As a software engineer. Perhaps you think you have mastered a lot of technology, in theory, you can develop a lot of products, said the straightforward point is that the world has some software should be able to make it! Things are often not that simple. Although you have mastered enough technology, this does not mean that you can make useful products. The value of a product is the decision of the market, the decision of the user, not the technical decision, not the engineer's decision. This is the starting point of my topic.
Technology is can learn, he is rational, but also rules, now say software technology, as long as not too stupid people, invest enough time, generally can master. There is a class of people in the world who create technology, and most of us just need to learn the technology they create, because we are engineers, not scientists. What engineers do is certainly within the scope of the argument, if you can break through yourself, appropriate to do a bit of research and development, then congratulations, you are not the general sense of engineers. Like a doctorate, his significance is to honor those who have a little breakthrough in the frontiers of human knowledge. What is the meaning of technology? I think the meaning of technology is that it is very good, appropriate, support the expression of products, through the product of this carrier, so that users get value. So, the SOFTWARE product itself, the iterative upgrade, it makes sense that it can not only solve the appearance, user experience problems, but also can upgrade technology, provide more features, or provide a better experience.
Therefore, as an engineer, I think, not only to upgrade their own technology, but also to pay attention to what they need to do is what is a thing, he is not a technical means of the mechanical manufacturing assembly process, but like God Pen Ma Liang, painted Shadow, and then Vivid, the final finishing touches, let the product live up. It's my first point of view to give product spirituality.
What is the spirituality of the product? Is this a trick? It's like a very advanced outfit? And then like the emperor's clothes, you do not understand, because you are not savvy enough, smart people understand, stupid talent do not understand? This question, my level, level, difficult to define, to the conclusion, indeed, I do not deserve. Because he is the ultimate problem of the product family. Like a Wonderful Life, from a cell development, 1.1 point of germination, first grew into a tadpole, and became a fish, and then become a kitten, and then evolved into a baby, he began to open his eyes, began to smile, began to walk, began to talk, he went to school, learned to write ... He became the man he wanted to be. This process, is not a simple physical and chemical changes to reflect the process, but the process of spiritual growth, because he is not only a simple material change, but also the evolution of the spirit, I am different from the material is carried in the matter of things called spirituality. I believe the readers agree that the growth of human beings is accompanied by the process of spiritual growth. The ultimate form of the product that I am going to argue with, the spiritual form, is like human beings as the outstanding product of nature, spiritual life. With this analogy, one might agree with the idea of product spirituality, which comes with the question of human spirituality that we can perceive in many ways, so what is the spirituality of the product? What kind of product is a spiritual product? Or am I in this nonsense, deliberately thrown out some cannot answer, or similar to the way of religion, not to say, not to say, imaginative achievement here, can not explain? What difference does it have with the emperor's clothes? I fell into the vortex of thought, and I wanted to cite the example of God and existence to illustrate that, in order to get out of relation with religion, metaphysics, superstition, I decided to use science, sci-fi analogy. Like AI, when the latest AI technology comes out, the industry immediately feels that it is not artificial intelligence, or far from the poor intelligence. Why is that? A lot of people have different opinions. , some say, because it is not smart enough, some say, it is only a certain aspect of a bit of expertise, other abilities and people far away. I have a point of view: Artificial intelligence as one of the highest goals of human software in the field, it is two times human creation, as nature creates human beings, are high-dimensional wisdom to create a low-latitude wisdom, that is, the current artificial intelligence at least than the world we are in a dimension. The high-dimensional human being, the product (or product spirituality) of the dimension is thought to be foolish and ridiculous, just as the creator of the high-dimensional world observes us, and we never know that we have been observed. Before the generation of AI with self-programming capability (evolutionary ability), all products at this stage are "foolish", but this does not mean that the product has no spirituality. did a big talk about the above talk, the next section on pragmaticDevelop design principles. How to do products, or how to make good products, this is a very difficult problem, like a painter, can practice all kinds of techniques, various techniques, but can draw a very artistic value of the work, which is another topic. A writer, he can learn lexical, syntactic, methodical, grammatical, grammatical, all kinds of helpful techniques, can write a masterpiece, this is also two said things. As an engineer, you may have mastered a lot of technology, in the face of the world's problems, can not be abstracted out, using the existing technology to express the output of reasonable products to solve the problem? As an engineer, you should ask yourself, is that what I'm good at? Some friends will say, there are product managers on the line, they go to abstract, to define, we do not do the implementation of the line? Product Manager is very important, he expressed a lot of things, these things are also very important, but he is not all, Product Manager gives a product of the final idea, it is an orderly world, the world with 1 said, then, the product has not come out of the "disorderly World" is called 0. Unable to express from 0 to 1 This process is where the product manager can't help you. Do products, is not defined features, the interface, design the process, and then transplanted into the computer to do a realization so simple. He is from 0 to 1, a creation from scratch, determine the technical solution, determine the application architecture, determine the implementation of the way, the process of forming a lot of details, is how to put all sorts of disordered elements, by compiling a variety of links, to make it into an orderly body process. Is that not as an engineer, just need to have a good 0 to 1 of the implementation ability? As to what 1 looks like, let the product manager, or the boss to think about it, this view is now the most popular one of the views, the world's most Internet companies, are product managers, the separation of the engineer's authority separates the model can be confirmed. As an engineer, without product thinking, like a horse pulling a car, this is not a good thing. The product "spirituality" is manifested not only in the final evolutionary form of the product, but also in the process of gradual construction from 0 to 1, through external help, or self-active evolution. This is my second point of view. The word "spirituality" is too high, too big, and I think it's great that our products can have good activity. How to make a product active? Just think: First it is right to solve the problem of the demand, and secondly, he is good maintainability, or self-maintenance; Then, the physical element on which he is to be realized: the code should be pure and face the engineer-friendly; it is a position, a personality, a choice, not a variety of will. It is well understood, easy to get started with, complex details hidden inside, simple interfaces exposed outside. The degree of harmony between the product's "spirituality" and another "spiritual" organism determines the degree of goodwill between each other,Therefore, the product design ahead, or backward, or do not meet the target users before positioning, is a mistake. above is my view of the product, the content is relatively rough, the reader's choice to see, after the opportunity to write down in detail: How to design active products. This controversy is estimated to be relatively large, please feel free to mention. Finally tell me what I'm doing, what I do is an online collaborative Office product that works to provide the best workflow service in the world, the Task Management service, and the problems that we want to solve exist in: Company and employees, employees and leaders, leaders and companies, Companies and customers in these principal contradictions,:). Now in the development of tension, product design ideas, positioning, pre-goal, the activity in which, first not one by one, the product release after the beta, will give you a detailed account. Cavatina's Entrepreneurial adventures My article will first be pushed in the public number (acao1984), the next day will be published to my several blog channels, please follow my classmates, please follow my public numberCao Zhihui "All-stack engineer" has the idea of the ape, luminous cloud technology founder is doing a beautiful online collaborative office products, my public number will not regularly share my personal real entrepreneurial adventures, about products, about programming, about the workplace, about the trend, may also contain other topics, Mutual encouragement with all road friends.
Cavatina's pioneering adventures--on the spirituality of products
