Notes on DDIA: systematically organizing core concepts of OLTP/OLAP, cloud-native, data lakehouse, and excerpts of brilliant insights on distributed data systems
Notes on Sapiens: from the Cognitive Revolution to money and empire, how Homo sapiens built civilization through the power of fiction, exploring humanity's grand journey from animals to gods
Notes on Rich Dad Poor Dad: the core idea that 'the poor work for money, while the rich make money work for them,' exploring financial literacy and the gap between passive and active learning
Notes on Elon Musk: from Zip2 to SpaceX and Tesla, the legendary entrepreneurial journey of disrupting multiple industries with the ultimate mission 'for humanity'
Notes on Educated and Atomic Habits: a legendary true story of how education transforms destiny, and the scientific methodology of building good habits
Notes on Average Is Over: exploring the risk of the middle class being displaced in the AI era, rising learning costs, and intensifying polarization in the future
Reading notes on Wild: a memoir of the author's solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, rediscovering herself through a journey into nature amidst loss and pain
Reading notes on When Breath Becomes Air and What Life Should Mean to You — a surgeon's reflections on terminal cancer, and the core ideas of Adlerian individual psychology
Reading notes on To Kill a Mockingbird: a story of racial prejudice and justice told through a young girl's eyes, with an in-depth analysis of Bob Ewell's death and the 'mockingbird' metaphor
Reading notes on Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey tetralogy: from the TMA-1 monolith to the ignition of Jupiter, exploring the grand narrative of alien life guiding human evolution