my 2015
Make a summary of your 2015 from the three major aspects of work, study and life.
Work
project
Since the beginning of the year, people have been inquiring about the intention of doing projects together. First, I started small. In order to promote a project, I ran back and forth from my hometown. Although I failed to do so due to various reasons, it allowed me to see another way of life possibility. After that, he was a college classmate. From the beginning of his acquaintance, he has been imaginative, but now he has successfully raised funds and started his own Internet company. Although it deviates from expectations in the process of operation, under the premise that survival is the first purpose, it has been very impressive in the end, which can not help but make people see the feasibility of another way of life.
In fact, most of the time most people are living step by step. This may be a continuation of our Chinese traditional farming civilization, or it may be the inevitable result of a characteristic education method in recent decades. However, in the Internet era, communication technology has made it difficult for people to remain indifferent to the status quo despite knowing that there is a huge gap. Even if an individual has this ambition, it is difficult for the social communication environment composed of relatives and friends behind the individual. People are alone. After all, we're not North Korea, and we've had a similar experience.
Therefore, we all want to change and make breakthroughs in the gap that is already at hand, but where is the way out?
financial freedom
In 2011, because of an open source project, I had contact with a technical master who wrote a compiler at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At that time, he said that he had an annual salary of 500,000 yuan, and he had no worries about food and clothing, so he wanted to do something he wanted to do. It's a pity that I went to Ali later. At the time, I was thinking, when will I be able to reach this level. Now, five years later, I suddenly found that although the education and experience are not comparable to those of the tech giants, we still have the possibility to achieve financial freedom.
Take work as an example. You work eight hours a day. How long can you actually work efficiently? I felt like I was doing nothing, and I didn't expect that there would be year-end bonuses to get, which further contributed to a negative attitude and lower work efficiency. In fact, think about it, if you only work two or three hours a day to get your current salary, then if you can really work at full capacity for eight hours, in the long run, shouldn’t the return you get should double on the current basis? If you consider that you are working for the company, and the company must create a higher value than your salary before hiring you, then the value you can actually create should be three to four times the existing foundation! Think about it, if you quadrupled your salary now, what would that be?
Although there is no way to compare with the cattle in terms of education and experience, it is obvious that we can still compete with them in improving work efficiency. Most IT companies work overtime, which is just to get more returns by extending their working hours, but obviously, this is not the best choice. If you can use your working time to directly create value for yourself, then you can give yourself Bring lasting motivation.
Perhaps the first thing people think of when they say this is starting a business, but I feel that starting a business is too risky and heavyweight, and it is far from the safety and speed of seeking to be a freelancer.
U disk survival
When I first started paying attention to Luo Zhenyu's "Luo Ji Thinking" last year, there was an issue about "U disk survival". I thought what he said was very reasonable, but I just thought it was reasonable. I never had the opportunity to practice, so I also felt Not very deep. A few years of experience with my friends and college classmates enlightened me. It turns out that relying on a craft (technology) to be a freelancer is what it means to be a freelancer: not relying on a certain organization, "bring your own information, do not install a system, Plug in and unplug at any time and collaborate freely.”
The key here is to "bring your own information", that is, you have to have some kind of special value, so that you can "freely collaborate" with others. Just like my schoolmates and college classmates can find me precisely because I have the knowledge reserves and technical abilities they need.
However, in this process, I also truly experienced the importance of market personnel. If there is no market, the software developed is useless. So in fact, the so-called "free cooperation" requires that the market and technical personnel can work together, and everyone can create value for each other, so as to achieve mutual benefit. It's not that we feel that the R&D personnel have worked overtime and put in a lot of effort, and the reward should be owned by the technicians in percentage. If this is the case, then I am afraid that we will only understand when the clones are exhausted. In this era, having multiple jobs is definitely not a long-term solution.
A real freelancer may be like a screw, like a USB flash drive, no matter where it goes, as long as there is a unified interface, then I can play a role, and with the passage of time and the accumulation of experience, in the market segment, individuals The professional ability of the company will become stronger and stronger, and the standards will become more and more unified, thereby creating more convenient conditions for more people to collaborate. Today's big data industry is showing such a trend, and the demand for professional knowledge and technical capabilities in this market segment is becoming stronger and stronger. If in the Internet 2.0 era, various websites have contributed to the explosion of lightweight and enterprise-level framework developers, then in the Internet 3.0 era, meeting the individual needs of each user based on massive data is becoming a force for mobile Internet companies. point. We have the background and opportunities in this area, but there should be more practice in this area.
