Mia Junghae Rong

What is the common theme about these three? Elon musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson. They all are successful entrepreneurs, and, more importantly, they are dreamers.  They all are dreamers and founded a company, on top of their other companies, with a goal of sending people to space. Whether you are a dreamer like Elon Musk or Star trek/Star Wars fans as a child, if you want to see a glimpse of what lies ahead of you, Michio Kaku's the future of humanity will be a book for you.  In this book, the author walks you through from humans' efforts for leaving the earth, all the way to theoretical scenarios into immortality and advanced civilization, and the end of universe. This book to me was one of the most difficult books to digest, and therefore made me really proud to finish reading. I must admit my knowledge about space was very limited. I don't remember being interested in physics outside of school curriculum. I remember picking up String Theory book in college,

The Upstarts gives you a glimpse of what it feels like being a startup like Uber and Airbnb. Best seller author, Brad Stone, artfully juxtaposed the two upstarts, narrating phases of the company growth: from a burgeoning start-up to a company, facing regulation as well as fierce competition in both domestic and international. Both are fearless and resilient. As a person who started living in the Silicon Valley in the year 2008, this book made me look back my own life journey with adopting new technology as a consumer. Hope this does the same to you.   Regulation - I think the greatest achievement of both Uber and Airbnb is that they executed despite a mountain of obstacles. Many people came up with the similar idea, but not all of them fought head-to-head the regulation and existing industry's objection like these two. It is well worth to note that both founders shared the similar philosophy in how to navigate this.  Uber had this 'Travis's Law.' Basica