About

⊕ Still Life and Street. M.C. Escher, 1937. Escher in Het Paleis, The Hague. Woodcut 48.7 x 49 cm. This site was conceived as a collation of personal curiosities and a digital commonplace resource for exploring ideas that demand rigorous and honest contemplation and a slower pace. Its content is best understood as a modest accumulation of somewhat organised thoughts and provisional understandings by the author.

Who is Simji? #

I am of Korean descent. Simji (審遲/심지) is my pen name (호) which combines

• 審: meticulous examination/refusal to judge superficially; and
• 遲: deliberate slowness/unhurried pace/letting things mature.

In Korean, this is a homophone of “candle wick” (Lk 8.16).

Readership #

The primary intended reader of this site is myself. As such, I write exclusively about subjects that are of interest to me.

Iterative Improvement #

Articles are living documents; they are never truly “final”. Each entry functions as a log of thoughts, and commit dates are marked against each article.

Language and Accessibility #

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Acknowledgments #

This site is generated using Hugo and is inspired by the Tufte philosophy of clarity and economy. Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001).

License #

All the contents of this site are available under CC BY-SA 4.0.