I’ve gathered the things I find worth revisiting, in eight categories. Books, documentaries, videos, and talks. They shaped me, and will probably keep shaping me.
Economy
- [Kidd] How the economy runs
- How the Economic Machine Works · Ray Dalio
- Within the System
Philosophy and Life
- American documentary: Samsara
- Interviewing Harvard students: what is the meaning of life, and how do you stay motivated?
- 5G, Huawei, Turkey — the secret behind 5G
- Those Things About the Ming Dynasty
- To Live
- Life of Pi
- Primary and secondary school textbooks
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Make Something Wonderful
- Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement address
- Naval Ravikant on life, work, and wisdom
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
- CoolShell · Chen Hao
Politics
- Feng Junqi, Cadres of a Central County (Peking University doctoral dissertation)
- Back to Back, Face to Face
Computer Science
- Bill Gates teaches: how computers work
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Learning
Taste
- The opening animation of Apple’s 2019 fall event, “Marvelous Design”
- Zhang Dai’s “Snow at Huxin Pavilion”: shadows on the lake — only a trace of the long causeway, a dot of the pavilion, and a mustard-seed of my boat
- Chinese photographer · Fan Ho
- Hong Kong photographer Fan Ho, interviewed: “The Decisive Moment”
- They run toward the audience with hair flowing, like a free wind · the dance drama Dream of the Red Chamber
- Dream Reminiscences of Tao’an
Psychology
Others
- Where does China come from? — a geographic view
- “History books are too small to hold one person’s magnificent life; history books are too big, holding five thousand years of China”
- I built Iron Man’s robotic arm
The “Snow at Huxin Pavilion” entry on this list later had a sequel: I turned it into a snowy West Lake you can row into — Snow at Huxin Pavilion · an interactive scene.