零碎思考 | 读《The Essence of Japanese Architecture II》

日本人的一部分信仰，在他们的佛寺里
日本造园的艺术也极高
园林造景与意境上，II远超出I
突然想到，其实日本建筑的内部，并不适合大量放家具
乔布斯的居所，虽然风格差异大，但还是非常像日本木构建筑内部的
中国人画出了溪山清远的山水画，但却是日本实现了溪山清远的建筑，唏嘘
另一个需要思考的是，为什么我们很难看到中国古代平民建筑的内部？如今看到的基本是皇宫、王府
还看到了星际穿越多维空间的影子，P382

“Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.

Nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices…that need to be even easier to use than a PC, that need to be even more intuitive than a PC; and where the software and the hardware and the applications need to intertwine in an even more seamless way than they do on a PC.

We think we are on the right track with this. We think we have the right architecture not just in silicon but in the organization to build these kinds of products.”

——科技和人文的十字路口

《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 12 Two Decisions

Jim Collins, the bestselling author of the management classics Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies and Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, has a wonderful phrase to describe an essential characteristic of great leaders: deep restlessness. Collins applies the phrase to Steve, one of the two great leaders who inspire him the most (the other is Winston Churchill, the great English politician who was prime minister during most of World War II, from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955). Collins believes this restlessness is far more important and powerful than simple ambition or raw intelligence. It is the foundation of resilience, and self-motivation. It is fueled by curiosity, the ache to build something meaningful, and a sense of purpose to make the most of one’s entire life. 自己何其有幸，在不到30的年纪，就能感受到乔布斯的心境 “The things he was trying to do,” says Collins, “were always hard. Sometimes those things beat him up. But the response to fighti...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 15 The Whole Widget

What the world did see was an effective and visionary leader at the height of his powers. These were complicated years for Apple, but Steve handled almost every challenge in exactly the manner he wanted. He had fallen into leadership at such a young age, but he was comfortable in that role now, and justifiably sure of his capacity to guide Apple’s tens of thousands of employees to the goals he set for them. During these years, he would ensure the company’s continued success in personal computers by engineering a deft switch to a new kind of microprocessor; ruthlessly and successfully managing some major transitions in his executive team; and optimizing and building upon the efficiency and ambition of the company’s product development “treadmill,” as Tim Cook describes it. This is also when he delivered what is likely to be remembered as the most notable product of his life, the iPhone, and then improved even that by pivoting once again into a strategy he personally had not wanted to pu...

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可能比较危险的

全网监控公司： 1）中国厦门的美亚柏科 2）KIS（Knowlesys Intelligence System） 3）除中美之外的第三大AI监控技术供应商是：日本的NEC Corporation 中国的VPN公司： 1）VyprVPN、玲珑加速器 Point： 1）被GFW屏蔽的IP，反向也会无法访问大陆网络

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Steve Jobs at 44, By Michael Krantz, 1999

Differences and Similarities Between Apple and Pixar Apple turns out many products--a dozen a year; if you count all the minor ones, probably a hundred. Pixar is striving to turn out one a year. But the converse of that is that Pixar's products will still be used fifty years from now, whereas I don't think you'll be using any product Apple brings to market this year fifty years from now. Pixar is making art for the ages. Kids will be watching Toy Story in the future. And Apple is much more of a constant race to continually improve things and stay ahead of the competition. His Role At Pixar At Pixar my job is to help build the studio and recruit people and help create a situation where they can do the best work of their lives. And to some degree it's the same at Apple. But at Pixar, I don't direct the movies, whereas at Apple probably, if I had to pick a role out of a film production, I'd be the director. So it...

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巴菲特致股东信-1976年

笔记：为什么选择轻资产行业：当竞争疯狂时，不会强迫加入降价大战最终选择了费雪的思想，选择能理解的优秀企业，以合理的价格买入并长期拥有翻译：雪球：https://xueqiu.com/6217262310/131440258 备份：https://archive.ph/XLK0S 原文： To the Stockholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, After two dismal years, operating results in 1976 improved significantly. Last year we said the degree of progress in insurance underwriting would determine whether our gain in earnings would be "moderate" or "major." As it turned out, earnings exceeded even the high end of our expectations. In large part, this was due to the outstanding efforts of Phil Liesche's managerial group at National Indemnity Company. In dollar terms, operating earnings came to $16,073,000, or $16.47 per share. While this is a record figure, we consider return on shareholders' equity to be a much more significant yardstick of economic performance. Here our result was 17.3%, moderately above our long-term average and even further above the average o...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 11 Do Your Level Best

As a mass-market consumer electronics device, the iPod would eventually be sold, of course, all the usual places: Best Buy, Circuit City, big-box department stores, and even the computer retailers like CompUSA. Steve disdained all these outlets. His obsession with his products continued well after they’d been manufactured. The tacky, low-margin hustle of these chains ran completely against the minimalist aesthetic of his products and the clean exuberance of his marketing. There was only one place where he really enjoyed seeing his products sold to the public: his own Apple stores, which had debuted four months ahead of the iPod. 觉得那些喧嚣、嘈杂的零售渠道，配不上自己极美的产品 Going back as far as the debut of the Mac, Steve had always groused about the way Apple computers were sold in its resellers’ stores. The way his computers were displayed and sold represented the very worst of what could go wrong when things weren’t done his way. The salespeople, always interested in quick turnover, seemed to make litt...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 14 A Safe Haven for Pixar

Iger had big news to share: The following day, March 13, Disney would announce that he would become the next CEO of Disney, replacing Michael Eisner. Eisner had been CEO since 1984, and had followed a great first decade with a second one that can only be described as mediocre and turbulent. By the end, he had disappointed shareholders and alienated just about every stakeholder who had a vested interest in the company. One of those was Pixar’s CEO, who disliked Eisner so much that he had publicly announced that the company would find a new distributor once its existing contract with Disney ended in 2006. “Steve,” said Iger, “before you read it in the paper tomorrow, I’m calling to let you know I’m going to be named the next CEO of the company. I don’t fully know what that’s going to mean in terms of Disney and Pixar, but I’m calling to tell you I’d like to figure out a way to keep this relationship alive.” There was a long pause on the other end of the line. Iger had pondered this call ...

