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Thursday, 29 December 2016

book log: 2016

2016
nonfiction
elon musk bio, ashlee vance

if this is a man, primo levi 
the truce, primo levi

how to create a mind, kurzweil

outliers, gladwell
blink, gladwell
tipping point, gladwell
david and goliath, gladwell 


monkey business, rolfe and troobe
straight to hell, john lefevre

fiction
invisible monsters, chuck palahniuk 
haunted, palahniuk

we, zamyatin yevgeni
fahrenheit 451, bradbury
ready player one, ernest kline
the windup girl, paolo bacigalupi


I am no one you know, joyce carol oates
oscar et la dame rose, eric-emmanuel schmitt 
women, bukowski 

in process 
physics of the future, kaku

for 2017 (?)
do androids dream of electric sheep , p. k. dick
nothing is true and everything is possible, pomerantsev
the captive mind, milosz
the omnivores dilemma 
     
at the existentialist cafe
josefine mutzenbacher
ralph waldo emerson

to kill a mockingbird
the rebel, camus
moonwalking with einstein, 

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year in review: 2016





year of big changes: everything seems to move so slow until you look back and realize everything's different


  • started the year on 01/01 in shanghai, beijing two months and a half, visited xian, home in antwerp for six months, algarve in portugal for a week and ended the year again in shanghai (four months) where I also visited suzhou and beijing again
  • got my bachelor degree in social economics, economics and sociology (sociaal-economische wetenschappen) 
  • read a ton of books 
  • went from very very basic to great at basic conversation in french. estimate learned about 800 words (writing) in chinese. props to german for effort 
  • finished a marketing internship in beijing and a logistics internship in Antwerp 
  • got a full scholarship to go do my masters in shanghai, became financially independent from my parents
  • started attending Toastmasters to work on public speaking. gained confidence talking in front of people 
  • volunteered at a startup conference 



A lot changed. Met people, got a lot of opportunities. I'm lucky and I learned a lot, pushed myself, 
got out of my comfort zone. looking forward to more of that in 2017.



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