/// Blog
That day on a cliff, I understood Mark's wisdom
A brief reflection after a trip to Miyake Island
6 practices when I read
It often happens that the amount of books I read is misinterpreted as superb intelligence or supernatural speed reading. “I thought you are
Summer books - Let’s turn virus time into reading time!
The world is rolling through a bumpy slip road of a deadly pandemic and cruel abuse of power. This reality shouts loud and clear than ever
How do I select a book?
Calling up the last five books I read: a fairy-tale satire, a non-fiction Malcolm’s book, a science book on sleeping, a science book about h
Really, what is your Passion?
A reflection on So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport
Miracles: What I learned after 47 books - P1
【Part 1】 The sixth sense: The visual transformation
/// Values
"Business opportunities are like buses; there is always other one coming."
"The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease."
"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
"When I have no roof I made Audacity my roof."
"Do rewards motivate people? 'Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.'"
"We're designed to be active and engaged. And we know that the richest experiences in our lives aren't when we're clamouring for validation from others, but when we're listening to our own voice--doing something that matters, doing it well, and doing it in the service of a cause bigger than ourselves."
"... our capacity to understand and manipulate human genomes alters our conception of what it means to be human."
"The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing"
"Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy. Never make a decision when you are sad."
/// Books
The Law of Medicine
--reading now--
The Power of Less
Acknowledging limitations and learning to focus on one matter at a time does not make you earn less. While the quality of our daily tasks is diluted with the endless stream of information, LESS is more! As simple as...
Upheaval
--reading now--
Ebola
Rated 4/5, the book yet deserves 5/5 if you are like me, a first-time reader on the topic of Ebola. As Carlos Ruiz Zafon (the well-known novelist who wrote The Shadow of the Wind) famously expressed “Books are mirrors: you only see in them...
The Emperor of All Maladies
There is no doubt Siddhartha Mukherjee is a gifted storyteller who knows how to integrate history into a compelling chain of events. Like what he beautifully did in The Gene, The Emperor of All Maladies is skillfully...
The Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine a thought-provoking publication on a radical form of capitalism (neo-liberalism) nurtured by Milton Friedman as a significant economic ideology of the 19th century. The shock doctrine highlights a “doctrine”...