Outlook
In 2016, I hope to further improve work efficiency in terms of work, and work that is too inefficient is simply a waste of life. Secondly, I hope to practice more of my own ideas, think more, practice more, and accumulate more in big data.
Learn
"How to Read a Book"
This year, I read a lot of books on and off, including humanities and social sciences, history, mathematics, and computers. However, if the book is also divided into "Tao" and "Skill", then I have to mention this book solemnly - "If You Read a Book".
When I recommended "How to Read a Book" to college classmates who are already CEOs, he said something I think should be the best evaluation of it: "Just by looking at the title of the book, you can tell that it is an awesome book. ".
Yes, this book, first published in 1940, is indeed a pretty good book, of course, it depends on how you understand it, and there is a premise here, at least you have to love reading, even if you are not satisfied with this , but at the very least, you have to love to think. If you are not satisfied with these two points, then maybe this book is not suitable for you temporarily, or your fate with it has not yet arrived.
The reason why I think it's awesome is because I think this book is not only about the truth of reading, but more importantly: it provides you with a way of thinking, and this way of thinking can not only be used for read.
Read carefully
The first is to read carefully. Now, a book can easily have three or four hundred pages. It takes at least a week to read a book in the morning and evening. If there is no gain after reading it, then this week’s time is basically wasted, and In fact, you can use this time to do many other things. And now there are many books that are sensationalized, glorified, alarmist, and eye-catching. Here, I think Currency War is the book that best fits these characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary for us to screen the book before reading it, so as not to be delayed by some garbage. Likewise, the same is true of being a person and doing things.
Nowadays, various industries are changing with each passing day. I believe that everyone is more or less faced with some temptations, especially the successful experience of some others is always easy to make our hearts surge, but I have to say that everyone is different, experience Different, different personalities, the success of others may not be copied by you, and the failure of others may be your opportunity. Therefore, if you really want to do something, it is necessary to conduct appropriate investigation and analysis beforehand, otherwise, just with enthusiasm, you may say: Even if you fail, you will gain some lessons, but the time that has passed will never be the same again. Can't come back.
In fact, the same is true of making friends. No matter how close some alcoholic and meat friends are, if they do not help you in your future career, or even influence you with their negative attitude, then I think people like this should stay away from wonderful. Although there is a saying that many friends lead to many paths, a person's energy is limited after all, and it is impossible for a person to maintain close relationships with too many people. own choice.
intensive reading
The second is intensive reading. Although there are many classic books in various industries and categories, it is not easy to find a good book that suits you, because everyone's experience is different, and the time period suitable for accepting a certain book is also different, and only in a suitable book Time period, you will feel the value of a book. Therefore, once you find a good book that suits you, you need to read it intensively and repeatedly. Only in this way can you maximize its value. Likewise, the same is true of being a person and doing things.
With the accumulation of work experience, everyone will gradually become clear about what they are good at and the direction to be engaged in, so now we need to invest more energy in these things, not only for breadth, but also for depth. It's like the big data industry I'm currently engaged in. I think it's the direction I'll be engaged in in the future, and I have some understanding of related technologies, but how deep is it? Have you ever conducted a detailed analysis and reflection on one of the technical frameworks, business scenarios, and typical requirements? I think this is a shortcoming of mine. Similarly, everyone can follow this line of thought to see if they have achieved this in their own direction.
In terms of making friends, it is actually very difficult to meet someone who is really helpful to me. After changing so many companies, only a group of colleagues I met in the data team of the previous company let me know " With a new understanding of the word "colleagues", only those who are "same" in the same way can "work together" together for a long time. And their help to me is not only reflected in the work, maybe they are like this, or we are like-minded, but in the past ten years, only these colleagues have made me feel this way. Therefore, I will continue to strengthen communication with them, hoping that our past team can create more value for each other even if we are not in the same company.
