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Dr Alex — lived-theory writing

Three rules of authorship. Or method. Whatever: 1. I start from a wound or question, then build a structure that forces me to learn reality. 2. My questions are personal; I make them pass through the world. 3. The work begins as private necessity, becomes public inquiry, and seeks a durable form.

#Top3 today, Hong Kong rainy summer Sunday edition: 1. #DigitalDetox pre-submission paper polishing 2. 90-minute admin and logistics block around next two months in Australia and Europe 3. evening/night walk to the Peak and HKU

The romance of overwork. Some societies (and people) romanticize work to death. Academia often does the same. The language is usually beautiful: duty, values, excellence, vocation, impact. The hidden layer is less beautiful: emotional dependency and exploitation.

Apparently, when I treat people like I want to be treated, they get long messages, unsolicited conceptual frameworks, and 3–5 follow-up questions. There seems to be something wrong with Kantian ethics ahah.

Independent research needs architecture, or it dissolves into noise. Unfortunately, architecture also needs maintenance, which is how one becomes the unpaid facilities manager of one’s own freedom. #ResearchSystems #AcademicWriting

Call this overgeneralization, but the greatest danger in humanity is not malice. The greatest danger is unconsciousness. Most other problems are essentially derivatives. Wars, AI, politics, whatever—people stop seeing what they are actually doing.

I value mastery and competence extremely highly. But the best professionals I have met were rarely addicted to work or trapped in moralized duty. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Authorship compounds. At first, you think you are just posting notes. Then you realize you are building an archive of sentences, concepts, fieldnotes, and future papers. The feed becomes a writing system.