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The Ultralearning Blueprint for Skill Mastery
Reading club: Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
Close your mental background tabs
Reading club: The Art of Focus by Dan Koe
Why your brain sabotages your willpower
Reading club: The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
Turning Students Into Tools of the State
Reading club: Governance and Education: From “Subjects of the Nation” to Citizens by Xu Ben
Hidden Laws and the Logic of Blood Rewards
Reading club: Unwritten Rules: The Real Game in Chinese History, The Law of Blood Reward: A Survival Game in Chinese History, and I Want to Reinterpret History: Interviews with Wu Si by Wu Si
Turning Students Into Tools of the State
Reading club: Governance and Education: From “Subjects of the Nation” to Citizens by Xu Ben
The Rise and Fall of the EAST
Reading club: The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline by Yasheng Huang
The Operating System of Rural China
Reading club: Rural China by Xiaotong Fei
Why the Individual Doesn't Exist in China
Reading club: Deep Structures of Chinese Culture by Longji Sun
The Structure of Misogyny
Reading club: Disgust against Women by Chizuko Ueno
The Existential Dialectic of Woman and the Other
Reading club: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Japan's Spiritual Road to War: 1931–1945
Reading club: An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan: 1931-1945 by Shunsuke Tsurumi
Japan's Democratic Collapse: Taisho Era Failure
Reading club: Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime by Harukata Takenaka
Industrial Systems Beat Agrarian Wealth
Reading club: Why are Chinese people hardworking but not wealthy by Zhiwu Chen
From Punishing the Body to Controlling the Soul
Reading club: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
The Five Rules of Dictator Survival
Reading club: The Dictator's Handbook by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Institutional Genes
Reading club: Institutional Genes by Chenggang Xu
Arendt on Totalitarianism and Antisemitism's Origins
Reading club: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago's Moral Power
Reading club: The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Rise of The Sentinel State
Reading club: The Sentinel State by Minxin Pei
The Psychology of Money and Behavior
Reading club: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
The 12 Rules for Life Distilled
Reading club: The 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
