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Find What You Love My impression on Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech for Stanford’s2005 class

Trip to Argentina Diary of my two weeks in Argentina in October 2005

Orkut Profile I think it is more interesting than the MSN profile


	Collapse by Jared Diamond Explains the geographic and environmental reasons why some ancient human societies have fallen apart

	El Alquimista by Paulo Coelho This story teach us to listen to our heart and follow our dreams

	Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Great data analysis on interesting real-world issues

	Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization becamehegemonic: Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs.

	Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini Interesting account on human and social behavior

	The Art of War by Sun Tzu The old principles described in the book are still valid today,moreover, can be applied to business as well.

	The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham The best book on investments basics I have ever read

	Winning by Jack Welch In this book Jack Welch provides great advice for business leaders and individual contributor as how to develop their careers and win in the marketplace