Books

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Book Reviews

Book	Author	Finish
Decide	Steve McClatchy	20220829
The Choice	Edith Eva Eger	20230123
Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor E. Frankl	20230126
Yes to Life	Viktor E. Frankl	20230106
Building A Second Brain	Tiago Forte	20230924
The PARA Method	Tiago Forte	20230914
The Worlds I See	Feifei Li	20231125
At Your Best	Carey Nieuwhof	20230108
《李光耀回忆录 - 风雨独立路》	Lee Kuan Yew	20230803
《李光耀回忆录 - 经济腾飞路》	Lee Kuan Yew	20230829
Quit	Annie Duke	20230918
Lee Kuan Yew	Graham Allison	20240104
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star	Paul Theroux	20240127
The Art of Loving	Erich Fromm	20240216
《毛泽东的大饥荒》	Frank Dikötter	20240212
Beyond Possible	Nims Purja	20240225
Burn Book	Kara Swisher	20240323
Slow Productivity	Cal Newport	20240325
Finding George Orwell in Burma	Emma Larkin	20240421
The Old Patagonia Express	Paul Theroux	20240502
What We Talk About When We Talk About Running	Haruki Murakami	20240508
《我比世界晚熟》	胡安焉	20240606
Other Rivers	Peter Hessler	20240810

Book Recommendations

On China

The Shanghai Free Taxi by Frank Langfitt

China After Mao by Frank Dikötter

Censored by Margaret E. Roberts

Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang

Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman

Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen

Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter

Other Rivers by Peter Hessler

Party of One by Chun Han Wong

Prisoner of the State by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, Adi Ignatius

Red Roulette by Desmond Shum

Sparks by Ian Johnson

The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter

The Cultural Revolution: 1967 in Review by Michel Oksenberg

The Hakka Cookbook by Linda Lau Anusasananan

The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer

The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim

The Souls of China by Ian Johnson

The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home by Melissa Margaret Schneider

Tombstone by 杨继绳

Wild Grass by Ian Johnson

《天地翻覆》 by 杨继绳

On South East Asia

Blood and Silk by Michael Vatikiotis

Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell

Lee Kuan Yew by Graham Allison

The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew

Software Development

Python

Effective Python: Each section talks about a tip to improve Python efficiency.

Fluent Python: It not only introduces how to improve Python coding, but also tells why.

Software Engineer Career

Soft Skills: It talks about all skills a software engineer needs apart from coding skills.

The Effective Engineer: It talks about how to improve the working efficiency as a software engineer.

The Manager's Path: It talks how to manage and how to be managed from intern to CTO.

Building a Career in Software: It talks about how to grow as a software engineer step by step.

System Design

System Design Interview: Each case in this book introduces a software system, from message queue to CDN.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: It provides a step-by-step guide to build data-intensive systems.

Designing Machine Learning Systems: It provides a step-by-step guide to build machine learning systems from training to serveing.

Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10: If you want to learn how to explain a complicated concept to a stanger, this is the best text book.

Software Engineering at Google: It not only introduces what are the best practise in Google, but also elaborates how Google built these best practises.

Misc
Build
Ask Your Developer
The Innovation Stack
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Never Lost Again
Powerful
The Everything Store
Hit Refresh
Delivering Happiness