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Douban link This is a collection of articles from Liu Shen Lei Lei’s WeChat public account of the same name, organized by different Jin Yong novels. Reading it all at once felt very satisfying. I clapped my hands in delight many times. Because these were originally WeChat public-account articles,

Douban link Do not be deceived by the title. Do not judge it literally and think this is a success book, where after reading it you can learn to be thick-faced and black-hearted and become a hero. It is not. This book is mainly a satire of history and social reality. Hou Hei Xue was written in the

Douban link for this book XiaoLin is one of my favorite uploaders. Beautiful, top student, Wall Street investment banking, startup founder. All kinds of eye-catching labels. And her videos are genuinely high quality: well produced, while still easy to understand. I read her book partly to support h

Douban link After watching The Knockout, I also came to read The Art of War. I could not understand the original, so I came to an interpretation. I also watched Lao Gao’s videos, and they are indeed impressive. Gao Qiqiang used one copy of The Art of War to settle Jinghai City, growing from a small

Recently Netflix’s version of The Three-Body Problem has become popular, surrounded by both praise and criticism. I have not watched it, so I cannot really comment. But it did bring back my own memories with The Three-Body Problem. As for the novels, I read them about ten years ago in the Shahe lib

Douban link A very good investing book, somewhat similar to The Psychology of Money. It uses a lot of data and backtesting to convince readers. The points I benefited from most: Buy whenever you have money. Do not wait. Market timing is useless. Do not buy individual stocks. Buy the broad market

Douban link Giving up the English edition and switching to the translated edition was indeed the right choice. 380,000 Chinese characters, finished in one week. So satisfying. Especially the section about the first decade after 2000, covering the early days of SpaceX and Tesla, was truly inspiring:

Douban link Another book that was delightful and hard to put down. Besides the familiar story from Greek philosophy to classical physics, and then to modern physics, including relativity and quantum physics, the book mainly focuses on cutting-edge “loop quantum gravity”: a theory that tries to unif

Douban link A classic book on computer programming and software. It was written in 1986, which can be considered the medieval period of computing, the beginning of the PC era. Therefore, many examples in the book may feel unfamiliar and hard to understand for “modern” programmers, such as its empha

Douban link The best book I read this year, the one that resonated with me most and inspired the most thinking. Strongly recommended. I have many thoughts and feelings I want to share, but it is hard to judge the boundary. So bold, so brave. It summarizes economic reforms from ancient times to toda