Hackers and painters-learn to be a tasteful programmer

Last week, I shared my thoughts on reading the book

First of all, Paul Graham, the author of this book, is the father of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The ycombanator Investment Fund is also a unique seed fund company.

First, the entrepreneur created a new type of investment (beginning in the 20th World), created a summer camp for entrepreneurs, helped them realize their own ideas, communicated face-to-face with VC, and presented their products, effectively integrate products with the market. It sounds like China's innovation workshop in the current stage is a follower and basically consistent in form. A friend smiled and said: What makes the big difference between Kai-Fu Li and the author is whether entrepreneurs who have not yet created a business can really understand the entrepreneurial team? Of course, this is a joke. Li Kaifu has no small entrepreneurial team, but in a large company, it may have created many achievements. This is similar to entrepreneurship, but the starting point is higher.

YC investment funds are very influential in the United States, helping entrepreneurs increase the probability of success, and encouraging more hackers (high-level programmers) to join the entrepreneurial path to work efficiently, create more social wealth.

In addition, I am afraid he is a programmer with the taste of painters. It is easy to be a programmer, but it is very valuable to have a taste. Of course, this is related to his life experience. He is a bachelor's degree in philosophy and doctor's degree in computer science, but he is dedicated to pursuing the Artistic Dream, after graduation, I studied art (I once studied at the Florence Institute of Fine Arts and the Rhodes Institute of Art), but after all, I chose computer. But this is also the choice of life, which makes him a series of subsequent innovations. This reminds me of Steve Jobs, my idol:

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something-your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Programmers are now considered as coders, a relatively inexpensive type of work. Maybe more of them are due to lack of taste.

As a tasteful programmer, just like painters and architects, building their own great products is only because of different tools. They use time paint, while programmers use programming languages.

Learn to be a tasteful programmer and a tasteful person.

Second, when it is worth thinking about, programmers use programming languages to make great products, but programming languages come from others' ideas. How to use the same language has different styles, it also contains different souls. When we use it, will it be influenced by the inertia it holds and control the way we think? I have not been able to fully understand the meaning of various programming languages. But as the author said, we must learn the lisp language, or it is useless, but it can change your way of thinking and improve your understanding of the language, this is the thought-based experience of programming languages.

Third, we need to think: if we make unremitting efforts on good products and want to be a tasteful person, we need to be unable to tolerate flaws. Is it a bit similar to a person in Virgo? Haha, it seems that Virgos are suitable for product managers ~ To make a good product, you must learn how to have the taste of the designer. Only beautiful products are natural and simple, and everyone will like them. We need to constantly enhance our taste. What is a good design?

Or some of the documents mentioned in this article are about entrepreneurship and wealth. The experience he introduced has basically been applied at present (only as far as I know, if you are interested, take a look.