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Martin's articles

Here is a list of articles I have written, ordered by date of writing. All of these are bound to be wrong in various ways, but the point is to catalogue ideas as they arise. Traced through time, this page will manifest a learning process over the months to come.

2026-02-08

Real numbers are countable

2025-11-14

中文 (Chinese language/culture) - 事实胜于雄辩

2024-01-25

Plutarch's Parallel Lives - Alexander the Great - early years: heroic destiny, superiority, true honour, temperance, art and war, learning and war, hidden philosophy, value of historical works

2023-11-30

The stigma of power, and making evil agreeable: framing, individualism

2023-11-01

A counter-argument to Russell's paradox and the antinomy: substance, ambiguity, infinity, intuition

2023-10-12

Explorations of mathematical logic: proof as computer program, mathematical system as graph, contradiction and contrapositive

2023-10-12

Thoughts on "slow and steady wins the race": intelligence, hard work, wastefulness, what to focus on

2023-09-25

Thoughts on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Book 1: nature, virtue, utilitarianism, rationality, virtue in society

2023-09-06

Leonardo da Vinci, parrots, geniuses, nature

2023-07-23

Thoughts on kung fu, yin and yang, stability and circularity, passion