Reading

Collection of things that I've read. Whether it's good, bad, heavy, light, deep, shallow, amazing, or mediocre, most of them shape the way I perceive the world and myself, more than any form of media out there.

2025 * 10

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“What do you think the enemy is afraid of?” “You! Scientists! The odd thing is that the less practical your research is, the more they’re afraid of you—like abstract theories, the kind of thing Yang Dong worked on. They are more frightened of such work than you are of the universe winking at you. When a scientist dies, another will take his place. But if his thoughts are confused, then science is over.”

⭐️ The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

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“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”

The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million

Mark Roberge

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“In most professional services, you are not really selling expertise—because your expertise is assumed, and because your prospect cannot intelligently evaluate your expertise anyway. Instead, you are selling a relationship.”

Selling the Invisibles: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Harry Beckwith

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“If you understand the math behind compounding you realize the most important question is not ‘How can I earn the highest returns?’ It’s ‘What are the best returns I can sustain for the longest period of time?’”

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

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“Sales is about action, and analysis-paralysis is not a quality that tends to produce new business development success.”

Sales Management. Simplified: The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team

Mike Weinberg

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“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time—none, zero.”

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charles T. Munger

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“Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.”

⭐️ The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

Morgan Housel

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“Doing the thing that scared me most—giving away my secrets—led to the biggest breakthrough in my life.”

⭐️ $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers to Want to Buy Your Stuff

Alex Hormozi

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You’re not a drop in the ocean; you’re the entire ocean in a teacup—make it a fancy one!

Feel Good Productivity

Ali Abdaal

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“The arrival is inevitable: Death. A unanimous end, a unified destination. A noun without regard. Our eulogy. Written. Lived. The approach is relative: Life**. A singular procession, our personal journey. A verb with regard. Our résumé. Write it. Live it.”

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

2024 * 8

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No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgensen, Tim Ferris

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“He was not the strongest, nor the fastest. But he was the bravest. And sometimes, that is enough.”

⭐️ Watership Down

Richard Adams

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“The easiest way to be miserable is to want people to behave the way you expect them to.”

⭐️ Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Anthony De Mello

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“The greatest legislative victories are rarely loud. They are shaped in whispers, promises, and the quiet pressure of a hand on a shoulder.”

Master of the Senate

Robert A Caro

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"You don’t have to be years ahead, just minutes ahead of the market, the competition, and those they lead. The key is frequent interaction with customers, competitors, and employees."

⭐️ Scaling Up

Verne Harnish

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"But he was still hungry :)."

⭐️ A Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

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Motivation is fickle. Systems are forever.

⭐️ Atomic Habits

James Clear

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“Typeface is the clothes words wear. The better the tailoring, the sharper the message.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Element of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

2022 * 15

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“Your brain has two drivers: one is impulsive, the other is lazy. Guess who wins most of the time?”

Thinking Fast and Slow

stories & narratives

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“Creativity isn’t about having more ideas. It’s about making sense of the ones you already have.”

Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

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“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”

Autobiography Of a Yogi

Parahamahnsa Yogananda

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“Birnbaum and Luke both believed in the importance of—to borrow the phrase Jay Rubin uses in his book about Murakami—the “music of words.” But they didn’t always see or hear things the same way. They listened to different music, read different authors, and had lived in different parts of the world.”

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

David Karashima

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"We are what we eat, but more importantly, we are how we eat."

The Yoga Of Eating

Charles Eisenstein

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“The race isn’t about running. It’s about believing you can run that fast.”

⭐️ The Perfect Mile

Neal Bascomb

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“Civilization begins when you stop killing each other over your differences and start killing each other over resources.”

The Lessons Of History

Ariel Durant, Will Durant

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“Peace is not something that happens when you achieve your goals, but something that happens within you when you cease to seek.”

