I do respect “genius”, say, Einstein, Bill Gates, and I believe that their great success lie in their talent, their hard-working. In a word, I regard their success as a consequence of their own characteristic.
But, what about the outside environment? Did they rely on something on their way to success? Had things like birthplace, ethnic, …
Monthly Archives: June 2009
BookThinking:Everyone Is A Miracle
Finished Reading Outliers
I feel pleased finished reading this fantastic book.
Spent 2 days on it, I’ve learned many fresh ideas on the way I understand success(or more exactly, what lead to success).
Everything we have learned in Ourliers says that success follows a predictable course. It is not the brightest who succeed. If it were, Chris Langan would be …
Reading:Outliers
After finished reading The Google Story, I immediately took Outliers down from my bookshelf.
Yet reached Page 126, Chapter 5.
So what Outliers means exactly? The author showed us the answer in the Introduction:
1: something that is situated away from or classed different from a main or related body.
2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in …
Finished Reading The Google Story
After several days’ effort. Finally, I finished reading The Google Story.
Eh…
What I wanna mention is its Chapter 24 : The China Syndrome
But getting more deeply involved in China posed problems too.The country was ruled by a sprawling Communist bureaucracy that actively monitored, restricted, and censored the Internet. Doing business there ran in the face of …
News:China dominates NSA-backed coding contest
Today The Google Story reached Chapter 16.
Just read a lot of news, when trying to subscribe some blogs on ‘Code’ and ‘Programming’.
Found this on digg.com :
Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.
Whether the outcome of this competition is another sign that math and science …
Reading:The Google Story
Yet I’m planning to read many English books.
I’ve bought The Google Story, Outliers, Blink, and Shelley’s Poetry and Prose.
CPY lent me Angles & Demons.
And my father bought a pair of Lost Horizon(One in Chinese,the other in English…).
So, you see really many books on my bookshelf.
Just as the title said, I’m now reading The Google Story(Updated …