Networked Thought
Stian Håklev · Hamar
I tell people I'm currently giving myself the high school education I never got.
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A map for one readerSicily in June with a guide that exists in no app store — and the Norman king, the Arab geographer and the Athenian actor who kept turning up in it2026-08-25 ↗
This is the Babel fish we've been waiting forHow AI lets us find, follow and join conversations in languages we don’t speak2026-08-21 ↗
Petrarca: An Intelligent Companion for the Self-Taught ReaderA mobile app that tracks what you know across books, podcasts, and voice recordings — and keeps it alive through contextual resurfacing2026-04-07 ↗Alif: Technical Deep DiveA single-user Arabic learning system built with spaced repetition, Arabic NLP, and LLMs2026-03-31 ↗
How an Iraqi Play About Cain and Abel Led Me to Build My Own DuolingoTesting twenty years of ideas about language learning, finally building the ultimate app for myself2026-03-31 ↗
How I Keep Accidentally Building ToolsOn the shortening distance between "I wish this existed" and "I guess I'll build it"2026-03-24 ↗
The language learning holy grailComprehensible Input in a bottle2025-02-24 ↗
Learning effectively with podcastsIntegrating ListenNotes, Otter.ai, Roam, and walks around lakes2020-04-06 ↗
Reusable media fact checking?Fact checks, metadata, Wikidata, Kialo, Coronavirus...2020-02-28 ↗Her på nettstedet
The high school education I never gotI say this as a 43 year old, who have always read widely and been precocious, but is finally now beginning to backfill my cultural knowledge - Greek and Roman history, Chaucer, the Islamic conquests, the Renaissance... So much I've read and barely understood because of this lack.
A map for one readerSicily in June with a guide that exists in no app store — and the Norman king, the Arab geographer and the Athenian actor who kept turning up in it
The anchor strategyCrete, the fog-of-war map, Charlemagne as an anchor, why hooks need a skeleton, and reading by the fireplace. Excerpts about method from a 2026 essay.
Reading Plato where it happenedThirty days in Athens in the summer of 2025: an 1872 Plato from an auction, a bookbinder, Elektra and Oedipus in Epidaurus, and the dialogues read on the spots where they are set.
How to read a playFrom «I find it very hard to read and enjoy a play» in April 2024 to twenty plays a year later, and the one piece of advice that helped: be patient, keep reading, it comes together.
100% inputAthenaze, a Latin reading circle, and why the dead languages have better textbooks than the living ones.