Essays Feature Design

Goal: Add a dedicated public writing space for essays about AI, power markets, entrepreneurship, and life, while keeping the site primarily a founder-and-researcher profile rather than turning it into a generic blog.

Product Direction

• Add a top-level Essays navigation entry.
• Create a dedicated /essays/ index page.
• Create individual essay pages under a Jekyll collection rather than _posts.
• Surface recent featured essays on the homepage before Recent News.
• Keep News for objective milestones and Essays for views, judgment, reflection, and personal writing.

Content Model

Each essay should carry:

• Chinese title
• English subtitle or short English summary
• Date
• Tags such as AI, Power Markets, Life
• Chinese main body
• English abstract
• Optional featured: true for homepage surfacing

UX Rules

• Essays are Chinese-first, with an English subtitle and English abstract.
• The site-wide language toggle still controls surrounding interface text, but essays remain Chinese-main by design.
• The essays index should look like a curated ideas page rather than a chronological blog archive.
• The homepage should only surface the latest featured essays, not every essay.

Scope

This round includes:

• Essays navigation item
• _essays/ collection
• /essays/ index page
• Single-essay layout
• Homepage Selected Essays section
• One seed essay based on the approved sample text

This round does not include:

• Comments
• Search
• Tag landing pages
• Pagination
• Dedicated cover-image system