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Personal Thoughts on Physical Limits, Complexity, City Planning, and Community

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    August 2nd, 2026

    For those new to this blog, here are some articles to help get you started. I picked them based on my rough sense of content that is more focused and of general interest. I divided them into three levels – Easy, Medium, and Hard – based on emotional and technical difficulties.

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    Easy

    These articles are relatively short, except for Practical Civics, Part 1. I included it here since it could be a helpful guide on civics that sets the baseline of understanding for many other articles.

    1. The Art and Culture of KPop Demon Hunters: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/11/01/the-art-and-culture-of-kpop-demon-hunters/
    2. “Farewell to My Guestroom” (Very Short Fiction): https://cityuntangled.com/2026/06/11/farewell-to-my-guestroom-very-short-fiction/
    3. All Information is Physical: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/11/24/all-information-is-physical/
    4. Practical Civics, Part 1 (There is no Part 2 for now): https://cityuntangled.com/2026/06/21/practical-civics-part-1/
    5. Political Tension 06: A Lonely Tribe of Heroes: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/10/26/political-tension-06-lonely-tribe-of-heroes/

    Medium

    These get more emotionally or technically difficult. If you have the time, energy, and interest, they might be of interest. Some of them are rather long at about 15 pages (Letter-sized).

    1. The Peak Complexity series, starting with Part 1 and ending at Part 5: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/01/01/peak-complexity-part-1/
    2. The Toward Better Multi-Family Homes series, starting with Part 1 and ending at Part 3: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/01/01/toward-better-multi-family-homes-part-1/
    3. The South Korean Self-Coup of 2024: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/10/19/the-south-korean-self-coup-of-2024/
    4. Feds Took Down Their Own Anti-Disinformation Video: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/03/30/feds-took-down-their-own-anti-disinformation-video/
    5. Physics Don’t Negotiate: https://cityuntangled.com/2025/01/01/physics-dont-negotiate/

    Hard

    All the articles and extra political writings listed here are long, some of them exceeding 20 pages. Also, their content can be tough to swallow, since I go into dark human nature and specific conduct of elected officials and their supporters. The PDFs downloadable from the Extra Politics page contain actual letters of complaint I wrote to the local government. The letters tend to be at least five pages and contain a lot of technical details.

    1. All remaining articles in the Political Tension series, especially Parts 1, 2, and 7: https://cityuntangled.com/category/politics/
    2. Going Almost Car-Free: https://cityuntangled.com/2026/03/08/going-almost-car-free/
    3. Toward a New American Identity: https://cityuntangled.com/2026/03/24/toward-a-new-american-identity/
    4. Dealing with Narcissism and Misinformation in Politics: https://cityuntangled.com/2026/08/01/dealing-with-narcissism-and-misinformation-in-politics/
    5. Writings in the Extra Politics Page (The ones for Northampton, MA dated 2025-02-20, 2025-04-22, 2025-10-01, and 2026-02-17 especially get intense): https://cityuntangled.com/politics/

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