Lifelong learning is the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of learning throughout someone’s lifetime. Since I stumbled upon this notion, I’ve rigorously experimented it on myself, by learning how to learn and self-study a variety of topics
History of learning
What I learned, as requisites for independent study, or through following my curiosity
2025
2024
- December:
- 2024-12-06-Fri Vietnamese history
- 2024-12-05-Thu Euthanasia (assisted dying) is a debatable law in Canada. On one hand, the program (called MAID) allows approved patients (mostly incurable) to go through a medical process that assist their dying in a less suffering way. On the other hand, the government can arguably shirk providing necessary services (e.g. medical services, which are currently on the decline) to help these people. It’s confounding whether MAID participants choose it of their own will or because there are no other options to turn to to reduce their physical/mental suffering.
- 2024-12-03-Tue Monogamy is a social and legal construct that seemed to arise from family property rights in 1700s (the European feudalism era). Humans are adaptive to different romantic and sexual relationship structures (e.g. monogamy, polygamy, polygyny/polyandry, other types of non-monogamy)
- November:
- Interaction-centric AI
- What we see and what we value: AI with a human perspective by Fei-Fei Li
- Customized and published personal website with Quartz. I learned a bit more Typescript along the way.
- Digested US politic news upon Trump’s reelection
- October:
- Learned about the politics of homelessness in San Francisco and other US big cities.
- Learned about the paradigm of continual learning 🧠
- September:
- Following Crash Course of Religion and reading on this topic as an agnostic person, after watching Unorthodox in Berlin and heard my friend’s sharing about Protestantism and Christanity.
- June: Learning R with rustlings, Docker, shell, and SSH
- May: