Bookshelf

log of trainings & books and my ratings

training-2026

• SKILLS

  • Entrepreneurial Leadership Toolbox (9/10)
  • ~~The Entrepreneurial Mindset~~
  • Financial Accounting Made Fun

  • Operations

  • wiki on Startup

reading-2026

• [How to Live an Extraordinary Life] by Anthony Pompliano (8/10)
• [When Love Meets Fear: Becoming Defense-less and Resource-full] by David Richo (8/10)
• [The psy of leadership] by Sébastien Page (8/10)
• [Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance] by Osho (7/10 note: ethical codes are useful for society, but not useful for individual)
• [Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most] by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen (8/10)
• [Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder] by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (8/10)
• 財富自由心理學 by 蔡宇哲, 郝旭烈 (8/10)
• 做一個情緒自由的人 by 盧文建, 彭振桓 (6/10)
• 成為自由人 by 李惠貞 （9/10）
• [活出你的本來面目] (8/10)
• [The Psychology of Money] by Morgan Housel (9/10)
• [The four agreements - a Practical Guide to Personal Freedom] by Don Miguel Ruiz
• [Mastery] by Robert Greene
• [Don't Sweat the small stuff about money]
• [Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It]
• [Don't Sweat the small stuff about love]
• [HBR Guide to Bying a Small Business]
• [讓愛自己變成好習慣]

• [戀愛使用說明書]

• [Dealing with Difficult People]

• [HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions]
• [Purpose & Profit] by Dan Koe
• [沈思錄]
• [善用悲觀的力量]
• [拆掉思維裡的牆] by 古典

• [Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life] by Burnett, Bill/ Evans, Dave

• [丘吉尔传] by Andrew Roberts

• [猫鱼] by 陈冲
• [張忠謀自傳]

• Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti

• [Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear] by Osho

• [The Magic] by Rhonda Byrne
• [Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products] by Marty Cagan
• [No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention] by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

• [HBRs 10 Must Reads on Communication]

• [Trump: The Art of the Deal]

• [Think and Grow Rich]
• [10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less]
• [The Laws of Human Nature] by Robert Greene
• [12 Rules for Life_ An Antidote to Chaos] by Jordan B. Peterson
• [The Surrender Experiment] by Michael A. Singer
• [Don't sweat the small stuff in love]
• [EMOTIONS: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear] by Osho

• [The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living] by Ryan Holiday

• Zero to One by Paul Graham

• [The Diary of a CEO] by Steven Bartlett (9/10)

• [The Almanack of Naval Ravikant] by Eric Jorgenson

• [To Have or to Be_The Nature of the Psyche] by Erich Fromm

• [Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose] by James D. White, Krista White
• Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar
• [與神對話]

reading-2025

• [馬斯克傳] (7/10)
• The Making of a Manager (10/10)
• HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (9/10)
• [蔡瀾谈爱情] by 蔡瀾 (9/10)
• [HBR on Emotional intelligence] (8/10)
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer (9/10)
• 薩提爾的自我覺察練習 (8/10)
• [力量从哪里来] by liyiluo (10/10)
• [相信自己，才是完整的你] by 高瑞希 (10/10)
• [The art of love] by Erich Fromm (note: awareness of his separateness => anxiety (shame, guilty) => the union with group => Love -> interpersonal union) (10/10)
• [Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament] by Michael A. Singer (8/10)
• [How to Live an Extraordinary Life] by Anthony Pompliano
• [12 Rules for Life_ An Antidote to Chaos] by Jordan B. Peterson
• [善用悲觀的力量]
• [The psy of leadership] by Sébastien Page
• [The Surrender Experiment] by Michael A. Singer

• [The Laws of Human Nature] by Robert Greene

• Zero to One by Paul Graham

• [The Diary of a CEO] by Steven Bartlett (10/10)
• [The Almanack of Naval Ravikant] by Eric Jorgenson (10/10)
• [沈思錄]
• [張忠謀自傳]

• [丘吉尔传] by Andrew Roberts

• [The four agreements-a Practical Guide to Personal Freedom] by Don Miguel Ruiz

• [Maturity-The responsibility of being oneself]
• [To Have or to Be_The Nature of the Psyche] by Erich Fromm
• [Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose] by James D. White, Krista White
• Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar

• [人性的弱點]

• [The Pragmatic Programmer_Your Journey To Mastery_20th]

• [The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness]
• [Grow rich with peace of mind] by Napoleon Hill

• [King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine] by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette (6/10)

• [How to Not Die Alone] by Logan Ury

• [CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It] by Ethan Kross

• [Don't Sweat the Small Stuff About Money: Simple Ways to Create Abundance and Have Fun] by Richard Carlson (9/10)

• [HBR being a Great Bs] (10/10) (note: kind of self-assurance)

• The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia
• [HBR Guide to Negotiating]

• [HBR Guide to Bying a Small Business]

• [Trump: How to Get Rich]

• Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin

• [How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships] by Leil Lowndes

• [The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck] by Mark Manson

• [Everything Is F*cked] by Mark Manson
• [Suddenly in Charge] by Roberta Chinsky Matuson

• [笑得出来的养育] by liyiluo

• [同理心對話] (8/10)

• [Don't sweat the small stuff in love]

• [Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff] by Richard Carlson

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Love, Freedom, and Aloneness:THE KOAN OF RELATIONSHIPS by Osho

• The Maxwell Daily Reader by John C. Maxwell

• [Adventures of the soul] by James Van Praagh
• Software Design by Example
• 亲密关系 by Rowland S. Miller (7/10)
• [Benjamin Franklin——An American Life]
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
• [Getting Acquired: How I Built and Sold My SaaS Startup]

• [HBR on Self-Awareness]

• Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti

• [Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In]
• The Art of the Deal
• 張愛玲經典散文

reading-2024

• 世界简史 by Geoffrey Blainey (9/10) (note: One needs to understand world history, especially if one stands at a worldview centered)
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley (8/10)
• [HBR being a Great Bs] (10/10) (note: kind of self assurance)
• Emotional Intelligence
• [!Permission to Feel Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive] (9/10)
• [Man from mars women from venus] (8/10)
• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
• [The Almanack of Naval Ravikant] by Eric Jorgenson
• [!Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In]
• [HBR on Managing Yourself]
• 薩提爾的自我覺察練習
• [The Art of the Deal]
• [Hands-On Large Language Models_ Language Understanding]
• The Untethered Soul: THE JOURNEY BEYOND YOURSELF by Michael A. Singer
• The Productive Programmer by Neal Ford
• The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
• 猫鱼 by 陈冲
• HBR Guide to Negotiating
• [HBR Guide to Bying a Small Business]

• Software Design by Example

• Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin

• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
• The Making of a Manager (10/10)
• Zero to One by Paul Graham
• [事實與偏見] by Lai Chee-ying
• The Art of the Deal
• Business Made Simple (8/10)

• [蛤蟆先生去看心理医生] (6/10)

• The Art of Agile Development by James Shore

• Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks Jr.
• 家人使用說明書 by 黑川伊保子 (7/10)
• Benjamin Franklin——An American Life
• Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• 飞鸟和池鱼 by 张惠雯

reading-2023

• [事实与偏见] by Lai Chee-ying (8/10)

• The Untethered Soul: THE JOURNEY BEYOND YOURSELF by Michael A. Singer

• 富爸爸穷爸爸 (8/10)

• 亲密关系 by Rowland S. Miller (9/10)

• Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson

• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Zero to One by Paul Graham

• The Art of the Deal

• Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

• The Road to Serfdom

• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

• Code Complete - A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout

• How to Design Programs, 2nd

• Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling

• A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

• 500 Lines or Less

• The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm (9/10)

• Meditations
• Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne W. Dyer
• HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
• Code by Charles Petzold
• 飞鸟和池鱼 by 张惠雯
• The Common Path to Uncommon Success by John Lee Dumas
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together by Guy Finley
• Emotional Intimacy by Masters, Robert Augustus

training-2022

• 軟件工程之美
• Better Writing in English
• American English Pronunciation
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress

reading-2022

• 張醫生於王醫生 （7/10）

• 馬丁·伊登 by Jack London (7/10)

• Bruce Lee: Artist of Life by Bruce Lee Jun-fan (9/10)

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck by Mark Manson (8/10)
• 力量从那里来 by 李一诺 (9/10)

• 少年王晶闖江湖 (note: 有些思維可以借鑑) (8/10)

• Fluent Python, 2nd by Luciano Ramalho (9/10)

• How to Design Programs, 2nd by Matthias Felleisen (7/10)
• Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python by Anthony J. Dos Reis (7/10)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford (7/10)
• The Art of Clean Code by Christian Mayer (8/10)

• Serious Python by Julien Danjou (8/10)

• Hello, Startup by Yevgeniy Brikman (9/10)

• Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett (8/10)
• Be The One by Eileen Lamb (6/10)
• Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina (9/10)
• Practices of the Python Pro by Dane Hillard (7/10)
• Python Distilled by David M. Beazley (9/10)
• Effective Python: 2nd Edition by Brett Slatkin (8/10)
• Love and Work by Marcus Buckingham (9/10)
• Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
• A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

• Meditations

• Zero to One by Paul Graham

• Code by Charles Petzold
• 張愛玲經典散文
• The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
• Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together by Guy Finley
• How to Solve It by G. Polya

• A Guide to the Good Life:The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley / William D. Danko

• 紅玫瑰与白玫瑰 by 張愛玲

• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

• From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul

• CPython Internals by Anthony Shaw

• 500 Lines or Less

• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore

• Think Bayes, 2nd by Allen Downey

• Producing Open Source Software

• The Art of Agile Development by James Shore

• Emotional Intimacy by Masters, Robert Augustus

• Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before by Dr. Julie Smith

• Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti

• Shape Up by Ryan Singer

• Inspired by Marty Cagan
• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
• 重读 20 世纪中国小说 by 许子东
• Programming Rust, 2nd Edition by Jim Bland

• why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby

• SKILLS

  • Startup School

  • Couples Counselling

  • Persuasive Communication

  • Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking

  • CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  • Great Ideas in Computer Architecture

  • Creative and Practical Thinking Skills (8/10)

training-2021

• Professional development: Improve yourself, always

• 認知訓練營 2020

• Learning How to Learn by McMaster University & University of California San Diego
• 编译原理之美

reading-2021

• Rework by Jason Fried (7/10)
• Getting Real by 37 Signals (8/10)
• [The Rule of Life] by Richard Templar (8/10)
• [Conversation Casanova] (8/10)
• [The Rule of Work] by Richard Templar (7/10)
• [The Rule of love] by Richard Templar (7/10)

• [The Rule of Management] by Richard Templar

• Thrivers by Michele Borba Ed D. (7/10)

• How to Live by Derek Sivers (9/10) (note: answer one of my confusions)
• I Love You But by Andrew G. Marshall (8/10)

• Getting Love Right by Terence T. Gorski (9/10) (note: one of the best on the relationship)

• Mastery by George Leonard (9/10)

• Friend & Foe by Adam Galinsky, Maurice Schweitzer (9/10)
• Bruce Lee: Artist of Life by Bruce Lee Jun-fan
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel

• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston

• 第一爐香 by 張愛玲

• The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler

• How to Design Programs, 2nd by Matthias Felleisen (9/10)
• The Art of Unix Programming
• Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec
• The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen (8/10)
• Fluent Python, 2nd by Luciano Ramalho

• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

• 500 Lines or Less

• Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua

• The Element Of Style by Wililam Strunk Jr.

• A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

• 流言 by 張愛玲

• The Cashflow Quadrant by C. P. A. Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter

• 無窮的開始 by 戴维·多伊奇

training-2020

• [Advanced Programming] with David Beazley
• High Performance Collaboration by Northwestern University
• Cracking the Creativity Code: Discovering Ideas by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• [影響力 x 心理學課程 Influence: The Psychology of Making Things Happen] by Treeholehk

reading-2020

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (9/10) (note: the skill is important)

• Mastery by George Leonard (9/10) (note: sharing on the psychological journey towards the master)

• Atomic Habits by James Clear (8/10) (note: Habits are the Compound interest of self-improvement)
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J Stanley (9/10)
• Think and grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (9/10) (note: about how to make Desire into reality)

• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter (9/10) (note: about how money works, and how to have it work for you)

• The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (8/10)

• The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer (8/10)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (9/10) (note: Hamlet and Don Quixote are so different but as the same great)
• The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama (9/10) (note: a comparative politics framework from the western perspective)
• Composing Programs (8/10)
• A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton (9/10) (note: a superb guide on philosophical writing)

• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (9/10)

• 富蘭克林自傳 by Benjamin Franklin (9/10)

• An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, et al. (8/10)
• SICP
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell (7/10)
• 被討厭的勇氣 by 岸見一郎, 古賀史健 (note: reshape some of my thinking) (9/10)
• 來自民間的叛逆 by 袁越 (8/10)
• The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo (8/10)
• Crafting Your Research Future by Charles X. Ling (8/10)
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (9/10)
• The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary (note: some pragmatic sharing working experience) (9/10)
• Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect by Michael Keeling (7/10)

• The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker (note: some superb pragmatic working skills) (9/10)

• 向上管理．向下管理 (7/10) (note: some softskills in the workplace and life )

• Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History by Fred S. Kleiner
• Dubliners by James Joyce