Imagine hearing from your doctor that you only have 10 years, or even shorter, to live. Would you do anything differently? Actually, on the day we were born, death is already a certainty.

Recently, I spent two weeks in the beautiful West Coast of Canada. It provided me with some spaces and time, to think and read. I read two books written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

2%. That’s the percentage of people who take the stairs when an escalator is also available.  I am sure there is evolutionary reasons behind that. After all, when you have to hunt

I recently watched a tv series, which was so-so, but had an interesting idea. A young, ambitious staff at a pharmaceutical company made a deal with the god of death. He would have

鬼地方 - 陳思宏 「永靖對我來說，是個鬼地方， 我一輩子都想逃離。 陳家空廢，連篇鬼話。 我們終究都活不出永靖這個小地方。 陳天宏，出身彰化永靖，一個沒什麼人聽過的小地方。 他是家中么子，爸媽連生了五個沒用的女兒，最後兩胎才拚到男丁。 這么子逃到德國柏林，一心與家鄉割裂，卻意外殺了同志伴侶。 出獄之後，無處可去，只得返回永靖。 故事從島嶼小地方的一天說起， 爸媽大姊二姊三姊四姊五姊哥哥，還有陳天宏，陳家成員輪番登場， 視角切換，光怪陸離的崩壞眾生相逐遭披露， 層層窺見家族的傷痕與醜陋、小鎮的祕密、時代的恐怖與無情。 回到鬼地方的人怎麼面對難堪的過往？ 一個小地方又怎麼會變成了鬼地方？」 有一陣子沒看的中文原文小說，