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Reading Paths

Sequence matters more than the list.

A list tells you what to read. A path tells you what to read first. Each of these five paths is ordered by how understanding actually accumulates.

AI for Beginners

AI 入门

From the foundations of computing to the question of general intelligence.

  1. 01 Understand Computing The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  2. 02 Understand Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  3. 03 Understand Machine Learning Deep Learning
  4. 04 Understand Reinforcement Learning and Agents Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
  5. 05 Understand LLMs and Alignment The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
  6. 06 Understand AGI and the Human Future Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Investing from First Principles

投资入门：从第一性原理出发

Understand the market, build principles, then manage yourself.

  1. 01 Understand the Market A Random Walk Down Wall Street
  2. 02 Establish Principles The Intelligent Investor
  3. 03 Learn Valuation Security Analysis
  4. 04 Find Quality and Growth Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
  5. 05 Understand Risk and Uncertainty The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  6. 06 Manage Your Own Behavior The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

Understanding World History

理解世界历史

From geographic conditions to the present order.

  1. 01 The Origins of Civilization Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  2. 02 The Classical World History of the Peloponnesian War
  3. 03 The Rise and Fall of Empires The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  4. 04 The Making of the Modern World The Guns of August
  5. 05 The Postwar Order Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
  6. 06 The Present Order The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Economics Essentials

经济学入门

From division of labor to institutions and money.

  1. 01 Markets and Division of Labor An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
  2. 02 Institutions and Prosperity Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
  3. 03 Money and Crisis This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
  4. 04 Macroeconomics and Policy The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
  5. 05 Behavior and Real Decisions Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
  6. 06 The History of Economic Thought The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Thinking Better

认知升级

Reduce judgment error and gain from uncertainty.

  1. 01 Two Systems of Mind Thinking, Fast and Slow
  2. 02 Identify Noise and Bias Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
  3. 03 Understand Probability and Luck Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  4. 04 Improve Forecasting Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
  5. 05 Think in Systems Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  6. 06 Gain from Uncertainty Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder