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，