Siddharta

Hermann Hesse

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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”

Sapiens: A Graphic History. Vol 1 & 2

David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave, Yuval Noah Harari

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Nagabumi II: Buddha, Pedang, dan Penyamun Terbang

Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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A really different reading experience. Seno Gumira di buku ini bekerja benar-benar sangat keras untuk membuat pembaca bisa mendapatkan gambaran akurat tentang apa yang terjadi di Jawa pada abad ke 7-9. Penuh dengan citation, istilah jawa kuno, dan referensi prasasti dan penelitian yang membuat buku ini seperti fisi arkeologi dan fiksi.

Nagabumi I: Jurus Tanpa Bentuk Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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“To become great, you must first become comfortable being bad at something. Only then can you improve.”

Decoding Greatness

Ron Friedman

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“We all have a tendency to think we are smarter than we are. We need to be aware of that and counteract it.”

Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

Tren Griffin

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“Great leadership isn’t about charisma. It’s about creating a system that empowers others to succeed.”

⭐️ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Jim Collins

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“The real race begins when your legs start to hurt, not before.”

Advanced Marathoning

Pete Pfitzinger

2021 * 11

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“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”

What I'm Talking About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

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"The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo."

The Ride Of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

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Semua hal yang terjadi sekali, tidak akan terjadi lagi. Tapi semua hal yang terjadi dua kali, pasti akan terjadi untuk ketiga kalinya.

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

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Waktu dulu masih jadi Product Manager, buku ini sering saya jadikan pegangan, terutama ketika sedang membutuhkan decision making cepat untuk fitur produk, tapi di saat yang bersamaan gak banyak informasi yang bisa dijadikan sebagai pegangan. Mudah dipahami. Mudah diikuti.

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp

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Gak lagi commuting, gak harus punya kantor bagus (yang artinya budgetnya bisa dipindah untuk perk lain untuk karyawan), gak harus hire dari dalam Yogya, gak harus kerja dari satu tempat.

Remote ditulis oleh DHH dan Jason Friedman, yang sudah menjalankan WFA, jauh sebelum pandemk COVID dimulai, dan buku ini berguna sekali untuk perusahaan yang ingin mencoba untuk mengambil "leap of faith" dan menjalankan WFA secara penuh.

Remote: Office Not Required

David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried

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Seperti ratusan ribu mahasiswa lain di era 2000 an, saya mengidolakan dan mencoba meniru gaya menulis GM yang khas. Dari dia saya jadi paham bahwa semua yang ada di bawah matahari terhubung. Politik dan bahasa, filsafat dan teknologi, mitos dan puisi, semuanya bisa membantu untuk mengerti yang lain. Kalau spesialis itu overrated, kalau saya boleh mengikuti rabbit hole yang random, terasa sia-sia, tapi menarik.

In Other Words

Goenawan Mohamad

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"As a general rule, you have to accept that no matter where you work, you are not an employee—you are in a business with one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses. There are millions of others all over the world, picking up the pace, capable of doing the same work that you can do and perhaps more eager to do it. Now, you may be tempted to look around your workplace and point to your fellow workers as rivals, but they are not. They are outnumbered—a thousand to one, one hundred thousand to one, a million to one—by people who work for organizations that compete with your firm. So if you want to work and continue to work, you must continually dedicate yourself to retaining your individual competitive advantage."

⭐️ High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

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“The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple. Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars. To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over everyday, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.”

⭐️ Elevation

Stephen King

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44% karyawan bilang kalau mereka gak pernah dapet constructive feedback. Jangan mau ada di braket manajar itu. Terus memberikan feedback loop yang konstan, dan dorong tim untuk berkembang, kemudian "get out of the way"!

⭐️ Coaching Coversation

Brian Souza

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“Feedback is a gift. But it’s not always a pleasant one.”

⭐️ Ask a Manager

Alison Green

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“When we look to the future, we don’t just have to ask what we want to do. We also need to ask what we want to become.”

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Jim Collins

2020 * 13

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“It’s not about being the smartest person in the room. It’s about being the one who consistently sets the standard through actions.”

What You Do is Who You Are

Ben Horowitz

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“What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

The One Thing

Gary Keel

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“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.”

