Reading#
- "Understanding Financial Statements with One Book"
- "Tokyo Eight Square Meters"
Why read these finance-related books? The direct reason is that I have been paying attention to the stock market during the financial reporting season, and I want to have a deeper understanding of company financial statements. In addition, my undergraduate major was interdisciplinary, and I have also taken some economics courses. So reading this book is not difficult for me. Overall, the language of this book is very easy to understand. For example, "The balance sheet is the camera of a company" indicates that the balance sheet is only a snapshot concept, while "The income statement is the camcorder of a company" indicates that the income statement is a period concept.
"Eight square meters" represents the smallest unit of living space and is also the temporary residence of the author's small universe. Eight square meters is small, and Tokyo is a big city. Between small and large, although the author records some daily trivial matters, they also have warmth and are relatable. It reminds me of another book I read before, "A Person's Small Prosperity". The similarity is that the authors of these two books are girls who came from small places to Tokyo to strive for a better life, and they are both looking for small happiness in ordinary life.
Podcasts#
- NVIDIA, Sora, and the Three Core Narrative Logics of AI | Conversation with Mo Jelin
- Are We the Masters or Slaves of Emotions? A Conversation about Emotions and Hormones with a PhD in Brain Science from Peking University
A recent podcast episode about AI that I found very exciting. The guests discuss the characteristics and future development of the AI 2.0 era from the perspectives of AI trends and exploration, investment and entrepreneurship, competition and dimensions. When it comes to the competition between startups and large companies in this field, the guests use the game "Agar.io" as an analogy, which is very vivid.
This podcast episode contains a lot of valuable information. It discusses topics such as "the reward mechanism of dopamine," "how to explain addictive behavior," and "dopamine does not simply encode happiness, but essentially encodes the difference between expectation and reality." After listening to this podcast episode, I finally understand from a scientific perspective "why lowering expectations can lead to happiness" in psychology.
Articles Read#
- How Far Are We From Automating Front-End Engineering
- Vue Amsterdam
- Is It Really Not Allowed to Define Child Components in React Components?