{"id":540,"date":"2026-09-21T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/?p=540"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:10:52","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%93-project-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/blog\/%f0%9f%8e%93-project-update\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf93 Project Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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With AI assistance, I’ve been developing several interconnected educational projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Indian Philosophy Series \u2014 Nearly complete! Covering the full spectrum from ancient Rishis through medieval thinkers to the Buddha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Iliad Commentary \u2014 Now at Book XI, with accompanying audiobook versions for each book (Books 1-X available). These draw on major scholarly commentaries including Hainsworth, Kirk, and The Cambridge Companion to Homer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Pre-Socratic Philosophy \u2014 Just launching! Starting with fragmentary thinkers like Heraclitus and Parmenides, with plans to extend to Plato, Aristotle, and beyond.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Literature & Poetry \u2014 Coming soon: similar RAG-supported commentaries on major literary works.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Each lecture and commentary is backed by rigorous research from academic sources. The goal: provide free, accessible academic-level analysis of philosophy and literature to anyone interested. All works will be translated into multiple languages and housed in my open library at http:\/\/library.leshley.ca <\/a>and to follow the lectures and\/or audiobook https:\/\/tube.leshley.ca\/<\/a>. I will update this blog soon with all of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is essentially an AI-enabled, tuition-free “university” experience \u2014 no paywalls, no gatekeepers, just human thought made accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    With AI assistance, I’ve been developing several interconnected educational projects: Each lecture and commentary is backed by rigorous research from academic sources. The goal: provide free, accessible academic-level analysis of philosophy and literature to anyone interested. All works will be translated into multiple languages and housed in my open library at http:\/\/library.leshley.ca and to follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshley.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}