Books & Podcast
Books and podcast episodes that made an impression.
Books
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“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
What I learned
Feedback loops and stability. When planning, we should build feedback loops instead of trying to accomplish everything in one strike.
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
What I learned
Flow is when you have a list of things in your mind and you attack them one by one.
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
What I learned
Know-how from the healthcare and aviation industries.
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
What I learned
Reasoning backwards and statistical thinking.
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
What I learned
Directional microphone array, resonant frequency for the brain, best natural acoustic spaces.
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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置身事内：中国政府与经济发展
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The Three-Body Problem
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Snow Crash
What I learned
The intellectual virus sounds familiar and ahead of its time.
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The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain
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China Airborne: The Test of China's Future
What I learned
It is interesting that he sees the aviation industry as the best gauge of service industry development.
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation