2-8 What is the law?
Relatively easy to think of the 80% of the wealth on the planet in the hands of 20% of people. From another perspective to interpret the 2-8 rule is: most things, you only need to spend 20% of energy will be able to do 80 minutes, and if you want to break to 90 points, you need to spend at least 80% of the energy.
Think we learn in school, as long as you do not wander carefully in class lectures, serious homework, the other time to play, to test a 80 points is not a problem, however, if you want to test 90 points, but it takes a lot of time to learn, do question the results do not necessarily able to test 90 points. Some students learn obvious problems, such as mathematics can easily test 90 points, while English only test to 60 points, but there may be trying to play to their strengths, there may be haunted by fear, leading to his strategy is: continue efforts to improve math and even out to 95-98, it took very little effort to improve their English. If he only kept mathematics 90 points, then come up with 20% of the effort will be to improve their English to 80 points, then the result would be like this:
60 = 95 + 90 + 80 = 155 and 170
So, unless you have a special talent in one area, and determined it as the cause of your life, then you must stick to it, such as your design to be a writer, programmer or you aspired to be a lifetime, and to become a good architect, no matter how difficult you have to keep going. Otherwise, if you are like me, this road flattening out in the programmer, want to be able to own up went to study architecture degree do not know how much time, how many brain cells die, how many hairs out, even if the last reach, and not be able to create much value, so if we can adjust our strategy?
You spend 80% of the energy will improve your coding ability to 90 points, I spend 20% of the energy to keep coding capability is maintained at 80 points, spend 20% of the energy will enhance communication skills to 80 minutes, spend 20% of the energy presentation skills will increase to 80 minutes, spend 20% of the energy will increase sideline thinking to 80 points, the same 80% of energy:
90 min and 320 min.
Thus, even if we really want to change jobs because of their age or the sideline becomes the primary industry will not have to rush. You might think that as long as the programmer can write code that is enough, others may have no ability. In fact, most people engaged in the industry does not require you how refined, and more specifically, the key is you want to be able to say, high emotional intelligence can communicate with others, in most companies, not honest, diligent on You will be able to get the leadership of love, leading most of the benefits for those who cry, will trouble the employees, because these employees is not good management, and honest employees to a large chicken leg and say a few words, then flicker easy to get up. So, as a programmer is not necessarily the coding capability will certainly have a good treatment, communication skills are also important, my first company, a colleague real skill is not much, thanks to a mouth became a leader around the Reds, stunned at the time less than two years from graduating students mixed on the department manager.
With the company's entry batch after batch 93-- 90 after 97 years of older employees programmer living space getting smaller and smaller, than after these 90, we are less and less competitive, after all, the age, the family put in that , coupled with an endless stream of new technology, older programmers energy is limited, these learning as fast as their little meat. Take my own example to, where I frequently updated version of Internet companies, but each upgrade version at the earliest point in the morning 3-4, basically all night, our group leader after a 90, overnight at least a month 2-4 times, and I, I will suffer less than once a night, and take a few days to adjust the state, so every time I would reject all night for various reasons, and this is probably the going gets tough in the eyes of the leadership, responsibility the heart is not strong enough motivation performance.
I had always thought that the architect made it done until later experienced a interview ...
It is a foreign company, headquartered in Canada, the effect was very good interview, the interviewer asked what the final plan the next few years of my life, I answered him: after three years to achieve the level architect. The interviewer looked at me and said: now people have been thorough study architecture, and is basically a distributed cloud plus the set, you do not need to study what the new architecture, architect and demand is not large, companies generally do not need to architect level programmers, architects need companies generally will require one or two architects enough. After hearing his words, I am a little lost, although I do not know whether he was right, but at least at the time I think it is justified.
Later, although foreign companies that gave me a good salary, but because of management positions somewhat, so I refused. Soon after, the interviewer, then who in my new company verified. The new company more than one hundred developers, architects, real sense of almost four, start a new project every time when the transplant is on the architecture of the original system.
Ma said his favorite child is assigned to children between the test scores of 90 points at 85, if you can test if the efforts of 90 points or more, would be quite good, if you are very, very hard in order to test more than 95 points, that there is no need to waste time, it is better to come up with time to do something else, to learn other knowledge.
Of course, the eyes of the beholder, the wise see wisdom, everyone has their own opinion, if you have good ideas, we can explore together raised.