I recently finished the book, Becoming, by Michelle Obama. Tracing back to her childhood, she was no special than any other kids living in South Side Chicago. Her dad was a city water plant employee, and her mom stayed home taking care of the family. Her high school counsellor never thought she was “Princeton material”Continue reading “Becoming: Find the Path to Becoming ME”
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Co-opetition: A Business Game That’s No Longer Us vs. Them
This was one of the optional readings assigned by my professor in one of the business strategy classes back in grad school. I read business books, but I’d never put my emotions in. To me, reading in another sense is like dating. I meet with the authors and the characters, get to know them, andContinue reading “Co-opetition: A Business Game That’s No Longer Us vs. Them”
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.”
I’m not a science person. I did study Mathematics back in undergrad and was involved in some topology projects, but I’m afraid that was my last real encounter with the hard-core scientific world. However, I’m always curious about science, about how things work and why they work that way. A friend of mine who’s doingContinue reading ““Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.””
The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
This book was a long read, and it was not an easy one either. It took me almost a month to finish it, and from time to time I felt the impulse to flip back a couple of pages to check the earlier stories of that person that was mentioned later in the book againContinue reading “The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China”
Bad Blood: Evil Money Can Buy Everything, But Don’t Be That Asshole
The hype of Theranos scandal and its founder Elizabeth Holmes drove me to the reading of this book, Bad Blood. It was a book about how this smart young lady who dropped out from Stanford founded a company that aimed to fundamentally change the way people draw bloods, which later turned out to be aContinue reading “Bad Blood: Evil Money Can Buy Everything, But Don’t Be That Asshole”
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