Hobbies / Books

Books I have read. It's missing many.

2025

09

  1. 2ChinaTravel

    Age of Ambition

  2. 2ChinaTravel

    Oracle Bones

    Not as good as River Town because it felt more like a collection of random events rather than having one clear storyline. The stories were mostly good and interesting but could have been more about regular life in there rather than some political events.

  3. 2Fiction

    Death’s End

  4. 1Textbook

    Hacking

    The material felt outdated and not relevant at least for my needs.

  5. 3Business

    The Fund

    The author told the real story of Ray Dalio and Bridgewater, his hedge fund. He had interviewed a lot of former and current employees at the company which gave more realistic picture of Ray’s management style which weren’t always as he tried to make it seem. The book was eye opening for me because I didn’t realize how much this kind of funds can make profit and how much they afforded to waste to pointless projects/employees. I was also amazed by how the results weren’t even that unrealistic but apparently they used simple investments models and the main reason why they made so much money were because Ray were able to convince a lot of institutional investors to invest to the fund.

  6. 3Business

    Option Volatility & Pricing

  7. Dark Forest

  8. Three Body Problem

  9. 3Cyber Security

    Pegasus

    Story about how reporters got access to a list of targets to the Pegasus spyware. The content wasn’t very technical and more from reporters’ point of view.

2024

12

  1. 4JapanArt

    Lost Japan

    Author’s story how he moved to Japan (Kyoto) and as an art collector talks about Japanese art and culture.

  2. 3ChinaTravel

    China Road

  3. 3ChinaBusiness

    CEO, China

  4. 3True StoryCrime

    Killing Pablo

  5. ChinaTravel

    Lost on Planet China

  6. 3True Story

    Black Hawk Down

  7. 4ChinaTravel

    River Town

  8. 3

    Beijing Rules

  9. 4JapanBiography

    Tokyo Vice

  10. 5FictionChina

    Death’s End

  11. 5FictionChina

    Dark Forest

  12. 5FictionChina

    3 Body Problem

2023

07

  1. Secrets of Sand Hill Road

  2. Fiction

    Life of Pi

  3. Biography

    Shoe Dog

  4. BiographyEngineering

    Skunk Works

  5. Fiction

    The Templars

  6. Fiction

    Deception Point

  7. 0Fiction

    Altar of Eden

2022

16

  1. Shenzhen Superstars

  2. Being You

  3. Console Wars

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    An Elegant Puzzle

  5. Productivity

    Make Time

  6. Productivity

    Show your work!

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    Traction

  8. Productivity

    Deep Work

  9. Poker

    Every Hand Revealed

  10. Poker

    Play Optimal Poker

  11. Fiction

    Da Vinci Code

  12. Fiction

    Angels & Demons

  13. Fiction

    The Lost Symbol

  14. Fiction

    Inferno

  15. Fiction

    Origin

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    Fiction

    Full Circle

2021

30

  1. The art of doing science and engineering

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    Handbook for Finnish start-ups for entering Chinese markets

  3. AI Superpowers

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    5

    A Brief History of Time

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    China’s Mobile Economy

  6. Lean Startup

  7. 5

    A Brief History of Time

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    Competitive Coding Handbook

  9. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

  10. Ethereum for Dummies

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    Statistical Treatment of Findings

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    Introduction to Statistical Inference

  13. Blockchain for Dummies

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    Walt Disney

  15. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

  16. A Thousand Brains

  17. Hackers and Painters

  18. 4 Hour Work Week

  19. Leonardo da Vinci

  20. Atomic Habits

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    How to Create a Mind

  22. 5

    American Kingpin

  23. 4

    Greenlights

  24. Radical Markets

  25. Tech Titans of China

  26. Innovation Ecosystem in India

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    Investment & Advisory for Startups and Businesses

  28. The man who knew the way to the moon

  29. 5

    The science of Interstellar

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    Equity Compensations

2020

26

  1. Hooked

  2. Platform Revolution

  3. 4

    Every tool’s a hammer

  4. 4

    The Art of Game Design

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    Designing Great Data Products

  6. 5

    Creativity Inc.

  7. The war of art

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    Virtual & Augmented Reality for Dummies

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    Creating augmented and virtual realities

  10. 2

    How to win friends and influence people

  11. The Dip

  12. 5

    Permanent Record

  13. The Magic of Thinking Big

  14. 4

    The Lean Startup

  15. 3

    Lean Analytics

  16. 3

    Edison

  17. 3

    iWoz

  18. 4

    Zero to One

  19. 3

    The Singularity Is Near

  20. 4

    Sapiens

  21. 3

    Homo Deus

  22. Infinite Retina

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    5

    American Kingpin

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    Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad

  25. The History of the Future

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    Accounting for dummies

2019

05

  1. The New China Playbook

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    Learning to Learn

  3. Clean Code

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    5

    American Kingpin

  5. 4

    Zero to One