Participation
in Chinese reading challenge, August 2025



49 minutes
0.82h

Up to page 403

82 minutes
1.37h

Read about Neuralink. Maybe a few decades from now, Chinese learning is done via brain implant? Will people still read books then? Page 392/590

72 minutes
1.2h

Up to page 367

62 minutes
1.03h

Getting there, page 350/590

72 minutes
1.2h

The second half of a book always feels like walking downhill. Page 335/590

56 minutes
0.93h

Read about the beginnings of Starship, page 318/590

59 minutes
0.98h

Designing Cybertruck, building the Tesla factory in Shanghai. Page 303

97 minutes
1.62h

Up to page 289

加油!

60 minutes
1.0h

Two long chapters (haven't finished them yet) about the efforts of getting Model 3 into mass production. Very impressive to read! Page 265/590

28 minutes
0.47h

Up to page 253

57 minutes
0.95h

More reading

119 minutes
1.98h

Model S appeared, Falcon 9 booster first landing in 2015, founding of OpenAI. Page 231/590

31 minutes
0.52h

Page 200, a milestone

79 minutes
1.32h

SpaceX succeeded with its fourth launch of Falcon 1, Tesla finally got on the right track and started designing the Model S. All during 2008/09. Now on page 191/590

43 minutes
0.72h

More reading, page 171/590

72 minutes
1.2h

Read about the first two launch attempts of SpaceX and the difficulties of Tesla around 2008, page 157/590

51 minutes
0.85h

More about Tesla, page 139/590

54 minutes
0.9h

Read about the beginnings of Tesla, page 127/590

97 minutes
1.62h

Learnt about the beginnings of SpaceX until around 2004, page 115/590

58 minutes
0.97h

Read about Musk's year after Paypal and his first ideas about going to Mars, page 88/590

54 minutes
0.9h

I've started reading the Chinese translation of an Elon Musk biography. My hope is I can finish the book by the end of the month, which is a challenge but seems possible. This morning, I read about his time with Paypal around 2000, and I'm now on page 75/590




Challenge time progress:60%
Goal progress:75.2%
Score22.55
Rank1st
Hours reported22.55
Goal30h