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✒ Books read in 2023 #02 Proud to be an INTJ.

✒ Books read in 2023 #01 Rule#1: Work Deeply Rule #2: Embrace Boredem Rule #3: Quit Social Media Rule #4: Drain the Shallows Not sure to what extent I can stick with these rules, but the three tips regarding how (not) to respond to vague / ambiguous / unimportant emails are insightful: Tip #1: Make … Read More

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✒ Books read in 2022 #16 WHAT: WHY: HOW:

✒ Books read in 2022 #15 Lots of good reminders on how to orient oneself when facing challenges. The three primary disciplines are: (1) Perception: See things for what they are. (2) Action: Do what we can. (3) Will: Endure and bear what we must. It’s that simple, but it’s not that easy.

✒ Books read in 2022 #14 A good daily dip into the Stoic wisdom, if you are too busy to dive deep into the longer-reads like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Books read in 2022 #11 – #13 Re-read as part of the trio by Ray Dalio Re-read as part of the trio by Ray Dalio A very detailed book that contains brilliant analyses and reads like a textbook. One has to appreciate the effort for putting together such amount of research in supporting the analysis. … Read More

✒ Books read in 2022 #10 The first part of the book uses the analytical framework that was used to explain how Bitcoin network works and applying to the fiat system, which is brilliant. The second part of the book extends the concepts to other aspects of life (e.g. food, science, fuel) can be controversial … Read More

✒ Books read in 2022 #09 Re-reading it as preparation for Saifedean’s next book: The Fiat Standard. P.S.: When I read it for the first time, it was the version in which Nassim Taleb wrote the preface for the book, but since then Nassim Taleb reversed his stance on Bitcoin. The preface of the new … Read More

✒ Books read in 2022 #08 A good follow-up read as a continuation of the ESG topics after reading Mark Carney’s Value(s), which talks about how companies can embrace stakeholder capitalism (as opposed to shareholder primacy), putting values into action. It proposes a business model that puts people and planet first. Plenty of examples showing … Read More

✒ Books read in 2022 #07 It touches on various interesting topics that I find amusing so I wouldn’t mind the longer than expected read: Values represent the principles or standards of behaviour; they are judgements of what is important in life. Examples include integrity, fairness, kindness, excellence, sustainability, passion and reason. Value is the … Read More

✒ Books read in 2022 #02 to #06 Attend an online video course about data/information visualization, and the 5 brilliant books that come with it. Money and time well spent. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Envisioning Information Visual Explanations Beautiful Evidence Seeing with Fresh Eyes

✒ Books read in 2022 #01 A light and fun read to start the year. The book is a blend of fiction (by Chen Qiufan) and commentary (by Kai-Fu Lee). The fictional stories seamless thread together various relevant topics in AI which are entertaining and read like novel but also somewhat like HBR cases. Kai-Fu’s … Read More

✒ Books read in 2021: Mastering Bitcoin (re-read) How to Make the World Add Up Moonwalking with Einstein Range The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Fooled by Randomness (re-read) The Black Swan  (re-read) Antifragile (re-read) Skin in the Game Brave New World Brave New World Revisited Think Again Layered Money The Blocksize War Invent and Wander … Read More

✒ Books reads in 2021 #17 I may not agree with everything that Jeff Bezos did or said, but reading through the annual shareholder letters he wrote throughout the years does give me a feeling that his actions are consistent with his words. What a ride.

✒ Books read in 2021 #16 The content is probably a bit trivial if you already have some knowledge on this topic. However, it provides a good synthesis of various sources of information that explains the ideology of this technology and the rationale of why it matters, written in an easy to digest manner for … Read More

✒ Books read in 2021 #15 A blog-like quick read for readers who are already down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. It presents a vivid documentation of why this civil war started, how it progressed (with arguments of both sides presented in a balanced manner), and why the “Core” side eventually won. As Andreas Antonopoulos once … Read More

✒ Books read in 2021 #14 A well-researched and well-referenced book published two decades ago, yet managed to make quite a number of  prediction with alarming accuracy in this Information Age, such as the rise in nationalism (leading to Brexit and Trump), decentralised encrypted cybermoney (Bitcoin), income disparity, etc. My only complaint is that the … Read More

✒ Book read in 2021 #13 In a debt-based monetary system, “money” is created from the balance sheet whenever someone borrows, the IOUs (I-owe-you), or promises to repay, is a liability one somebody’s balance sheet within the double-entry accounting system. The author reframed the concept to represent this relationship in terms of layers. Except the … Read More

✒ Book read in 2021 #12 Key takeaways: On a personal level, starts with intellectual humility — knowing what we don’t know. Be actively open-minded by thinking like a scientist: doubt what you know, be curious about what you don’t know, and update your views based on new data. When circumstances change, we change. Changing … Read More