“We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.” ——Lloyd Reynolds, Reed professor & calligraphy instructor
I wish everyone could taste the excitement, the intensity that lies at the heart of true education, whether it takes place reading Plato’s Republic on the Great Lawn or wrestling with Zen koans on a TriMet bus. I wish everyone could have the time and space to kindle the spark of inspiration into a fire. And when it comes to reading—and writing—job applications, I wish everyone could remember that we, too, are unfinished projects, first drafts, rough cuts, works in progress. The main difference is that some of us have been going at it longer than others.
The Experimental Polymath https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2013/articles/web_special/crandall.html
Professor Richard E. Crandall的纪念文章“Never be so busy as not to think of others.” ——Mother Teresa
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse.” ——Friedrich Nietzsche
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.
——Steve JobsSpicetify https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.Steve Jobs: I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre. I've never had a distinction in my mind between those two types of people. They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it.
The Newton was a terrific idea, but it was too far ahead of its time. The Newton actually saved Apple from going bankrupt. Most people don’t realize in order to build Newton, we had to build a new generation microprocessor. We joined together with Olivetti and a man named Herman Hauser, who had started Acorn computer over in the U.K. out of Cambridge university. And Herman designed the ARM processor, and Apple and Olivetti funded it. Apple and Olivetti owned 47 percent of the company and Herman owned the rest. It was designed around Newton, around a world where small miniaturized devices with lots of graphics, intensive subroutines and all of that sort of stuff… when Apple got into desperate financial situation, it sold its interest in ARM for $800 million. If it had kept it, the company went on to become an $8 or $10 billion company. It’s worth a lot more today. That’s what gave Apple the cash to stay alive.
Henry Adams, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
超喜欢知乎马亚南的翻译，“师之影响永恒，断不知其影响竟止于何处。”
有种中华特有的美感“Think Different"：So hopefully what you’ve seen here today are some beginning steps that give you some confidence that we, too, are going to think differently, and serve the people that have been buying our products since the beginning. Because a lot of times people think that they’re crazy. But in that craziness, we see genius, and those are the people we’re making tools for.
华为励志音乐短片《Dream It Possible》【中英双字】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14x411C7oZ/
原来这首歌是华为出的汉字光标准化和数字化就花了一百多年，它能在 AI 时代存续吗？丨晚点周末 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QxAnhtitA8qWIfY34QQlSA
原来林语堂如此有情怀，更加敬佩THE AHWAHNEE HOTEL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_WZsjLgQU
大開眼戒（Eyes Wide Shut）裡的明示與暗示 https://reading-in-rain.medium.com/聖誕片單-分析翻譯-大開眼戒-eyes-wide-shut-裡的明示與暗示-上-2f5d7db05691
https://reading-in-rain.medium.com/聖誕片單-分析翻譯-大開眼戒-eyes-wide-shut-裡的明示與暗示-中-bcf01df402b8
https://reading-in-rain.medium.com/聖誕片單-分析翻譯-大開眼戒-eyes-wide-shut-裡的明示與暗示-下-b97f6a11cd85The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/tools-design-process/?profile=intercom
思路，工具，执行，成果The Stanley Kubrick Archives https://www.taschen.com/en/books/film/45439/the-stanley-kubrick-archives
库布里克巨著Leon Vitali: Stanley Kubrick’s Right Hand Man https://www.bradschreiber.com/selected-writing/leon-vitali-stanley-kubricks-right-hand-man
原来他对库布里克如此重要Behind the Mask of Corruption https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/04/06/behind-the-mask-of-corruption/
财新记者王和岩：庸常的人生需要新闻给予的快乐 https://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2024/01/14/125367542.html
财新网：谷俊山和“军盾一号” https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/402017.html
撒切尔夫人曾说：你不要担心中国，因为中国只能出口玩具、计算机和电视机，不能出口思想。
中国人自古以来，春秋时好一些，从汉代以后，膝软如棉，脸厚如铁。凡是膝盖软如棉的人必定脸皮厚如铁。什么都可以不要，脸皮能不厚吗？什么东西成堆？凡是没有力量的东西成堆，绵羊成堆，老虎狮子从来都是独居的。我希望你们成为学术界的老虎和狮子，不要成为绵羊。
Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall https://www.newsweek.com/jobs-talks-about-his-rise-and-fall-207016
1，公司是否能正面推动经济、社会或者文化发 展？ 如果做不到，BG可能就不会再往下看了。比如军火、赌博类公司再便宜，BG不会去看。 2，公司销售额在5年之内能否翻倍？ 为什么要讨论销售额？因为BG关注公司成长，销售额是比较简单直观的指标，而利润可有一些方法调节。所以，BG主要先关注销售额，再看现金流。 3，公司5年之后会怎么样？ 这是未来5到10年或者5到15年的中间维度，一是看公司的成长空间究竟还有多大，二是考虑5年之后，公司的短期估值会不会下降，会不会变得成熟。 4，公司的竞争优势到底是什么？随着时间会变 强还是变弱？ BG认为，如果公司的竞争优势是不断变弱的，将来在更远期挣回现金流的可能性就更低了。 5，公司是否有非常独特的文化？文化是否能够进化？ 毕竟要投资这么长时间，对创始人和公司管理文化是非常关注的。特别喜欢创始人领导的公司，而不是说创始人什么都不干，创始人在做房地产，找了一些人在做新公司，要尽量避免这样的公司。 谈到进化在BG看来，大部分公司都会有大公司病，需要看它怎么能维持比较灵活的管理，变大之后还能够保持非常快速的成长，比如亚马逊的day one文化（注：就是始终处在 创业启动状态，充满迷茫和压力，但是充满创造力和颠覆思想 ）。 6，公司过去的回报率怎么样？ 一方面是考虑到公司的ROE（净资产收益率），二是考虑公司的Margins（利润），看它的过去是不是值得投资，如果每年ROE都不到10个点，可能长期来看也没什么意思。 7，ROE能不能随着时间增长？ 有些公司一开始没有盈利，一直在烧钱，5年之后说不定ROE会到20%或者更高，它是一个动态过程。这样的公司BG也会投资，包括一些早期项目，很多公司都是没有盈利的。 8，公司怎么分配资本？ 资本现金流无非就是5种方法：再投资、收购、还债、分红、回购股份，要看公司在某个阶段的资本分配是不是最优的。 如果公司明明可以发展更多，结果乱分红了；或者是明明到了特别成熟的时候，还不愿意分红，都是错误的分配资本。 9，公司怎样才能长成5倍？ BG关注的是怎样，而不是能不能。这会强迫BG每个人去设想一些未来的可能性，包括公司现在的底层架构能不能够延伸到更多的业务。 比如，早期的亚马逊或者是阿里，连一个概念都没有，BG会考虑这个公司有没有这种机遇，以后去扩展到可触及的市场。 10，市场对公司有哪些误解，哪些事...