In 2022, I mainly read books on literature and financial management, and added several miscellaneous books, as follows:
4 books of literature and history
Soft Skills 2 - A Software Developer's Career Guide - John Semmez
"Three-Body Problem: Dark Forest" - Liu Cixin
"Three-Body Problem: Immortal Death" - Liu Cixin
"Top of the Wave" - Wu Jun
Financial management 7 books
"Restore the Real Federal Reserve" - Wang Jian
The Rich Man's Secret in Babylon - George Classen
"Stay Inside: Chinese Government and Economic Development" - Lan Xiaohuan
Mastering Ethereum: Developing Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications - Andreas M. Antonpoulos
"Blockchain: The Road to Asset Digitization" - Andreas M. Antonpoulos
"Blockchain: Technology-Driven Finance" - Arvind Narayanan, Josh Bennu
The Blockchain Apocalypse: An Anthology of Satoshi Nakamoto - Phil Champagne
4 other books
"Pick up a mobile phone, everyone is a photographer" - curly hair Tong
"You are what you eat" - Xia Meng
The Giant's Method - Tim Ferriss
"I taught myself English in 100 days and changed my life" - Zhang Tongwan
Below I will focus on introducing a few books that I personally recognize and would like to recommend to everyone for repeated reading .
The Secret of the Rich Man in Babylon
Very good book, worth reading multiple times! The author 平实、简练的语言tells the stories of several Babylonian-related characters, and through the stories of the characters, draws out the secrets and wisdom of Babylonian wealth .
Bashir's story impressed me the most. He was enlightened and established a firm belief-from slave to free man ! Explains the truth that where there is a will, there is a way .
The ancient wisdom in the Babylonian world is blessed through short stories, without traces of preaching , endowing wisdom with profound connotations, easier for readers to accept, and really profound. Take one of the stories as an example. The protagonist owed a lot of debts and spent all the money he earned, leaving him poor and useless. A wise man told him to learn to save and not to owe debts. So the owner went to his creditors one by one, told them that he would definitely pay off the debts, and planned to pay half of the monthly salary to the creditors respectively, which was expected to be paid in one year, and hoped that the creditors would not press for the debt. In this way, the owner no longer spends money randomly, but saves part of his income and uses the other part to pay off debts. After 1 year, not only the debt was paid off, but also a sum of money was saved. This story highlights the importance of saving.
What needs to be reminded is that the book introduces generalized wisdom, not technical books on financial management in modern society, but it is worth buying physical books and financial management books that have been read many times!
"Blockchain Road to Asset Digitization", "Technology Driven Finance", "Blockchain Apocalypse" and "Mastering Ethereum"
These 4 books all introduce the blockchain, and they are also the first 4 books I read in 22 years. For readers who want to understand blockchain or work on blockchain, these 4 books are must-reads.
The blockchain is a distributed ledger , and each party involved in bookkeeping stores all records.
Its important feature is 不可篡改性that this is guaranteed by the PoW Proof of Work mechanism. Each record on the chain needs to perform certain calculation tasks. If more than half of the parties with the ledger have the same calculation results, the record is accepted and recognized. If you want to tamper with the record, you need to start from the tampered place 重新计算后面的所有记录. Such a calculation is huge and cannot be completed! Therefore, the records on the blockchain are difficult to tamper with, and the design of the workload proof also leads to the slow efficiency of the blockchain, which restricts its application.
Here Amway is a technology guru 安德烈亚斯.M.安东波罗斯. He wrote 2 of the above 4 books. He is a well-known technical expert and serial entrepreneur who founded the company when he was a teenager. Compared with the two books, the author's own experience is more worthy of reference.
From these 4 books, it is found that blockchain technology was born in the civil community. In the early days, some enthusiasts were running blockchain nodes, calculating and obtaining bitcoins. At the current price of Bitcoin, many of these early participants are billionaires. Being fortunate enough to participate in a technological wave will greatly accumulate personal wealth. Of course, this is something that cannot be met.
The Three-Body Problem 2 3
The reason why I read the Three-Body Problem is because Bilibili launched the "Anime Version Three-Body Problem" at the end of 2022, which aroused my interest, so I went to read the book, but I only read Part 2 and Part 3, Part 1 I did not see.
"The Three-Body Problem" 叙事宏大and 想象力奇诡, describe the story of different civilizations falling in love and killing each other in the vast expanse of space (human beings and the Three-Body Problem).
In the second part of the Wall-Facing Project, the logic realized the law of the dark forest, helping human beings to deter the Three-Body Civilization. The three fairy tales left by Yun Tianming in the third part are very exciting , both interesting and literary. The combination of the three stories has left clues to the advanced civilization and technology of the Trisolaran world, and the process of human beings to decipher the stories is also worth reading. Finally, when human civilization is compressed from three-dimensional to two-dimensional by the two-way foil, the author's description of this process is very wonderful. Mercury and Venus were flattened one after another and turned into two-dimensional images, and then the entire solar system was flattened to present Images, like Van Gogh's "Starry Night" oil painting.
In the universe based on the law of the dark forest, different civilizations hurt each other. If you want to continue your own civilization, you must either wrap yourself in the "slow fog" or lower your living dimension from high dimension to low dimension. Civilizations that do not adapt to low dimensions will be eliminated.
others
The book "You Are What You Eat" is highly recommended. The author combines nutritional knowledge and clinical experience to propose how to eat from a nutritional perspective. It has revolutionized my diet concept. Eating is not about being full, but about eating nutritiously ! Many diseases or discomforts of the human body may be due to unscientific diet and lack of certain nutrients. Eating nutritious, scientific, human body is healthy!
"I Taught Myself English in 100 Days and Turned My Life Around" introduces how to improve English. The key to the author's success is not only mastering the correct method, but more importantly, he has devoted himself to learning English for a period of time , so that he can focus, not be distracted, and make rapid progress. This is also the depth of my latest insights, that is, my energy has been dispersed on many things, and I am not focused enough . There is often only one thing that I can do in a year, and I can’t do more. If I do too much, I can’t do everything. good.
book of the year
"The Secret of the Rich Man in Babylon", "You Are What You Eat" and "The Three-Body Problem" are the three most important books I selected from this year.
"The Secret of the Rich Man in Babylon" is easy to understand and accept, and it hides great wisdom in small stories.
"You Are What You Eat" has revolutionized my diet concept. Eating is not about being full, but about eating nutritiously.
The imagination of "Three-Body Problem" is weird, and the vast universe world depicted by the author is very shocking. Readers who have time strongly recommend it.
Summarize
Starting to officially enter the workplace in 2022, I obviously feel that the reading time has decreased, not more than 21 years. With less reading time, I still hope to focus on some good books . Many books I have read before have not been fully understood, and I need to re-read them several times.
Pay more attention to effective reading , that is, the books you have read must be able to summarize practical and feasible solutions to improve yourself.
This point carries over to 2021. It is really important to read more books and read good books . I hope I can stick to it.