Episodes

In addition to science and philosophy, novels are the third way to observe and understand the world. While science and philosophy are mainly concerned with certainties in our world and aim to solve specific problems, novels e...

Liar’s Poker is a classic masterpiece describing the business culture of Wall Street in the 1980s. Based on his own personal experience, the author vividly depicts a series of typical scenes in Wall Street financial circles, ...

This book covers all the classical investment practices any stakeholder needs to know. It has been known by many as the “Stock Market Investing Bible” since it was first published in 1949. This book analyzes the difference be...

Why does no server acknowledge your presence when you walk into an English pub? Why are house numbers in England always hidden out of sight? How come the Englishmen are the courtliest gentlemen in the world and the most notor...

“Listen to your heart and start writing.” This was the advice that Anne Lamott told her students on the first day of a writing workshop. Drawing on her own writing experiences, Lamott aptly demonstrates her methods for writin...

This book systematically discusses the theory of cultural neurosis and strongly refutes Freud's biological determinism. It is a thorough critique and revision of traditional psychoanalysis as well as one of Horney's most repr...

This book mainly tells the story of how several ordinary Wall Street workers found out the secret of the bond market, realized the crisis hidden under the "subprime" bubble, and got rich by shorting the market. The book also ...

Critics, investors, and senior managers need to make predictions about the future of their industry. The key to forecasting is to identify the signals of change, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of competitors, and assess...

You probably are familiar with company performance. But what affects performance? Is it the corporate culture, customers, values, or managers? If what affects performance is a factor that is known for certain, then why is our...

Why can’t the poor escape poverty? Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee went deep into 18 impoverished countries and regions on five continents to explore the causes of poverty and possible solutions. They examined the daily ...

Albert Einstein once said, “Interest is the best teacher.” However, it has become increasingly common for us to see children who are not interested in school or even hate school. This is a a source of frustration for teachers...

Deliberately or not, people tend to undervalue the role of playwrights compared to directors, actors, and actresses. We all know that a playwright writes plays, but few have explored the core competencies of playwrights. Acco...

How to achieve an investment performance that is better than the market average? It requires different ways of thinking. In his investment memos written over the years, Howard Marks proposed "second-level thinking ". You mus...

Babylon, one of the four ancient civilizations, was a wealthy nation with countless gold and jewels but with limited natural resources. Its brilliance was entirely the result of human wisdom. The Richest Man in Babylon introd...

Google’s success relies on excellent talent and teams. So how does Google get the most outstanding talent in the world to work for it? And how does it train and keep talent and explore human creativity to the maximum? This bo...

Who makes money better than anyone else in the world? Many people would say it’s Warren Edward Buffet. Investors around the world are dying to know the secret of Buffett’s success. What made him so wealthy? What does his expe...

Every entrepreneur is eager to know what kind of startup can gain a foothold in the business world, and understand how to make innovative products, face competition, assemble teams, sell products and services, and ensure a co...

Do you run every day? Do you feel pain when you run? In fact, humans are born to run with extremely springy legs and dense sweat glands, which allow us to run and cool off simultaneously. The greatest distance runners on eart...

Do schoolteachers cheat to meet high-stakes testing standards? Is sumo wrestling a corrupt sport? What caused crime rates in the United States to plunge in the 1990s? When you encounter these "strange" questions in this book,...

When it comes to being influential, the first thing that comes to mind is altering the attitudes and decisions of our audience through some sort of effort or skillful communication and negotiation. However, this book, “ Pre-s...

Modern marketing is essentially a war. In this war, the enemy is the competitor, and the customer is the target. If you want to defeat your competitors and occupy your targets, serving customers is just not enough. You must a...

As one of the classic works of contemporary linguistics, this book marks the beginning of the study on cognitive linguistic metaphor systems. The book is both academic and popular. It shows that metaphor is both a vocabulary ...

Homo sapiens were once an inconspicuous group in the corner of Africa. How did they eventually make it to the top of the biological chain and take over the planet? Where did money and religions originate from? Why did the emp...

A young hedge fund manager won the auction for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, with a bid of $650,100. The meal with Buffett turned out to be the most valuable lesson in his life. Through constant refl...