Philosophy++

" I’ve learned the importance of being patient enough to let meaning reach me when I’m ready for it, allowing an insight to land slowly and settle in my mind. Rereading hooks has helped me to revel in ideas without necessarily articulating them to anyone but myself, lest I interrupt the process of recognition by blabbing what I think I know too soon. As the old folks say, some things can remain private, and these reading experiences that overwrite each other and take years to develop are among the most pleasurable."

An interesting frame of Chinese/American international political science. One interesting model is that of "shared sovereignty, partial sovereignty, and compromised sovereignty"

"Poetry is the other way of using language."

the last sentences: " I want to build my skills for patience to stay longer than that in the transitional spaces, to not be overwhelmed while I pay attention to what’s cracking irritatingly and inconveniently, to what’s opening, what’s confusing, and what’s flourishing in the transitioning cracks. (The history of the present-in-transition.)"

This Wikipedia page seems accessible to non-mathematicians. But some idea about set theory is required.