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产品随想 | 读《中国是部金融史》：第二章秦始皇统一了货币吗（秦朝）

战国时代什么最重要？答：人才！十地有的是，有人就能在土地上耕种，就能产出粮食。积攒人品、招揽居民的方法，就是变法。魏国的李悝、赵国的公仲连、楚国的吴起、韩国的申不害、齐国的邹忌⋯⋯七家诸侯都使出浑身解数鼓励别国的国民迁徙到自己的土地上—因为只有这样才能产出更多粮食，才能在战争的时候保证有兵源。 ──思路和现在的放开户口、人才引进，拉动GDP，是一样的所谓抑商也就三条。第一，秦国不能出现粮食贸易。(如果秦人买不到粮食就只能自己去种地，种地的人最实在) 第二，加重商税，重到任何贸易品种都无利可图。第三，降低商人地位。战国七雄，只有在秦困，商人才与赘婿并列为最低等的网人。货币是一枚一枚的铜钱，分散在国人手中，泰孝公如何能贪天下之利？只有禁绝货币，才能把所有利益都归于国君，国君才能更有势力（利出于一孔者，其国无敌）商鞅从来没有“重农”。他真实的想法是：民弱国强、国强民弱，所以，要想做最有权势的国君，就必须让天下人穷困（民弱国强、国强民弱，故有道之国务在弱民）！农、工、士、商四类人中，“农人〞必须依附于田宅，最缺乏流动性，手里也最没钱，是最容易管理的对象，也是最好的“弱民”。据说，商鞅“重农"的功绩在于给全国农人分配士地；据说，商鞅治下，每个男丁可以分配到一百亩土地。“百亩之田、五商之宅”是战国时代孟子的理想，最早出子《周礼》，到了《汉书》中居然成为商鞅的土地分配标准。就为这，商鞅被歌幼了几干年 ──蜜糖? 砒霜？商鞅之所以敢如此放心大胆地盘剥，是因为控制单一的农户比控制强大的宗族容易许多。毕竞宗族力量在一定程度上可以对抗王室，而被拆分为一个个家庭，就没有任何能力对抗封建集权。 ──破宗族，分田地至于农人，毫无血缘关系的五家被编成一“伍”。谁敢反抗，五个农户全体受罚，一般情况下会全被诛杀。即使有人跑出了家乡，只要在秦国境内，没有良民证的人也难免被抓获。没有良民证的结果就是被杀掉。 ──看到“良民证”，我想到了“核酸码” 商鞅认为，笨的人好管理（民&则易治也)。《诗经》《尚书》是周朝文化的代表，如果网人以《诗》《书》中的道理去蛊惑人心，有一个人，就能让上千人不再以耕战求富货；如果信奉《诗》《书》的人当了县官，就会有一个县的人不再尊敬国君；如果天下人都信奉《诗》《书》的道理，势必有人结党于下、议论政令，秦孝公的将不再是秦孝公的...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 17 “Just Tell Them I’m Being an Asshole”

For several months, I had been working to set up a joint interview of Steve, Andy Grove, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell. The confab was supposed to kick off the reporting for a book I had in mind. I had what I thought was a snappy title—Founders Keepers—and a plan to describe how a handful of geeky entrepreneurs had evolved into captains of industry; how self-absorbed inventors morphed into self-taught empire builders; how shaggy-haired idealists managed to stay in the saddle even as the companies they created grew rapidly by orders of magnitude, and as their own wealth and influence over the world itself became far more than the stuff of dreams. 好可惜啊，这次采访没有成形 During this time, Steve came to visit me in the hospital a couple of times. I was so addled with sedatives and painkillers and my own delirious hallucinations that during one visit I expressed my sincerest regrets at not being able to play saxophone in a Beatles retrospective show he was planning to put on in Las Vegas with Ringo S...

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产品随想 | 周刊第69期：Do not go gentle into that good night

Products Windows Apps That Amaze Us https://amazing-apps.gitbook.io/windows-apps-that-amaze-us/ 令人精细的Windows App 文物出版社 https://book.douban.com/press/2456/ 这是一个宝藏出版社，出品书籍质量非常高，大开眼界 blind https://www.teamblind.com/ 老外的匿名职场社交工具，挺有意思，看看硅谷的meme 中国科学技术大学测速网站 https://test.ustc.edu.cn/ 看着还不错，挺靠谱的底层代码是LibreSpeed https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest 能不能好好说话？ https://github.com/itorr/nbnhhsh 也是我的一个痛点 Tree Style Tab (aka TST) https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab 一个超强的浏览器扩展插件，树状呈现浏览器标签 Failory Pitch Decks https://www.failory.com/pitch-deck 超级多的融资计划投资板，Pitch Book AutoCut https://github.com/mli/autocut 用文本编辑器剪视频全网漫游指南 https://tagly.notion.site/tagly/a333efd8c3e54e12b123acd541e8d3e6 数字时代的指引，希望他们成功 IT eBooks https://it-ebooks.info/ IT书籍下载 ToastFish https://github.com/Uahh/ToastFish 一个利用摸鱼时间背单词的软件。利用Win10通知栏，出现、背单词 Ideas 沈向洋：IDEA 如何找到创新的「甜区」 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OlI5VUxQKU_ijWZClQCG0Q AIGC How Did Nor...

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