A programmer who is not alone is shameful.

Liu Zhenyu is a technical expert. He once served as the general manager of winwin Technology Development Department and Director of A8 music lab. Liu Zhenyu has an extraordinary long hair and clear-cut eyebrows.

For the first time, xiaobian was dealing with Liu Zhenyu. A few days ago, he asked the global maker marathon about his ideas (he is the judge of the event) about the event. He answered several questions in an email. The email was sent at three o'clock in the middle of the night. It was very emotional. Many analogy and comparison were made, and there were some old-school scholars who were "sour" in the words and sentences. The editor asked him: "Why did I read a recitation between your lines?" He replied, "Sorry, this is an old problem and cannot be changed ." Since he is a tech geek, xiaobian arbitrarily labeled him as a "Crossroads of technology and culture.

During the interview, his reply was "very good ". Look, it's really sour that xiaobian has not wronged him. But in the actual chat process, he did not see any text in the text, the logic is clear, the thinking is rigorous, talking and closely linked to the topic, geek enthusiasm and convergence are exposed.

The figure shows Liu Zhenyu in his office. The photo is not as good as I did. In order to fit his rock temperament, Xiao Bian added a Goth style filter.

Craftsman

In an environment where everyone is overwhelmed, the "craftsman" is definitely a title to the technician. The mission of a craftsman is to keep a reasonable distance from the market and users by striving for perfection in skill.

Top technologies mainly focus on products for developers or manufacturers, such as flash brush products and development boards. Unlike end consumers, the latter focuses on time-consuming, fast iteration, and large batches, in zindu Shenzhen (or any other place), if a small team of more than a dozen people, such as qingtech, is a consumer-grade product, the texture is hard to guarantee, and Liu Zhenyu is unwilling to do anything too rough. For geeks who have played countless top products like this, things are too rough. Maybe they can't get them. I'm sorry for that.

Liu Zhenyu and his partner are very different personalities. His partner has a smart business mind and is as eloquent as the crosstalk actor. He can negotiate with customers and suppliers in one hand to deal with all relationships with "people, therefore, Liu Zhenyu has enough space to quietly write his own code. Maybe it is better for programmers to be a little lonely to write awesome products.

The fate of Liu Zhenyu and the code goes back to 1988. he typed the first line "Hello World" on his father's computer ". In the world of many people, computer may be a logical thing, so it may be difficult to understand the shock it initially brought to people. Why were the vast majority of people exposed to computers so surprised at that time? "When you enter something, the computer will feed you something, which was quite fresh at the time. Just like an electric switch, if you press it and the light is on, it will make the child very excited, but this feedback is very simple and will soon get bored. The computer is different. What it gives feedback depends on what you enter, and there is a vast and promising world behind it ."

Later, Liu Zhenyu University went to computer science. When he graduated, he founded a small company in Shenzhen to work as an ERP software for small and medium-sized enterprises. But this is a very advanced thing. In 1999, small and medium-sized enterprises in Shenzhen were still using a pen to keep an account, and the human brain was used to manage the supply chain. ERP had no market. Liu Zhenyu Quickly shut down the company and went to a company in Shenzhen to do technical work.

"Introverted" programmers

"If people can appreciate loneliness, it is also a kind of beauty ." Group building is a kind of capability, while being alone is a more important capability. When you are a person, will you feel bored and lonely? Can you talk to yourself?

The untechnical sour words in the quotation marks come from the comments made by the editors of the university textbooks to reflect Liu Zhenyu's "introvert. In Liu Zhenyu's concept, extroverted personalities rely on external feedback to gain self-recognition. As soon as they get together, they will become more and more energetic, while "introverted" people rely mainly on self-cognition, and they are constantly consuming themselves when they are with the crowd. Liu Zhenyu thinks he is an introverted person. His work schedule is relatively fixed. He arrives at the company after noon every day and handles the affairs at home in the morning. "No one at home in the morning. It's quiet. I can have time to think ."

