My readings (July/August)

Ok it is time to update my readings and conclude some of the readings that I have done. I realise I have a lot of distractions aka other interesting reads along the way so I eventually lose focus on the books that I am supposed to complete. Let’s take a quick look at the titles:

Completed books from last post:
1) $100 startup by Chris Guilleebeau
2) 想念，却不想见的人 by 肆一
3) One of the Wanwan comic

Other completed books that distracted me:
4) 海底捞，你学不会

This is a book about HDL, how it originated and why is it so popular. In the book, it mentioned about the how the firm recruit, retain talent and why their competitors rate them as 变态服务 in China. I find some of the concepts and theory related to service standards quite interesting. Some stories about how staff was treated can be quite touching. At some point of time, I really respect the founder of HDL.
But after reading the book, I immediately went to test the service in IMM. Well, not all service crew were good, especially my standards for service has become way too high. I almost went in with the 踢馆 attitude, so don’t quote me.

5) Act like a lady, think like a man

I completed this in lightning speed because it is too simple to read. Haha. I stumbled upon it while looking for another book called The mathematics of Love (shared below). Simple theories which allow quick understanding for guys. It teaches how you can identify good guy and find out who is the keeper. Well, read for some knowledge is good. This book can be found in the library.

6) The Mathematics of Love

I got to know this book from an article that I read from Facebook. It was about a theory on how been a proactive person can get you much higher desired results by calculating your probabilities. Read the article here. But the book got me bored quickly with all the dead statistics and mathematics logic. The fonts are also much smaller than those that I will read. So, I skimmed through and return it. Yes, available in library too.

I have not been into much readings on work-relatd topics. So will need to get back to reading very soon.

On-going reads from last post:
1) 寂寞太近而你太远
2) 中国历史穿越指南
I stopped to take a break on both of them. I will complete it!

3) Web analytics 2.0

This is an ebook which I got quite some time back. Stuck on the 2nd chapter and mind you, this book is like a textbook! I wonder how long I will take to complete this.

I also got myself a new book from the library as my morning read. Shall see if is a good book to mention. I will also be focusing on those books which I have not start since the last update within the next two months.