Hacker and painter Reading Notes

Hacker and painter Reading Notes

A group of children are bullying you, not because you have done something wrong, but because they need to find something to do together. They don't really hate you, they only need a common goal;
Drug use is based on the same principle;
Geeks use drugs to build social ties between them;
Because drugs are illegal, using them together creates a sense of mutual rebellion;

Relationship between old employees and new employees

If there is a real external capability test, it will not be so painful to stay at the bottom of the level relationship;
New players in the team will not hate the old players and hope they can do the same thing one day, so they are glad to have the opportunity to ask the old players. The old players also have a sense of honor to pass the band;
Most importantly, the status of old players is obtained through their own status, rather than by crowding out others;

Conservation of pay and return

You can think of entrepreneurship as a compression process, and all your work years will be compressed into just a few years;
You no longer work at a low intensity for 40 years, but work at a very high intensity for 4 years. In the high technology field, this kind of work intensity brings a great return, the higher the work efficiency, the higher the extra return;
Conservation Law: If you want to earn $100, you will have to endure the pain compared to $100;

Money is not equal to wealth

Wealth is the most basic thing. What we need is wealth. Food, clothing, cars, and traveling are all wealth;
Big Cake paradox: Many people think that the total wealth in the world is fixed. If the rich take all the money, the others will become poorer;
Wealth in the history of mankind has been continuously increasing and destroying (net growth in general );

Understanding wealth growth

The craftsman creates wealth by creating a commodity;
With the advent of industrialization, fewer and fewer craft workers are available. Currently, the largest handicraft crowd is programmers;
Programmers can create wealth by sitting in front of the computer;
The wealth created does not have to be sold for value; the discovery of penicillin makes us all richer;
Hackers often develop open-source software for free and donate their work to the society;

The most basic principle you must keep in mind is to create what people need, that is, to create wealth;

Focus on polarization between the rich and the poor

The daily tasks of the rich are similar to those of ordinary people;
They don't have to work any more. They are still working, not because they feel social pressure, but because they do nothing to make people feel lonely and depressed;

Select

A very wealthy but relatively poor individual society as a whole;
A very wealthy but very poor society as a whole;
I will select the former;
A society needs the rich, not because you need the expenses of the rich to create employment opportunities, but because of what they do when they get rich;
If you make Henry Ford rich, he will create a tractor so that you no longer need to farm horses;

Large companies

Large companies will make every employee's contribution average; in large companies, individual performance cannot be measured separately, and others in the company will drag you down;

Elements of getting rich

To get rich, you need two things: measurable and magnified;
Small groups are measurable;
Steve Jobs said that the success or failure of a business depends on the ten people who joined the company at the earliest;
I basically agree that I think the only thing that determines success or failure is the first five people;
High technology is equivalent to scalability;
The best defense is attack. If the technology you developed is hard to replicate by competitors, it will be enough, and you do not need to rely on other defense techniques; select a difficult problem from the very beginning, and then choose a difficult option for various subsequent decisions;
In general, this is a good principle. If you have two choices, you can choose the one that is hard to choose;

Number of users

If your company is lucky enough to be acquired, it will be a good choice;
The best way to make buyers pay is not to let buyers see the possibility of profit, but to make them feel the fear of loss;
Potential buyers will try to delay the acquisition; for buyers, the strongest motivation is to see that competitors may buy you;
The motivation of the Second-strong purchase is to worry that if you don't buy you now, your rapid growth will make future purchases costly;
Among the two purchase motivations, the number of users is in the final analysis;
Users are the only evidence to prove that they have created wealth;
Like buyers, you should regard the number of users as a test indicator;
Optimizing a company like optimizing software, the number of users is an indicator to determine the performance of the company;

The designer's tasteful design is symmetric design;

There are two kinds of symmetry: repetitive symmetry and progressive symmetry. Progressive symmetry refers to the repetition of elements, such as the grain pattern of the veins on the leaves;
(Eiffel tie)
In writing, you will find that symmetry is everywhere, and the plots of phrases, sentences, and novels are all like this;

A good design is a design that imitates nature;

Nature has solved many design problems in the long-term evolution. If your design is very similar to nature, it will not be very bad;

A good design is a re-design

It is good that someone will do the right thing at once. The expert's approach is to first complete an early prototype, then propose a change plan, and finally discard the early-rising prototype;
Throwing away an early prototype requires confidence. You must be able to see where you can improve it. People who have just begun to learn painting often do not want to repeat the wrong places, they think it is not easy to draw a picture like this, and the result may be worse than it is now;
This idea is very dangerous. You should cultivate dissatisfaction with yourself. It is normal to make mistakes. You must admit mistakes and make corrections;
The same is true for programming technology. There are no more modifications, and continuous refactoring ensures that each modification is simpler than the previous one;

Company growth

There are two ways for new things to be accepted by the market: one is self-letting growth, and the other is the Big Bang; A natural growth-like example is a self-built entrepreneur who starts from scratch and is self-reliant in the garage. After a product is developed, it is pushed to the market without any marketing or publicity, from the first few users to the word-of-mouth effect, the number of user data gradually increased; inadvertently increased;
The example of the Big Bang is the involvement of venture capital, the fierce publicity in the market, and the immediate acquisition of a large number of users;
In the end, it seems that the growth-like boom will produce better technology and bring more wealth to the founder;

Posted by: Large CC | 20 Sep, 2014
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Hacker and painter Reading Notes