Archive for July, 2008
Focus
I subscribed blogs about GTD(Getting Things Done) and read articles about how to GTD.
It’s worth to take time to learn about GTD, which will rewards for your time on it. As far as I’m concerned, the first principle of GTD is
One time do one thing!
We are in the time of surrounded by so many things and disturbance. Even if I write this article, I listen to audio articles of Knowledge Wharton, my gmail account is online, google reader, douban, my MSN and TM are online, luckily, no one talks with me when I write it. Oh, I nearlly forget about my cellphone. As I’m no body, few people will disturb me. While if you are some body, it’s always the case that you are disturbed from time to time.
When I’m in Office, the life is rather busy. Today, mails I received are more than 30, attended a meeting, and check products propaganda booklets with more than 10 categories, submitted 5 skus and check condistions of more than 30 skus. oh, let alone the communication with colleagues and phone call.
How to deal with many things? Focus, one time do one thing. I use an excel file to follow up all the things I’m engaged in, writing down the process of them, check whether they are done or not, who is in turn now, Should I urge him/her?
Don’t let too many things occupy your mind, write them down, and do one thing a time. Don’t let other things interrupt you until you finish the thing you’re doing.
None of us can have more than 24 hours a day. We should make use of time, be the master of time, rather than being slaved.
If you’re interested, take time to read the following article:
Stoooopid …. why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4362950.ece
or Chinese Version:为什么Google一代没想象中那么聪明？ http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/Evelen/11168
Ps: I used to use Greatnews to read blog, while now transfer to Google reader, that’s because I have to use different computers when I’m in office and at home.
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黑天鹅
我在申音:当创业遇上“黒天鹅” 再一次看到有人提到了 The Black Swan 这本书。“不要用平常斯坦去解释极端斯坦。”
创业成功者的成功总是会被无限地放大。“成功本身就很偶然，而从概率的角度来看，像比尔盖茨、马云、江南春那样的成功更绝对属于黑天鹅事件。”
“当你真正创业的时候，你会发现这些故事一个都帮不上忙。原因在于，成功故事总是成功在前，故事在后。解释为什么成功和如何达致成功是完全不同的概念。所以我的另一个正在创业的朋友干脆说道，成功完全是总结出来的。”
你所不知道的事比你知道的更有意义
那些行业外的闯入者，他们根本不了解行业的细节运转，他们只有大局观，他们从抽象和总体入手，他们的跨界思维与行业现有玩家的大不相同，无知者无畏。他们可以尝试一切像机会的机会。结果，幸运的苹果常常砸到他们的头上。
圆圆的月亮在地上在说房价：屁股决定嘴巴说到：
不论你看到的公共政策作如何标榜，一定要明白，从来就没有真正的代表人民根本利益的自然之作，而必是大小不等、明暗不一的利益群体，以不同方式在不同的层面上进行的博奕活动的结果。
I’m shocked! Not by the contents, but by title.
Steve Pavlina posted a piece of article The Purpose of Life.
What is the purpose of life?
The purpose of life is to increase your alignment with truth, love, and power.
You are here to:
- Discover and accept ever deeper truths.
- Learn to love more deeply and unconditionally.
- Develop and express your creativity.
#1 leads to wisdom.
#2 leads to joy.
#3 leads to strength.
想到了伽罗瓦
如果我们面临的问题无法用现有的知识结构解答，那么也许我们需要有更多的知识才能够解决问题。
想起了群论的起源，想起了天才的数学家伽罗瓦(Évariste Galois,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois ) 。
如果我们面对的问题在某一个层面上无法解决，那么，我们就要考虑在更高的层面上来思考这个问题。在二维平面上无法解决立体问题。当我和小组成员在做一个图论问题时，我们的建模出现了循环引用，我想一定是哪里有问题。不解决循环引用的问题，这个问题我们就无法求解。想到了，增加一个维度，就可以解决循环引用。该题目就变成了一个比较常见的线性规划的问题。
broad view20080723
爱搞搞在《希拉里当不了副总统候选人？》的分析过程让我甚为佩服，怎么去看待事物，分析事物，这就是方法。
Brian Lee的《What I’d Tell Myself if I Were 18 Again》让我再次思考，我到底想过什么样的人生呢？
有勇气的人生才开心在《女人》说到：
婚姻，应该是两个人相扶相依的过程，而不仅仅是谁靠着谁。
因为男人的生存压力更大，所以，男人要幸福，得找个懂事、宽容的女人。女人不需要很会挣钱，却要懂得珍惜男人挣来的钱；女人不需要事业有成，却要懂得欣赏男人事业上的每一点成；女人不需要功成名就，却要知道自己是所爱的人身后坚实的一棵树，他也需要休整、他也会有困难，他也需要有一个支撑他，那个人，最应该，是，你 – 他身边最近的女人。智慧的男人让女人更美丽，智慧的女人，让男人更自信。
沈南鹏的学习曲线：
成功者是如何成功的？你羡慕他们吗？你像他们那样在努力地学习工作吗？
cc and Bcc
接到某位同同的mail，发现收件人里面有着长长的名单。想起曾经收到过的FW:FW:FW:FW，在FW的里面，看到各个公司的人的email list。
如果不是很有必要放在to的那里，我觉得bcc给所有人会好一点，这样可以避免你的收件人的list从此被转发到不知道什么地方去了。
附：北美跨国公司里的生存笔记在《公司内部电邮的潜规则－I》说到了关于邮件的To 和CC的规则，其实不是什么“潜规则”，而是常规则。
Beijing Huanying Ni, who is “Ni”?
The Olympic is coming. News about Olympic is surrounding us. But I find I become lest like to know news about Olympic.
Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini. These are Five Fuwa of Olympic2008 in Beijing. Connect these five Fuwa together, Beijing huan ying ni. or, in English, "Welcme to Beijing." But I want to know, who are welcome? It’s not me, not 100 thousand people live in the basement, not people with no Indentify Card.
Beijing welcomes you to come, but who is "you"? can anyone tell me.
Just as, All right belongs to People, but, who is people? you? me? nobody now. ‘People" is just an abstract concept. Those person in power can interpret the concept at their will.
Asking the right questions
Asking the Right Questions
作者: Neil Browne / Stuart M. Keeley
副标题: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)
ISBN: 9780132203043
页数: 212
定价: USD 41.20
出版社: Prentice Hall
装帧: Paperback
出版年: 2006-02-10
This is a wonderful book!
Everyday, we talk with others about one thing or another. Someone proposes their opinions and used evidences to support their standing point.
You might not quite agree with them, but you don’t know how to criticise their idea, or even, what they are talking about? You are lost. This book, will teach you how to think of thing and ask the right questions to make you know think better.
The book provides 11 questions for you, which help you have a
1. What are the issues and the conclusions?
2. What are the reasons?
3. Which words or phrases are ambiguous?
4. What are the value conflicts and assumptions?
5. What are the descriptive assumptions?
6. Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?
7. How good is the evidence?
8. Are there rival causes?
9. Are the statistics deceptive?
10. What significant information is omitted?
11. What reasonable conclusions are possible?
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