The Magic Of Thinking Big

David Schwartz

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“Build, measure, learn. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else”

⭐️ The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

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Don't Panic! Saya baru membacakan buku ini 42 tahun sejak buku ini pertama kali diterbitkan dan masih tertawa terpingkal-pingkal dengan humor dan komedi di dalamnya. Penuh dengan guyonan comic kering khas Inggris, Douglas Adams membawa pembacanya ke dalam petualangan alien, manusia bumi, dan peran tikus dalam menjawab pertanyaan paling penting dalam sejarah kosmos. Membaca buku ini mirip dengan Roller coaster komedi.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adam

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

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Wonderfully narrated and written. Kekuatan di Audiobook ini ada di skill narratornya – ceritanya sendiri walaupun engaging, tapi untuk ukuran novel detektif, cukup predictable.

⭐️ The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey

James Lecesne

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“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

Walter Isaacson

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“You can't control the events that happen to you, but you can control your interpretation of them. So why not choose the story that serves your life the best?”

I Can't Make This Up

Kevin Hart

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You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. The Distraction Economy wants nothing more than to take our minds off what we need to do today. Why? We call it paying attention for a reason!

Free To Focus

Michael Hyatt

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“When you grow up in a family where every action is questioned, it is easy to forget that there are things worth questioning.”

⭐️ Educated

Tara Westover

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Jujur saja. Gak banyak yang saya ingat dari buku ini. Ceritanya gak begitu berkesan, dan mungkin gak begitu praktikal. Sayang sekali karena Richard Sheridan dan Tom Peters, practically bekerja di bidang yang persis dengan apa yang sekarang saya jalani sebagai karir saya. Di perusahaan software.

Chief Joy Officer

Richard Sheridan, Tom Peters

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"Fresh out of the womb newborns look very different. As a matter of fact, your newborn may not bear any resemblance to you, your partner, or any known members of your species."

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Be Prepared - A Practical Handbook for New Dads

Jeannie Hayden, Garry Grenburg

2019 * 27

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“Sleep should be your superpower, not your afterthought.”

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

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Coming of the age book. Wally Roux adalah jenius cilik yang tidak pernah fit in dengan lingkungannya dan menemukan pelarian di memperbaiki lubang di kuantum fisik.

Wally Roux Quantum Mechanics

Nick Carr

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“Stop trying to be extraordinary. Embrace being average and do the things that make you truly happy.”

💩 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck

Mark Manson

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“The path to wealth is simpler than we think. Spend less than you earn, invest the difference, and wait.”

The Simple Path To Wealth

JL Collins

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“You don’t have to ‘do’ anything to be. Simply being is enough.”

💩 The Power Of Now

Eckhart Toller

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“It’s not motivation that drives change—it’s momentum, created by small, consistent steps. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

The Power Of Habit

Charles Duhigg

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“Eating less and exercising more is not the solution—it’s just a temporary fix to a deeper, metabolic issue. It’s not about how much you eat; it’s about when you eat and how often you eat.”

The Obesity Code

Dr Jason Fung

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“You don’t learn the most from the good days. You learn from the bad days—the ones that really test your strength.”

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz

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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker

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Novel audio tentang masa depan di mana orang akan kembali hidup jika dia mati bukan karena kondisi alami. Kombinasi unik antara fantasi dan cerita detektif ala film noir, membuat buku ini sangat menarik untuk didengarkan.

The Dispatcher

John Scalzi

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“Discipline equals freedom, but too much discipline can become rigidity and stifle creativity.”

The Dichotomy Of Leadership

Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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“The vast majority of fast-growing companies never take any venture capital. So where does the money come from to start and grow their companies? From a much more agreeable and hospitable source, their customers.”

The Customer Founded Business

John Mullins

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“When you ask people inside highly successful groups to describe their relationship with one another, they all tend to choose the same word: ‘family.’”

The Culture Code

Daniel Coyle

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Family bathrooms used by children need plenty of storage to combat clutter. Install large medicine cabinets with zones for each child. Use vanities with several drawers. Provide ample storage for a variety of towels and toiletries near the shower.

The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction

Kent Lester

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Own your morning. Elevate your life.

