Talking about the Dark circle: from "hackers and painters" to see the way of entrepreneurship

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"Hackers and painters" became so popular overnight that the Paul Graham blog was published in the 2004 United States, translated and published in China in 2011. The recent reports of the bookcase experiment and Sina's record on continuous entrepreneurship have become more famous.

I'm a fan of the book, but I don't think there are many people who actually read this book, most people would think it was a book about internet technology and hackers, but it wasn't even a computer-related one, and it was an independent thinker who thought deeply about the world's conventional problems, Anyone who doesn't know anything about the Internet or computers can get a lot of inspiration, and this book proves that the success of Paul Graham, the world's most bull venture capitalist, comes from the success of thought. I have read this book, and I am encouraged to do so, and still inspire me to use action to explore the ideas mentioned in the book.

Here is the question he has examined in the book:

Why is the school a bad social organization?

-"On the surface, the school's mission is to educate children." In fact, the real aim of the school is to keep the children in the same place so that the adults can make the most of their work during the day. "

-"I've read a lot of historical data and I can't find any historical facts before 20th century to support this theoretically universal phenomenon." Many young apprentices of the Renaissance looked very happy and devoted. In the past society, young people played a more active role. Before the advent of the industrialized age, young people were some form of apprenticeship, not in a workshop, or in a farm, or even on a ship. They will not be thrown aside to create their own small society. They are low-level members of adult society. "

Why is the user experience important?

-"Near my home, a car bumper was stuck with a sticky piece of paper that said" it's too troublesome to Die "(Death unreported inconvenience).

-"Most people, most of the time, always choose the most convenient way." If Internet software can beat desktop software, it must win over the advantage of being more convenient. This is true both from the user's point of view and from the developer's point of view. ”

BTW: When I wrote this article, I realized the poor writing system of Sina, so I switched to the Evernote and the Apple system for writing. I hope the technical staff of Sina also read this book.

What is the difference between money and wealth?

-"To create something of value is to create wealth." You'd better figure out what is wealth first. Wealth and money are not synonymous. The time of wealth exists as long as human history, even longer, in fact ants also have wealth. Money is a relatively short history of invention. ”

-"What we need is wealth, food, clothing, housing, automobiles, daily necessities, travel and so on." Even if you don't have money, you can have wealth. Wealth is your goal, money is not. ”

-"If wealth is really so important, why do people keep their money on their lips?" in part, money is a simple expression of wealth: money is a by-product of specialization. The people who are most likely to understand that wealth can be created are those who are good at making things, that is, crafts people. The things they make are sold directly in the shops. However, with the advent of the industrialized age, fewer craftsmen are being grown. The largest group of artists currently present is the programmer. ”

The unspoken rules about entrepreneurship?

-"Your competitors decide how hard you want to be, and they make the same decision: how much you can eat and how much we can eat." ”

-"Another unspoken rule is that the pay and rewards of entrepreneurship are proportional in general, but disproportionate in the individual." ”

-"startups, like mosquitoes, often have only two endings, either winning everything or disappearing altogether." You don't usually know which ending you're going to end up with until the last minute.

Whether these views make you feel very shocking, it is these and ordinary people have different thinking, help us to understand our society more deeply.

Finally, on the practice I learned, I launched and initiated a SaaS software project in 05, and hackers and painters were only read in 2011 years. My colleague, 2-3 people, spent 6 years of practice using almost the same method as the one that created Viaweb in this book. Also made a good number of users of the site, during which the income of my colleagues to live a free and dignified life. The most important thing is that in the past 6 years, they have maintained a state of separation between life and work. At 9 o ' clock, 6 o'clock work. The rhythm of the double break never works overtime. There are several vacations every year. So far they love this project. became an excellent craftsman.

Some of the digression:

Qian Zhongshu said: "The eggs are delicious, you don't need to see the hen." "But maybe it was fate, just 2 weeks ago, when I met Mr. Nanyi, the hacker and painter, and accidentally learned some gossip:

-Mr. Nanyi is a professor of economics at a university in Shanghai who loves computers and spends his spare time in it writing, with sheer interest.

-Mr. Nanyi loves Paul Graham's blog, recommending domestic publishers to publish the book and volunteering to translate. The book was published in the United States in 2004.

-Mr. Nanyi the translation fee of this book is only tens of thousands of yuan RMB, the number of sales of this book and his own income is no longer relevant.

-The famous Luo thought recently, "the future stands behind you" surprised bookcase, sold 8000 sets without telling the title, and made a lot of money, and "hackers and painters" is one of 6 books. Mr Nanyi, of course, according to the characteristics of China's publishing industry, in this large-scale successful internet marketing, as recommended to the publishers and hard translators have received a considerable spiritual reward, but in the money is not a hair laozhao. I think the result is a wonderful irony, for the ideas mentioned in the hacker and painter.

-Mr. Nanyi also started his own blog, sharing his reading notes and it experiences, and made some small fee experiments, of course, the result was disastrous. A year, wrote a total of 88 blog, income of 255.97 yuan, 4106.04 yuan. Once again proves the weak correlation between true love and efforts to make money from entrepreneurship.

Finally spit out the recent article about The Dark Circle:

When we show off a few apartments in Beijing, entrepreneurship is a game of chasing money, and YC's success is more of the success of those unique ideas. So, buy a "hacker and painter", carefully read, you start the probability of success greatly increased, after all, this is the world's most successful VC's mentality process.