Apply what you have learned
In the end, of course, apply what you have learned. I once made a difficult writing plan for myself, but in the process I found that it was very difficult to even write the beginning. Why? Later, when I read the book, I came to realize the ideas it mentioned. A book becomes a classic because behind it there is a very experienced author who organizes a book in a step-by-step manner to help others grow. That is, if you don't have a wealth of relevant experience, you won't be able to tell a story. Now we may be very casual to provide a bunch of advice to a graduate, but if we want to give advice to our peers, we will feel that everything is not easy, why? Because we all have similar experiences, we can't give advice to others beyond our abilities. And a good book is like an old man, a wise man, who uses his life experience to provide you with advice. Only by constantly practicing and reviewing it can we continuously deepen our understanding of it. It’s like being stressed about the importance of algorithms from the very beginning, but only when you want to design a recommendation system will you understand it; it’s like being asked about career planning in every interview, but only when you touch career development. The ceiling will only understand.
Thinking of when I was in middle school, each text had to be taught for several classes, and a comprehensive analysis was made from the background, motivation, and effects of the author's writing. Therefore, even now, we still have some problems with certain texts. The plot is still fresh in my memory. But now, let's see if we have reached one-tenth of the attitude of being a gentleman in the past? Regrettably, no. If we treat our friends with sincerity, and treat our work carefully and responsibly, I believe that we will inevitably feel down and hesitant for the time being, but there will be a day when we will succeed.
"How to Be Thoughtful"
The title of this book seems even more intimidating, but it is actually a blog collection, and the title of the book comes from one of the articles. If the author wasn't Ruan Yifeng, I probably wouldn't have read this kind of book that uses the title to bluff people. It's common to use the title of one of these articles as the title of a book, but it's the only one that feels appropriate to me. Ruan Yifeng's personal blog is very well-known among programmers because he has written a lot of articles to study some phenomena that people have paid attention to, but did not go to the bottom of the cause, that is, he has a spirit of getting to the bottom of things, and this kind of phenomenon. Spirit is what people today are widely lacking.
According to my previous impression, I thought there would be a lot of articles on technical analysis, but I didn't expect that there were a lot of thoughts on social and humanities. I have to be amazed: it is these things that many people regard as helpless and unchangeable. In his writing, he has analyzed the reasons and found solutions. From this, I found that these articles of his originally echoed the content of the article "How to Be Thoughtful", and it was because of this that it became the name of this book.
So how do you become thoughtful? How can you make yourself not just a money making machine? How can you make yourself not just a walking corpse doing things step by step? The answer given by the author is: understand enough background knowledge, think deeply for a long time, and continuously improve your logical analysis ability. From a certain level, this book and the one above are actually talking about the same thing, but their perspectives are different, but they both emphasize the role of thinking in essence, and we Chinese are probably the world's most popular Think about the people who spend the most money on how to make money.
Many of the phenomena in Chinese society mentioned in his blog post, in fact, we should conduct in-depth research on them to warn the world; he also mentioned many events in Chinese history, which we should have thoroughly reflected on to avoid repeating the same mistakes. , but at all levels of the country, there has been a general consensus that they have become untouchable red lines. Just like when I went home not long ago, I saw the portrait of a great man on the wall of my house, and I don’t know which year the painting was posted on the Spring Festival. To put up portraits of great figures in the New Year, I have to say that the breeding group on the Yalu River is not alone. Since I was a child, I heard my mother often say that when I was young, my grandfather was wearing a white paper hat and paraded through the streets because of the high proportion of landlords in the family. She and my second aunt were not allowed to go to school. Sometimes she even went to the market with her, and when she walked outside the house, she would say that this house stole a coat from my grandma. But even this experience did not prevent her from posting this great portrait. I tried to ask if I could tear it off and burn it, but my mother immediately changed her face and reprimanded me. When I kept listing the evil deeds of this portrait character, my mother just asked me one sentence: "Then can you change it?"
Maybe our generation can't change it, but I think maybe our thinking, our generation's thinking about the country, can make our next generation have a better life.
Outlook
In 2016, I hope that I can slow down my studies, as mentioned above: read carefully, intensively, apply what you have learned, re-read the books that you have read before and feel very good, and form notes, the most important thing is, not only To understand those knowledge and events, it is necessary to think about the background, process and impact of them.
