆知的大公司的帖子，纯粹为了发泄。标题里随便哪个地方加个“烂透了”（sucks）……
…posts on various topics. Write multi kilo-word reviews of honest to goodness books with reference to the ideas therein. Really pour yourself into the work -- take as your inspiration Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Submit some of these. Watch them get, at most, a single upvote. 2. Write one (1) angry rant about a company well-known to HNers, with no goals other than to vent a bit. Add "sucks" to the title somewhere.…
有些沉甸甸的大部头是用笔手写出来的。想想《上帝之城》（The City of God），或者《九章集》（The Enneads），或者蒙田的《随笔集》（Essais）。要我说，它们反而因此而更出色。缓慢的书写介质意味着每一页都倾注了多得多的思考。正常人绝不会费劲巴拉花上好几个小时去手写一篇 buzzfeed……
Some fairly hefty books have been written with a pen. Consider something like The City of God, or The Enneads, or the Essais of Montaigne. If anything, I think they were better for it. A slow writing medium means a lot more thought went into each page. Nobody in their right mind would spend hours arduously writing a buzzfeed…
……里面有太多微小的故事和智慧碎片，深深启发了我对人性以及对自身工作的看法。- 贝克韦尔的《如何生活》（How To Live）：如果你没有时间或闲情去读蒙田的《随笔集》（Essais，我自己也还没读完），贝克韦尔这本书算是一本将蒙田的哲思与生平交织在一起的入门概览。- 马什的《无可避免的伤害》（Do No Harm）：这是一位“知名”神经外科医生的自传……
…There are so many minor stories and bits of wisdom that positively influenced my outlook on humanity and the work I do. - Bakewell's How To Live: If you don't have time or leisure to read Montaigne's Essais (I'm still not finished with those), Bakewell's book is a bit of a primer/summary of Montaigne's lessons interwoven with Montaigne's life. - Marsh's Do No Harm: it's the autobiography of a "famous" neuro-surgeon…