Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by RogerFisher, William L. Ury

Focus on both principles and incentives of each other, not one's position. This is a well-balanced book, in terms of theories and examples.

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Zero to One / Peter Thiel

To work on an eternal value-added process, don't do a commodity business; hold a monopolistic influence in a market.

Humans and computers are good at different things; a computer is just a tool to help a human (pursue a higher productivity), not a rival to replace a human.

Seven questions for a successful business:

1. Engineering

Breakthrough, not a gradual change

2. Timing

Appropriate timing to begin with?

3. Monopoly

Start with a small market that you can be dominant.

4. Team

Build a team.

5. Sales & Marketing

Not only product development, but sales & marketing

6. Eternity

A right positioning to survive in the market in the next 10-20 years?

7. Hidden truth

Nobody but you noticed the unique truth?

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The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Markets could go too far without proper regulations. Greed is a precondition of financial markets because it drives the market. Having appropriate incentive systems under the precondition is a practical solution to avoid and/or mitigate impacts from financial crises.

To be a good investor, you have to be realistic and do your own deep research to see facts and doubt about what has been believed.

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Creativity is connecting dots.

Creativity is not creating something from scratch; rather, it's connecting dots, which are somebody's findings, knowledge, experience, works, and so on.