💩 The 5 AM Club

Robin Sharma

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Value profitability over tax savings. Stop distorting your net income because of improper owner compensation. Use market-based wages for everyone in the business, including shareholders. Pay back your investors before you share profits, and create reasonable financial expectations for your investors. Consider working in a limited capacity at a lower wage as you transition out of active management.

Simple Number, Straight Talk, Big Profits

Greg Crabtree

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“Design isn’t about making things look good, it’s about making them work well.”

Refactoring UI

Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger

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9 Kebohongan di tempat kerja. #1: Reputasi perusahaan sangat penting untuk karyawan. #2: Rencana terbaik yang menentukan kesuksesan perusahaan. #3: Perusahaan terbaik cascade gol. #4: The best people are well-rounded #5: People need feedback #6: People can reliably rate other people #7: People have potential #8: Work-life balance matters most #9: Leadership is a thing

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall

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and he never showed amazement and surprise, and was never in a hurry, and never put off doing a thing, nor was perplexed nor dejected,

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

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“Our brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in the decision-making process.”

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

David Eagleman

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“Marking a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.”

How To Read A Book

Mortimer J Adler & Charles Van Doren

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“Success is boring. Failure is where the good stories come from.”

Failure Is An Option

H Job Benjamin

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“You don’t win deals by being the best at selling. You win by being the best at creating value.”

Eat Their Lunch

Anthony Iannarino

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“Human beings are not wired to be constantly wired.”

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cal Newport

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“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

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“Good is the enemy of great.”

⭐️ Good To Great

Jim Collins

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“Life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the woods.”

⭐️ A Walk In The Woods

Bill Bryson

2018 * 7

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“Beginnings matter. A strong start can shape the trajectory of everything that follows. Midpoints can be a slump or a spark. It’s up to us to decide which one. Endings shape our memory of an experience. We remember the final moments more than the middle.

When - The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Daniel H Pink

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“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”

⭐️ The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

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“Sometimes, in order to remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be.”

The Book Of M

Peng Sheperd

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“Today top companies are looking for business-minded designers who are not just focused on visuals.”

Solving Product Design Exercies

Artiom Dashinsky

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“The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mysterious glue that enables millions of humans to cooperate effectively.”

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Hahari

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Be an imperfectionist. Perfectionists spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of the important things.

Principles

Ray Dalio

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Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages. Like a gale blowing between trees, those messages varied in strength as they reached him in fragments, stinging his ears.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

Haruki Murakami

2017 * 2

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Oh what a god send book for amateur dad. Jadi orang tua pemula artinya akan banyak hal yang kita tidak pahami tentang Dedek bayi, Buku ini sangat membantu saya, terutama untuk menjadi pihak yang lebih kalem bagi istri. Penuh dengan hal penting yang perlu dipahami tentang perkembangan bayi, apa yang akan mungkin terjadi, dan apa yang harus kita perhatikan dan persiapkan.

What to Expect the First Year

Heidi Murkoff

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“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R Covey

2016 * 7

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Buku yang memulai kecintaan saya terhadap genre Zombie. Konyol, cerdas, brilliant, glorious, jenius, dan juga timeless.

⭐️ The Zombie Survival Guide

Max Brooks

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“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, because good design fits our needs so well that the design is invisible.”

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A Norman

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“The challenge is not to make a checklist, but to make a checklist that works.”

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

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Ditulis oleh the famous Ken Watanabe (just kidding, this is not THAT Ken Watanabe), buku ini adalah pelajaran tentang bagaimana cara berpikir kritis untuk memecahkan masalah. Pemaparan yang ada di dalamnya sangat sederhana, hingga anak SD pun bisa memahami penjelasan yang ada di dalamnya.

Problem Solving 101 : Simple Book for Smart People

Ken Watanabe

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“The right organizational structure isn’t the one that looks good on paper, it’s the one that supports the flow of energy within the business.”

Orgnizational Physics

Lex Sisney

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“I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.”

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

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You can’t “manage someone.” Management is not what you do to someone; it’s what you provide for someone. As Jim Collins states in his book Good to Great, “The moment you feel like you have to manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.

How to Be a Great Boss

Gino Wickman, René Boer