Rika Hayashi

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Hi, I'm Rika!

I'm what someone once called an “intellectual omnivore.” Outside of university, I spend much of my free time writing about history, science, anthropology, politics, music, and whatever else catches my curiosity.

2022 — 2026

Shanghai High School International Division

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Law After Certainty

Law · 28 Apr 2026

A reflection on judgment, ambiguity, and the quiet human assumptions held inside legal systems.

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A patient argument that freedom is not a condition we possess, but a practice we renew. Le Guin makes the border between utopia and compromise feel permeable.
★★★★½   ·   Inspired “Law After Certainty”
Beauty as a form of attention: incomplete, perishable, and deeply hospitable. A book that leaves more room around each object it touches.
★★★★★   ·   Notes on ritual and impermanence
A vocabulary for reciprocity. The essays ask what changes when gratitude is understood not as sentiment, but as an obligation to the living world.
★★★★½   ·   Related: “Rituals for an Ordinary Tuesday”
Faith under pressure, and the terrible distance between an ideal and a human life. I returned often to what remains when certainty has been stripped away.
★★★★★   ·   Favorite passage saved in private notes