Gunhee Song

Writing about the things I am interested in, currently studying Materials Science at University of Waterloo

Bookshelf

MUST READ

  • From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  • Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
  • Principles by Ray Dalio
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Nausicaa Valley of the Wind
  • Leadership - Section: De Gaulle, Nixon, Lee Kuan Yew, Adenauer, Conclusion. by Henry Kissinger

Read

  • No longer human by Osamu Dazai, 1948
  • Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
  • Build by Tony Fadell
  • Just Deserts
  • Paper Towns by John Green
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Blame!
  • The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin

Unfinished

  • 20th century boys by
  • How the world works by Noam Chomsky
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Unread

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The art of doing science and engineering by Richard Hamming
  • Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apples Greatest Products by Leander Kahney
  • The Untethered Soul by Michael Alan Singer
  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
  • 상관없는 거 아닌가? by 장기하
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • As Little Design as Possible
  • Demian by Hermann Hesse
  • Petite Philosophie de la Mer
  • The Design of Things
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
  • The Pluri Society
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  • Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
  • Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher
  • Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
  • Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  • Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw
  • The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
  • How to be Free by Epictetus
  • The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
  • Kingdom
  • One Piece
  • The Tyranny of Merit: Whats Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel
  • 당신을 초대한 삶에 충실하라 by 김용
  • The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Writings

December 31, 2099

On change (1)

January 1, 2099

Interview with parents (interview)

January 1, 2029

Choosing where to live (1 in progress...)

August 31, 2025

substack sundays (3)

August 23, 2025

Bucket List (-)

August 21, 2025

in search of soul food - waterloo (-)

August 17, 2025

벌거벗은 겨울 (1)

July 13, 2025

solitudial interlude (3)

July 2, 2025

Consider longboarding (2)

June 28, 2025

Apple Inter(n)view, and on the decisions we make (3)

June 24, 2025

On kindness (2)

May 27, 2025

3D Printing Technology - Formlabs (2)

April 28, 2025

Blue Giant (3)

February 3, 2025

Hazy mornings (3)

December 28, 2024

AKIRA (3)

December 9, 2024

Vienna (3)

December 3, 2024

Wanderer (1)

December 2, 2024

Pandora's Waltz (1)

December 31, 1999

On the act of consumption and creation (essay in progress...)

December 28, 1999

Why we should read and write (writing...)

January 1, 1999

On attention (planning...)

January 1, 1999

Chasing novelty (planning...)