Let's talk about his long hair here. A man has long hair, either a mother-in-law, a painter, or a rock roll. Liu Zhenyu is the third type. When he was in college, he began to get in touch with rock, play the guitar, play the drums, and later joined the band. Now, because he founded the top technology, the band naturally could not operate, but sometimes it may take a while to hold the guitar. "Writing programs and doing things is a kind of consumption. The human spirit is freed from being poured into products. When playing music, I can calm down and focus on my own heart ."

Liu Zhenyu looked at Lao Zhuang's philosophy and made some research on Jung's psychology. He said that he was not a joke to say that he was "standing at the crossroads of science and technology and humanities.

Is it humanistic or sour "?

Liu Zhenyu's father studied comparative literature. He may be influenced by his father. Liu Zhenyu liked literature since he was a child. When he was in the third grade, he published an article in the newspaper. The first draft fee was 5 yuan, which was a huge amount of money ". When I was a freshman, I wrote novels. Liu Zhenyu also wrote the novels and circulated them to students. "serialization" was so happy that I didn't expect the class teacher to be the final person who sent the novels back. In this way, Liu Zhenyu was eventually given an education pass by the class teacher. The novel died and the enthusiasm for writing was also cracked down. Just today, Han also published a blog record recalling the experience of being "cheated" by the mathematics teacher, so that he had to give up on mathematics: in the past, the education we received was really rude.

When talking about this, Liu Zhenyu was afraid of having no regrets, right? "With the transfer of interest, I became crazy about radio, so I didn't write any words. Now, the Chinese language remains in the high school era. The rhetoric and grammar in the email I sent you back are a little outdated. In addition, it is a middle-night writing, which makes it even worse ."

Lean team

Their team is also amazing. A dozen of them are big masters, and there are no half of them. "Are administrative staff Male ?" "Our administrative department should be a cashier and buy office supplies. This girl can do it, but our administrative department should also repair computers, purchase electronic components, and sometimes move things. This girl cannot do it ."

There are only a dozen people in a hardware Team (12 people in small series). It is very lean. Liu Zhenyu said that he also felt that the company was just in shape and very efficient. It would be good if he could keep so thin, however, according to the current company's plan and the current workload of the company's employees, some additional personnel may be required.

It is easy to find the right employee because employees of such companies have one or more roles. In addition to work skills, Liu Zhenyu focuses more on the applicant's self-driving and incentive mechanisms. "I hope he has the desire to make one thing and strive for it ." Most people in the company are engaged in mental work, and their brains are too tight to work well. Therefore, the team management is also very "easy", so they don't need to punch in, and work hours are flexible, KPI assessment is also relatively extensive (in fact, many things will be omitted in the future if it gets stuck when recruiting people ). Teams of more than a dozen people know each other about what the other party is doing. This is almost a natural operation and does not require a prominent management style.

The ideal of a southern entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs in Shenzhen are very grounded and start their own business with the goal of "survive". After gaining a firm foothold, they want to do some idealized things. After several years of business operation, peak technology has stabilized, so they intend to do something advanced, a kind of "embedded prototype computer board" (mixtile, chinese name "mi Tai", search to follow them), a simple understanding is more advanced than Raspberry Pi, Arduino Development Board, open source China evaluation as "probably the most powerful board at present ". Liu Zhenyu and his partner have registered a "interesting Technology" for such development board projects. Weibo has gone up and invested half of the company's resources to do this. This kind of Development Board has a smaller audience, and may not have any commercial returns within a year or two.

"How can Dong (his partner, a friend of the small Editor) make a loss business ?" In the impression of Xiao Bian, his partner is more like a businessman with little fortune.

"He believes me, and I believe there are prospects in this field. That's enough ."

Of course they are not so easy to describe. They are all dream‑loving people. There are certainly other reasons to choose this field apart from their preferences. Liu Zhenyu believes that Raspberry Pi's popularity is an inevitable, not an accidental result. People are increasingly unable to meet the needs of standardized industrial production products and have more personalized requirements, with the popularization of open-source software and open-source hardware, the threshold for building ultra-high-definition home cinemas, making home lighting and air conditioners more intimate and even inventing over-the-horizon unmanned Helicopters is very low, more and more people choose their own DIY. As long as you are willing to invest in this field for a period of time, there will be gains.

A programmer who is not alone is shameful.