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A hedge fund manager and Columbia Business School professor shows how "beating the market" can be made simple and easy …
Alexander Hamilton is a 2004 biography of American statesman Alexander Hamilton, written by historian and biographer Ron Chernow. Hamilton, one …
Ready Player Two is a 2020 science fiction novel by American author Ernest Cline. It …
Good ideas, old plots
The idea of a dystopia with a matrix like world for people to indulge in creates a great background story. The plot twist is old and cliche, and the main characters have too such or an aura. It is still a good page tuner, with movie level epic scenes.
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future is a 2012 book …
The 1 percent in America has successfully convinced the 99 percent that their interest is the most critical to our society, and should be held of highest value. But that's never the truth. The continuingly increasing, and currently high level of inequality since Regean time showed us the myth of trickle down is a complete nonsense. The stagnant, or even lowering, of real wages for most Americans revealed the true incentive behind the myth , to suck wealth from the bottom to the top. That's indeed what's happening in the past three decades or so. We desperately need reform of our political and financial system to make it work for the public good, before further dividing our society into haves and have-nos. maybe it is already too late at 2017.
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First …
Amazing journey to help us guide through a unpredictable and noise world
A great guide of life, especially in a dire time when noise easily overshadows signal. But the more noisy the world, the more we need to distinguish the noise and signal. This is definitely a book to help that.
Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. …
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior …
"The true story of how an unlikely leader helped inspire a team of rocket scientists …
The book was not well structured or edited, and probably wraps a little more technical and personal details than necessary. It reads like a lightly edited oral interview except for the epilogue.
That being said, there is a lack of books in the genre of traditional engineering, compared to large volume of books in computer and internet engineering. That alone makes this book unique and especially interesting to read. And peel off the some time self-centered rhetoric, the life lessons from the author is actually of great value to young engineers. The struggles he faced within large organization, and the efforts he made to become a respected and intelligent engineering leader in a place like JPL is well worth the time and effort.
Overall, I think the two most valuable points to take away from the book are:
1. Work hard and think thoroughly, communicate with well-considered answers, and help …
The book was not well structured or edited, and probably wraps a little more technical and personal details than necessary. It reads like a lightly edited oral interview except for the epilogue.
That being said, there is a lack of books in the genre of traditional engineering, compared to large volume of books in computer and internet engineering. That alone makes this book unique and especially interesting to read. And peel off the some time self-centered rhetoric, the life lessons from the author is actually of great value to young engineers. The struggles he faced within large organization, and the efforts he made to become a respected and intelligent engineering leader in a place like JPL is well worth the time and effort.
Overall, I think the two most valuable points to take away from the book are:
1. Work hard and think thoroughly, communicate with well-considered answers, and help other people and achieve goals. Greatness can be achieved, while the good person will be vacuumed up in any reasonable organization.
2. Strike the right balance between risk and solutions, engineers are not paid to do things right, but to do things just right. The lowest risk solution that just meet the requirement, even it might be low-brow at times, is the best solution under most circumstances.
After she and a dozen other children found them being raised by "Father," a cruel man with mysterious powers, Carolyn …
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of …
J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (PARTS ONE AND TWO) (Chinese Edition) by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany (Chinese language, 2016, Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si)
"十九年過去了, 哈利波特從一個勇敢的男孩蛻變為三個孩子的父親. 即使如此, 他依然深陷於往事的惡夢中, 他夢見父母, 夢見犧牲的夥伴, 思念和歉疚緊緊抓著他不放. 當他的閃電疤痕隱隱作痛, 哈利開始懷疑:「那個人」難道還沒有放過他? 最讓哈利感到憂心的, 是他與小兒子阿不思降至冰點的關係. 如果可以的話, 阿不思真不願意身為哈利波特的兒子, 彷彿必須要成為另一則「傳奇」, 才配得上他的父親. 阿不思的困擾也許只有天蠍能懂, 天蠍有個惡名昭彰的父親--跩哥馬份, 魔法學校甚至流傳著謠言:天蠍是佛地魔之子！於是, 兩個男孩成為無話不談的好友, 他們都無法選擇, …