Life
ride a bike
This year's New Year's Day sports watch arrived, and I went out to try it out on a bike. At that time, I almost wanted to post a goal of "cycling 3,000 kilometers a year" in the circle of friends. Fortunately, after weighing my own strength, I still held back. It was as if when I was still living in the basement, I was arguing that I wanted to ride the three rings, and I was still posting in the class group, but in the end it didn't happen. . I have always been lacking confidence in the face of relatively large goals, always thinking: rational, must be rational. It's even more obvious when it comes to riding. I read an online article saying that riding Miaofeng Mountain is the ultimate goal, but I have been dragging it back on the grounds that it is too difficult. I always think that I have not exercised enough, and the accumulated experience and physical fitness are not enough. Even if some colleagues say that Miaofeng Mountain he wants Go whenever you want with no preparation at all, and it didn't get me to the point of psychologically despising the goal. I was not moved by it, and I always planned to act according to my own plan, but in the end it was nothing. It was not until I saw the marathon plan of two college classmates that I realized that even a high goal can be achieved with a reasonable plan.
To be honest, because I often play football, I am very confident in my physical strength, but this confidence is not enough to support me daring to sign up for a marathon. As for the physical impressions of the two college classmates, they were still in college. It was quite shocking for me to know that they were going to sign up for a marathon. What I didn’t expect was that they all insisted on running down the North Marathon. It's a miracle for me! I never imagined that the preparatory activities of the two who insisted on the ten-kilometer run in Orson in the early stage really played such a big role. Relatively speaking, my current riding has become a ticket-playing activity. It can be seen that in the face of a higher goal, how important a reasonable plan is. If I set a specific time for riding Miaofeng Mountain like the North Horse, and if I can think of riding Tanzhe Temple as a preparatory activity for their Orson 10-kilometer run, then I should be able to do it. But the truth is: I didn't do it.
Shopping
A few years ago, Singles' Day became a shopping festival, and the word "chopping hands" became popular. Various jokes on the Internet have always just felt very funny. I didn't expect that I would be recruited this year.
First of all, it is because of a website. At first, I knew it because there are various shopping experts on it, and various experience of using it. So when I plan to buy something, I usually look at it and evaluate it first. Since the rise of Haitao, various foreign products with good quality and low price are quite tempting, basically 50% off the domestic price, but the cumbersome process and various problems are prohibitive. And this website has launched various overseas shopping strategies in a timely manner, as well as the experience stickers of various shopping experts. Exactly at this time, I saw a good question on Zhihu: What products have significantly improved quality of life and happiness after purchasing? After seeing the various tempting answers below, I finally couldn't help but start the journey of buying hands in overseas shopping.
Because of the promotions promoted by various merchants on Double Eleven, it is natural to check the shopping guide on this website, and then I received a recommendation about bedding before Double Eleven, and the reason for the editor's adjustment is also very good: every day Human sleep time is about seven or eight hours. It is calculated that one-third of one's life is spent in bed, so it is necessary to choose some good products for yourself on the bedding. Then there are the product introductions of various international five-star hotel direct suppliers, and the comments of netizens on some products are also provided: sleeping on it is like sleeping in a cloud. . . . . . The copywriting is so tempting that I couldn't help but chop it up again. Down mattresses, duvets and down pillows cost nearly 5,000 yuan. . . . . .
When I got home, I told my wife. My wife said that I was crazy. As the saying goes, bystanders are obsessed with the authorities. After a month, I calmed down. Fortunately, the mattress that cost nearly 2,000 yuan at the time was too much because there were too many mottled feathers in it. It was returned, and the duvet core was returned because it was too hot. Otherwise, I would have been fooled by this toss.
From this, I began to realize that for a company that needs to make profits to survive, providing value to users is one aspect, but fooling users to create value for it must also be one of its business purposes. It is really hard to say how much the commission is for a shopping guide website like this to jump to the e-commerce shopping page through its link. But one thing I think should be certain, that is the same jump link, its conversion rate is definitely higher than the browser's start page. It is an invisible advertisement, even more advanced than all kinds of childcare, because it conveys a concept to you. When you believe in its theory, shopping becomes a matter of course, and, You will continue to shop, because consumption has become a concept of yours.
