Personal Corner

Books

Over the years, I have developed a hobby of reading. Lately, I have been reading non-fiction, particularly related to economics, money, financial systems, and social awareness. Here is the partial list of books I have read and I am reading.

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• The Buddha and His Teachings (Venerable Narada)

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Stephen R. Covey)

• Twenty-Something: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster (Ian Hollingshead)

• The Patience Stone (Atiq Rahimi)

• The First Teacher (Chinghiz Aitmatov)

• The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)

• The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)

• An Encouragement of Learning (Fukuzawa Yukichi)

• Animal Farm | 1984 (George Orwell)

• And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Solokhov)

• Nobody’s Boy (Hector Malot)

• Coure (Edmondo De Amicis)

• The Old Man and the Sea (Ernst Hemingway)

• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Amy Chua)

• Le Petit Nicholas Series (René Goscinny)

• The Pendragon Series (D. J. MacHale)

• Rich Dad Poor Dad | Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students and “B” Students Work for The Government (Robert Kiyosaki)

• Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market (Murray Rothbard)

• Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)

• The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia’s Quest for Wealth (Michael Schuman)

• The American Jubilee (Porter Stansberry)

• Made in Korea (Richard M. Steers)

• Made in Japan – Autobiography of Akio Morita (Sony)

• Trials May Not Fail – Autobiography of Chung Ju Yung (Huyndai)

• Life After Google: The fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (George Gilder)

• The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis–and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance (Senator Ben Sasse)

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan Peterson)

• Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman)

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I am, and always will be, striving to bolster my knowledge in various topics and social awareness as well as my technical expertise.