康熙大帝
如果你是那种看历史书就想睡觉的人，不妨拿这本书瞅一眼。虽然写法不伦不类（好比让周星驰重新编出来的“红楼梦”），但娱乐性高，容易读。只是部分内容有说教的嫌疑，加上说教的部分有时前后矛盾，所描述的历史事件在时间线上也不对办。若想认真对待这本书，则难免有点失望。
Author Archives: 5tephen 4eo
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
This is a classic example of too many cooks spoil the broth. I’ve watch the talk by Simon Sinek and he definitely has some thought-provoking ideas. Unfortunately when he and the rest of the gang tried to pull together a project like this, their voices are disjointed and their messaging, repetitive. The book ended up… Read More »
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Disappointed. A book that purports to be a cutting-edge primer on what it takes to be “original” (as Sheryl Sandberg puts it in the Foreword) has very little original insights in it. In fact, this mash-up of snippets from other books on pop psychology contradicts its original premise that “to become original, you have to… Read More »
Blue Ocean Strategy
Hindsight is 20/20. The problem with books of this nature is that they often appear to be cherry-picking data to fit the narrative. So, do you want the blue pill or the red pill?
Curiosity
I did a tear-down of an old, non-functional laptop and retrieved these parts. My son saw what I was doing and was curious to watch but my wife told him to study for his PSLE. Way to kill curiosity!
Hmmmm…
After a long layoff (been busy listening to Dan Carlin’s superb “Hardcore History“), I came back and listened to the “How I Built This” podcast again. This show has an impressive line-up of interview subjects (probably thanks to the NPR branding), but the line of questioning by Guy Raz is riddled with many softball questions.… Read More »