The power of information

Today is the internet age, is also the information age, who can grasp more information, who is "expert", who can use this information to profit. "Devil Economics" chapter II, "Why the three-K party and real estate intermediary is tarred with", the author in this chapter cited a number of cases, demonstrating that the power of information unparalleled.

People in a foreign land, must have experienced the stage of looking for a house. In the Internet era, the information is more and more transparent, we will use some Internet channels to obtain information, but there is no denying that the intermediary has more information than we do. As a lazy person, I will directly choose from the intermediary side to obtain information, pay a certain intermediary fee, let them for me to find suitable listings information. But intermediary in order to deal faster, get intermediary fees, will do everything to persuade me to accept the existing listings, tell me that the existing price is very affordable. But after the investigation of the housing prices in the same neighborhood, you will be disappointed to find that the price can be much lower.

Information asymmetry is very common, the advent of the Internet can only increase the transparency of information, but can not eliminate the asymmetric information. and those who have more information can always profit from it, and one of the tools is information panic. take now the Shanghai Everywhere English education organization, when you walk into the Wall Street English organization, will have exudes "the life mentor" the temperament cc teacher to negotiate with you, from the life to the work, from now to the future, chat. Of course, the purpose of this is to let you relax on the alert, the second is to obtain from you the consumption of information, your demand for English, your financial ability. Moreover, if you find that you still do not want to submit, will use the information panic, do not master English this tool will lose a lot of job opportunities, now do not pay will miss preferential measures and so on. Of course, these means can not be said that these CC teachers are vicious, but all is a profit-driven.

We can not do every aspect is the information experts, in order to reduce the loss of information asymmetry, only as much as possible to understand and excavate information. For example, when you are ready to pay for a particular item, you can compare the price on the Internet; When you are ready to believe in a person's speech, from other nonpublic channels, to see his attitude towards the same thing; When you are ready to learn a new field, to see the exact opposite of this field, and to compare the differences And even keeping an eye on everything that's going on around you can help you judge the development of the situation.

I have this kind of people around me, so-called insight into the whole world, observing the people around, things, things, and then analyze the trend of development. As in 2015, the development of the eldest brother saw the growth potential of go language, then resolutely use go to revise the whole website, app and other products, now Golang really fire up, this batch of developers have realized the value-added. In the career, the more information, the more able to correctly judge the development trend, but also to help the cause and personal promotion.

The internet is gradually breaking the information barrier, in this era of information explosion, we have never lacked a message, we lack of valuable information. How to filter effective information and get valuable information from multiple channels is perhaps the problem we should think about and explore.