New habits I like: blogging; Thai boxing; swimming
Travel to over 20 cities. The more memorable ones are places where I get to know new people, learn/try something new, or catch-up with existing friends.
Highlights: property tour in Chengdu, Chongqing, and Sanya; business trip in Columbo, Mumbai, and Delhi; vacation in Rome and Florence; backpacking in Kunming, Lijiang, and Dali; guy trip to macau; catching up with friends in Singapore, Shanghai, and London; attending my best friend’s wedding in Maldives.
Reflect more on books I read. My favorites (in no particular order):
- The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion (half way through)
- Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
- Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
- Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- How China Became Capitalist
- The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health
- Conversations with David Foster Wallace
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means so Much
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Other activities I enjoy: windsurfing, squid fishing, watch live soccer and rugby games (my takeaway: trying thing for the first time is often enjoyable, especially activities that involve learning new skills or something about yourself); hiking; snorkeling; basketball; coming up with names
Relationship goes well. Traveling to another city just to catch up with good friends is definitely worth it; steady and peaceful family life with plenty of home cooked food and a nice Christmas dinner.
Finance also goes well. I like Jacob’s Early Retirement Extreme philosophy. Todd’s How Much Money Do I Need to Retire? is a good short guide on retirement planning.
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