Design

2023 Reading Challenge

This year I made change to the theme only, and buy no more book: Reading Theme: UX & Design Thinking. Narrow to fewer subjects: philosophy, psychology, French, UX. Clear some

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Biology

2022 Reading Challenge

My reading strategy in 2021 worked so far, so I just made some tweaks: Reading Theme: Attention. Narrow to fewer subjects: philosophy, psychology, linguistics (less classics, more Latin), UX. Clear

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Biology

Exercise · Diet · Sleep

minutes Nowadays, we are being constantly bombarded of how to get thin, which diets to follow, what exercises to take, or how to squeeze more out of 24 hours (usually

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Auschwitz Holocaust
Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six

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The Philosophy Book
Philosophy

Philosophy

The Great Conversation Plato Aristotle Lucretius On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro) Epictetus The Discourses (translated by George Long) Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (translated by George Long) Plotinus The Six Enneads (translated by Stephen

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Fiction

Great Books of the Western World

The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read; and it must be a part of “the great conversation about the great ideas”, relevant to at least 25 of the 102 great ideas identified by the editors. The books were not chosen on the basis of ethnic and cultural inclusiveness, historical influence, or the editors’ agreement with the views expressed by the authors.

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The Shakespreare Book
Fiction

Shakespeare

This is a chronological ordered list of Shakespeare’s plays extracted from The Shakespeare Book and The Complete Works of Shakespreare, grouped by types and periods: The Freelance Writer (1589-1594) The

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Fiction

Minnie’s Reading List

Reading is fun, but also frustrated with young readers. Some obstacles they may encounter are lack of motivation, no guideline, boring or challenging books,…

Applying psychology principles in flow and motivation, I have some guidelines that encouraged my daughter in her quest as a lifetime reader.

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2021 Goodreads Reading Challenge
Biology

2021 Reading Challenge

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 gave me a rare chance to start a reading journal. In the hindsight, I could do better by planning ahead and sticking to filtering rules.
𝕹arrow my subjects to a few: 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 (𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰, 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺), 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 (𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯, 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩), 𝘜𝘟 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯
𝕻rioritize mental model books over informative or entertaining ones.
𝕮reate long-term reading list: Gʀᴇᴀᴛ Bᴏᴏᴋs ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Wᴇsᴛᴇʀɴ Wᴏʀʟᴅ, Cʟᴀssɪᴄ Lɪᴛᴇʀᴀᴛᴜʀᴇs, Sʜᴀᴋᴇsᴘᴇᴀʀᴇ

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Psychology

50+ Cognitive Biases

Nếu đã đọc qua Thinking, Fast and Slow, hẳn bạn đã biết hai hệ thống suy nghĩ khác nhau của con người: Hệ thống 1 và Hệ thống 2.
Hệ thống 1 phản ứng rất nhanh trong các tình huống, giúp cuộc sống của chúng ta dễ dàng hơn. Tuy nhiên, trong nhiều tình huống, hệ thống này dẫn đến các thiên kiến.

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