Reading Digest: Pour Your Heart Into It

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Early this year, I came across the book Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time when browsing some reading list recommendation article on Medium or somewhere else. I finished reading the book today, and here are my digests.

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Zero to One: Spectroscope for the World of Business

In the last few days, I read the book Zero to One, which has been hot esp. in IT field since late 2014. The insightful ideas make it a spectroscope for the world of business, you can have a better vision of a company’s future with analytic patterns used by the author – Peter Thiel, at least on the very superficial level.

I regret to have read this book so late, if you are an IT practitioner, Z2O is strongly recommended.

Below are some of the digests I made, in the very beginning part nothing’s highlighted due to the unfamiliarity to my newly obtained Kindle PW3 🙂
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Jazz Trio Beside the Forbidden City



半个月前DJ有待发布了新的一期《有待咖啡馆》,介绍爵士少年阿布,超越年龄的曲风给我留下了极深影响,当天决定买票。

今晚现场聆听,深受感染,演奏的时候阿布低头沉浸在乐曲中,偶尔抬头与搭档眼神沟通,Bass手中村健吾(Kengo Nakamura)在中间,十分投入,会随着节奏左摇右晃,与左侧的阿布、右侧的Ryan遥相呼应,有时候看他们眉来眼去觉得很有意思,鼓手Ryan J. Lee时不时还会活跃现场气氛,调动观众参与。

出于尊重,没有在演出期间拍照,只拍了张末尾一次离场时的舞台。大家可以戴上耳机,打开上面的播放器,听听那期让我决定买票看现场的节目。

Zenith of the City

两周前去上海出了趟差,赶着清早的飞机回北京,透过波音777的舷窗拍下了上面这幅照片。

在上海生活三年,从一开始每走一步都要抱着GPS导航,到后来随便给我一张照片差不多都能猜出是在上海哪个位置,对这座城市的感情是不言自明的。

2012年听说陆家嘴的上海中心要到2015年盖好,那时的我想,等到15年,我还不知道自己在不在上海呢,想不到三年后真的就北上离开了。这三年发生了那么多事,好几次抉择,如果当时选了另一项,我都不会是现在的我。所以当被问到以后的打算,我会笑笑说,以后的事,以后会知道的。