Interests

• Baking recipes

• Cranberry orange scones
• Banana bread chocolate chip
• Baked turkey patties burger
• Red bean rice cake
• Fluffy cream cheese bread
• Apple cake
• Coffee milk cake
• Blueberry cheesecake
• Upside down Asian pear cake
• Sweet Corn bread
• oreo crumble cake

 

Cooking recipes

• Pork ribs with rock sugar
• Beef barbacoa on instant pot
• Persian rice pilaf
• Cilantro lime rice
• Corned beef

Books

• Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
• Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
• Rise and Fall of DODO

 

Warren Buffet book picks (from this youtube video)

• Common Stocks Uncommon Profits, Philip A. Fisher
• Business Adventures, 12 classic tales from the world of Wall St, John Brooks
• Where are the customer's Yatchs, Fred Schwed
• Essays in Persuasion, John Maynard Keynes
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, John C Bogle (Vanguard founder)
• Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charles T Munger
• The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham, summary youtube video link
• The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
• The Outsiders, William Thorndike Jr
• The Clash of Cultures, Investment vs Speculation, John C Bogle
• Dream Big, 3G Investments (Inbev), Cristiane Correa

Seeking Roots

• Chahar province maps
• Taiwan
• Article in progress 

 

Learning Languages 

• Japanese: wanikani, tofugu, study list
• Chinese: sort by frequency, traditional, study list
• Korean: resources, how-to-study-korean
• English: etymology dictionary 

Aging Gracefully 

• Exercising (article)

Investing

• Options, call and put
• option contract is an agreement between 2 parties with a set expiration date and a strike price. Buying a call option gives option buyer the right to buy stock at the strike price while put option gives option buyer the right to sell the stock to option seller at a usually lower than current price
• ETF vs mutual fund
• History of money
• Learn JS charting
• Stock chart with AnyChart JS

 

Economy

• K-shaped recovery
• Trump movement

History

• Spice trade
• East-west exchanges:silk road
• Climate change, Pupa Gilbert (corals)

 

Top 10 problems

UN top 22, resolve by 2030

• income inequality
• race and gender inequality
• greenhouse gases and climate change
• government corruption and transparency
• government effectiveness, deliver services at minimum costs  
• economic and job opportunities
• automation and workforce re-training
• food and water security 
• health care and pestilence 
• education opportunities
• conflicts and wars

 

 

 

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