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Portal: hacker and painter: Paul Graham, father of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

A good book not only gains some skill or methodology,He taught us a strict way of thinking, a habit of learning to put our eyes on a longer-term decision-making. He urged us to develop the habit of independent thinking.He did not give us a big fish, but gave us the method of capturing the big fish,It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish..

I have always thought that speaking a very general question we know is very thorough and very clear, and it is a very remarkable capability. Paul greelm not only gives a thorough explanation of the question, it is also very interesting, which makes us feel interesting during reading. This is not easy.

Many Internet practitioners have probably heard of this book, and most people have already read it, so I will briefly discuss some of my thoughts on reading this book from other perspectives, hoping to help you.

When I read the chapter "Why are nerd not welcome?", I thought of this sentence ,「Where is your time and your achievements?」. We always envy successful people in our lives. We always think that successful people are different from ordinary people, and they must understand some secrets to success, they were born differently from people around them. We also always hope to get some valuable suggestions from these successful people, and get all the useful tips that will ultimately make people famous. In martial arts novels,Anyone who is eager to become a martial arts master wants to get a secret of martial arts that has the power of the world.This is because once the secret is successful, it can be done as long as it is based on the gourd painting.

But how can the world be so simple, and there will never be the secrets of one or another martial arts.The so-called successful people just put their time into the fields they are interested in.In fact,Each of us may be a successful person in the field where we have invested time.Some students may not put their time into learning at school, but they have invested a lot of time in the game field. They spend a lot of time playing games and watching the game explanation video every day, study the game strategy and think about the gameplay. In this game, he is the king. Some people may like computers.ProgramHe wanted to know how computers think, and eventually he became a hacker.

The painter can make painting better than us, just because he put all his time into it, and the track and field athletes run faster than us, it's just because he put all his time into running.They do not want to make themselves unpopular. They are more willing to invest their time in making themselves smarter.Every one of us can decide the field of our time, and the time we invest will ultimately achieve us.

When I read other chapters in this book, I found that hackers are actually not very different from us,They advocate sharing, openness, and democracy more than ordinary people. They have a strong curiosity about anything banned. They like to think about things that do not seem to be considered, they believe that computers will profoundly change people's lives.

Although this is a book about hackers, I think everyone should read it. As the translator said, the future of human life is not only the interaction between people, but also the interaction between people and computers. To grasp this era, we must understand computers. The key to understanding the computer is to understand the people behind the computer. On the surface, this is an era of machines, but in fact the designers of machines decide our era.The programmer's Aesthetic determines the software interface you see, And the programmer's hobby determines what kind of software you can use.

If you want to learn more about the author, the following two links can help you:

• author blog home: http://www.paulgraham.com
• his introduction on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_ (computer_programmer)