I have seen various jokes about life and consumption by American old ladies and Chinese old ladies on the Internet before, encouraging consumption, zero savings, and stimulating domestic demand. There are various reasons for consumerism. For a website, it combines high-end brands with high taste to promote a consumer culture, and people who recognize this culture become its loyal users; for a country, it can encourage people to consume through various policies , thereby stimulating domestic demand and making it a lever for economic regulation. It can be seen that for consumption, high-end methods are all propaganda of a concept. Compared with advertising, it is really not knowing how many times more clever.
So I thought of another thing. On New Year's Day in 2016, Luo Zhenyu gave a "Friends of Time 2015" New Year's Eve speech at the Water Cube. The next day, various public accounts collectively commented on this speech. Paying attention to this matter, I didn't expect that Fatty Luo, who I always thought was just using the media to recommend books to everyone, turned out to be so difficult.
I want to register a forwarding company during overseas shopping, but it requires an invitation code to register. Some websites send an invitation code with 500 points, so as long as you register an account to post or comment to earn enough points, you can't sign in on the APP every day. You can also save enough. But Luo Fat played a lot more hard. Joining the membership, 20 years of VIP packages, and various unreasonable gameplays, he gained a large number of loyal fans in the shortest time. Why? I think it should be the concept of "kind, interesting, and predictable" that he keeps preaching in various talk shows. This person recognizes it so much that when he proposes various novel (unreasonable) ways of playing, everyone also recognizes this way of playing, so that the 20-year coupons for the last New Year's Eve speech can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan. .
Everyone knows about Fatty Luo, and I don't comment too much on his behavior. The main thing is to review the process of building a personal brand of "Luo Ji Thinking". I think it is a good idea for personal career planning. of reference. It's as if some people go to university by passing the college entrance examination, and one test paper is guaranteed for life, while some people get recommended by participating in various competitions. In fact, it has already explained the problem very well, because you have not formed your own brand in this industry, so you can only let the other party know about you in the most traditional way. If you also have a medal in a competition, or the website has tens of millions of visits per issue, then you can skip this exam, and you can directly pass the exam by relying on your own brand effect.
Therefore, if you can use consumption concepts to change a person's concept like a shopping guide website, if you can attract users with "kind, interesting, and interesting" content like Luo Zhenyu, if you can be like a winner of a competition medal Just like proving our ability outside the entrance examination room, then we can actually no longer worry about career issues. And the means of realization, whether it is a personal blog or a personal WeChat public account, the technology and platform are very mature and convenient, the difficulty mainly lies in whether one can insist on translating valuable thoughts into words and disseminate them, and finally form oneself personal brand.
Outlook
In 2016, in terms of life, I hope that I can take action and ride, challenge Miaofeng Mountain during the Dragon Boat Festival, and challenge the 107 National Road during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As for personal branding, I hope I can manage my blog and WeChat public account well, play less games, think more, and record more.
Summarize
2015 has passed, the smog is still very serious, and there are still a lot of news with beginnings and ends. Although individuals can work very hard, if the whole society gives people a sense of insecurity, then this will become a coincidence. matter. However, we should still feel fortunate that although there are not many books we have read seriously in the past year, there are still many people who linger on the Internet cafes with constantly upgraded hardware and peripherals; although it is still a delusion to achieve financial freedom, it is still Many state-owned enterprises that have been relying on subsidies until now will face the problem of being laid off again. We should be more fortunate that our relatives and friends are not on the sunken ship in the Yangtze River, so we don't have to face those useless candles; our relatives and friends are not in the nearby community where Tianjin exploded, so we don't need to pay attention What kind of bullshit "the most handsome retrograde in the world"; we don't have enough economic strength to respond to the news broadcast's stock speculation, so we can laugh at the various stock jokes that follow instead of really crying.
It is precisely because we are just people, so for the Olympic Grand Slam with no history (shang) before (cai), we can only raise our hands and cheer; The military parade made me even more scared to go out and ride a bicycle for a day. It's just that by the end of the year, disasters with Chinese characteristics like the Shenzhen debris flow make me a little worried. In such a country, you can choose not to participate in some things, but there are more things that you have to participate in. Especially after reading the book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", and looking at the news that is always ranked first after opening the NetEase News client from a different perspective, I can't help but worry about myself and the future of this country. .
Hopefully, 2016 will be even better.
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