October 2022
17 articles published
2022.10.24 - A 9.6 million km² territory cannot accommodate a youth that refuses to strive
2022.10.17 - How's life now for you doing front-end development?
2022.10.10 - The Future of the Web is on the Edge
2022.10.03 - Don't worry, Nobody is Replacing Node, not Even Bun and Even less Deno
Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg & Notorious RBG
Introduction After watching the documentary The Justice Ginsburg (Douban rating 9.4) and reading the book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Douban rating 8....
Delivering the Message to Garcia
Because of the article “From ‘A Message to Garcia’ to Where the ‘Ideal Employee’ Comes From,” I was tempted to pick up this book. The actual reading experience, however, was rather...
Nintendos Experience Design
Douban link 1 Author Biography (excerpted from the book) Yushun Shinichiro, Representative of Rikai Affairs Office Born in 1977. Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology and ...
The Overachievers in My Friend Circle
Douban link "The Top Students of the Friend Circle" (《朋友圈的尖子生》) is a book that Xiao Ma Song (小马宋) wrote over two months. It leans heavily toward essayistic prose and is extremely c...
The Anxious One
Douban link The Anxious Person is one of the two books I discovered on the Xu Manman Psychology Talk WeChat public account. Both books are written by Swedish author Fredrik Backman...
A Man Called Ove Decides to Die
A Man Called Ove Draws Me In No more preamble—watch the trailer of the eponymous film first, preferably with sound (the score is wonderful). The full movie is available on Youku. T...
Bucket List: A Palliative Care Worker’s Memoir
Death Is Not Far From Us Douban “The Bucket List” (《遗愿清单》) After finishing Yang Jiang’s We Three (《我们仨》), WeChat Reading recommended The Bucket List: A Palliative Care Worker’s Jou...
We Three: Through Life’s Storms, Family Is What Holds Us Together
Full text: 1,004 characters, about 5 minutes read Douban “We Three” (《我们仨》) In November I binge‑watched the novel Fortress Besieged (《围城》) and the TV drama starring Chen Daoming. A...
Welcome to the Netherlands
“Welcome to the Netherlands” is an essay by Emily Pearl Kingsley, a mother of a child with Down syndrome. The piece describes what it feels like when life’s expectations are upende...
The Competition Still Goes On, Anyway
This Is a Leisure Book In August, I eagerly answered the call from the earlier “Goldman Sachs 101 Lessons” to “Read at least one book per month that has nothing to do with what you...
The Five Biggest Barriers to Team Collaboration
Preface Being at my factory, the thing that gives me the biggest headache and challenge is team collaboration. I stumbled upon this book on WeChat Reading, spent a weekend binge‑re...
Happiness Beyond Perfection
Douban link (new edition, no rating) Douban link (old edition, rating 8.7) 1. Author Biography Tal Ben‑Shahar, Ph.D., holds dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and philosophy fro...
Mr. Toad Goes to See a Psychologist
Introduction This book, written by veteran British psychotherapist Robert Deed, has been a national bestseller in the UK for over 20 years as an introductory text to psychological ...