If you are good in office, you will learn, and if you study well, you will be in office - Zi Xia ("The Analects of Confucius: Zi Zhang")

" 学而优则仕" is widely circulated, but may be misrepresented. If the common understanding "you can become an official if you study well" can be explained, then the analogy of its previous sentence as "the official will come to study when you have done a good job" seems inexplicable.

Zixia's two sentences should be understood as " practice and spare energy should be done in learning, and learning and spare energy should be practiced ". This still seems instructive today, especially for the computer software industry (hereinafter referred to as the software industry). There are at least two reasons:

  1. The knowledge of the software industry is changing rapidly, " 终生学习" is just a slogan for many people in other industries, but it is a very realistic situation for practitioners in the software industry.
  2. There is no doubt about the importance of practice. The “ ” in the Analects 学而时习之means to practice often after lectures (don’t say “Xi” means “review”), while the practice cost in the software industry is low, and it is easy to practice while learning.

I think this is not enough. In addition to "learning" and "research", "doing knowledge" should also include "sharing". " Sharing " is very important here. The Internet makes it easy for practitioners in this industry to share. So the relationship between "learning" and "official" becomes: after adding the link of sharing:

  • Learning and research have certain results should be applied to practice.
  • In the spare time of practice, come to study and research.
  • If you have a certain accumulation in practice, you can share it.

I have been an Internet R&D practitioner for many years , and I hope to use this as a sharing platform for personal practice accumulation in the future. The sharing content includes but is not limited to programming and architecture technology, technical management, training skills and even a little bit of experience, I hope it will be useful to everyone.

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