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Roman Mars, 99% Invisible: 99% Invisible City (2020, Hodder & Stoughton)

A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the …

A new perspective to see your city

This book gives wonderful little tidbits and facts of the “ordinary” things you might not really notice in your commute around your city; from colourful utility codes on city streets to faux building fronts strategically hiding electric substations to acts of “guerrilla gardening.”

I never knew of the podcast, of which the books is based on, but now I’m excited to give it a listen.

Tony Fadell: Build (Hardcover, 2022, Harper Business)

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs …

Packed with good advice

There are lots of gold nuggets in this book. Tony does a great job of keeping things to their bare essentials and writing in a super clear, welcoming way. What more can we expect from the person that helped bring us the iPod, iPhone, and Nest. 10/10, would recommend!

Xiaowei Wang: Blockchain Chicken Farm (2020, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Note about the author: The author is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns in English.

"A …

A nice journey through the high-tech countryside

I enjoyed reading this book!

The author wonderfully walks through how rural revitalization is turning small pockets of villages & farms across China into high-tech communities. I learned a lot about the high-tech side of the quaint countrysides; and as a bonus, the author writes beautifully and you feel like you are a fellow visitor accompanying them in their trips across the country.

Lots to learn and absorb here.