This book inspired me a lot. When we witness the rapid process in our modern world, I believe “patience” is crucial to shape our personality and eventually determine our career and life decisions. Life is long enough, and we do get better along with ourselves years by years.

When we have a mindset to zoom out a bit, there is no marathon or race in a lifetime period. You only play the only your referee of yourself. Please treat yourself well.

  • 21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges, Charles Handy

Instead of putting very much effort on his profession in management, Charles Handy mostly highlights “work, passion, and home life” through the book.

Quote “When we meet, I’d like to ask you about your hopes of your own story– how you see yourself in 15 years, doing what and living where with whom perhaps.”

Burn Lin is the former SVP of TSMC, the first person proposing “immersion lithography” for the semiconductor industry.

I used to notice his story during my undergrad in Taiwan. Burn’s story is interesting considering the historical background at that moment, where he and his family grow in a post-WWII period in Vietnam and gradually finished his bachelor study in Taipei and moved to the US for his Ph.D.

When I worked in TSMC in 2017, I often witness several stories like Burn - worked almost entire life in IBM and went ahead for a startup but failed - and open their second door in TSMC.