产品随想 | 周刊 第106期：Architecture cannot save the world, but it may serve as a good example

• “He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer’s booth at a fair and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

• 近 30 年戴镜史，分享我的配镜方法和粗浅经验 https://sspai.com/post/79573

• Leslie Berlin https://leslieberlinauthor.com/
  硅谷历史学家，对硅谷发展做出表述
  曾撰写诺伊斯的传记，也是乔布斯Make Something Wonderful的编辑之一

• Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-inside-story-pre-postmortem
  Palm的荣光

• Loren Pope, former education editor for The New York Times, writes about Reed in Colleges That Change Lives, saying, "If you're a genuine intellectual, love the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford. It is the most intellectual college in the country — Reed in Portland, Oregon."

• “Architecture cannot save the world, but it may serve as a good example.” ——Alvar Aalto

• The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024 https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Year-Ahead-2024?WT.mc_id=20231218210000_TYA-2024_BG-FB_&WT.tsrc=BGFB#
  活着是为改变世界

• Beej's Guide to Network Concepts https://beej.us/guide/bgnet0/html/split/index.html

• “It’s only for me, and — but I but I personally think of my belief that God exists, although I have no idea what that means. But I believe that there is something beyond human capabilities — and it might be some AI, but whatever, but I do believe that there is something that goes beyond the realm of human understanding, that I can try to learn more about how to resonate with, whatever that being would like me to do.”

• “Taste is trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then trying to bring those things into what you are doing.”

• Jobs explained in an interview with Businessweek in 2004: “Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together. Otherwise you can get great pieces of technology all floating around the universe.”

• As the great architect Alvar Aalto once stated: “Nearly every design task involves tens, often hundreds, sometimes thousands of different contradictory elements, which are forced into a functional harmony only by man’s will. This harmony cannot be achieved by any other means than those of art.”

• “每个人都有得到最好的权利，当代最真诚的优雅来自一个物品被使用的次数。” ——Philippe Starck

• 后来，团队认识到，游戏要在全球取得成功，必须在美国卖得好，而"美国人喜欢开枪射击"。

• 创业7年复盘，中美企业服务市场差异浅析 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2EiYgxCC9q6lCIz9V0ZhbA
  其中关于美国市场用户专业度高的描述，非常精准

• Why Legal Immigration Is Impossible for Nearly Everyone https://www.cato.org/blog/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible
  原来美国移民如此不容易

• 那些背负巨额债务以完成学业的学生，不太可能有远大的理想。因为当人们陷入债务时，他们就没有时间思考其他问题。
  债务是一种改造手段，当这些学生毕业时，他们不仅背负着沉重的债务，思想上已经被改造过了，使他们成为消费经济的有效组成部分。 -- 诺姆·乔姆斯基，美国著名学者

• 有一个名词叫做"报复性熬夜"，指的是有些人明明在白天疲劳不堪，晚上却不愿意早睡，宁愿在床上玩手机。
  这是因为他们控制不了自己的生活，通过在晚上推迟睡觉，获得一点自己掌控时间的自由感。

• Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components https://opencircuitsbook.com/
  如此精美的电子器件书，应该会让更多人爱上EE吧

• 如果金钱统治世界，那么谁统治金钱？
  答案是 那些有能力制造通货膨胀的人统治着金钱。他们首先借钱购买实物资产，通货膨胀之后，再用贬值的钱来还债。

• Fridman prompts Knuth to talk about how that Tic Tac Toe program had some 1957-style machine learning. “Yeah, that’s right,” Knuth says with a smile (adding “I don’t know how long it’s going to be before the name of our field is changed from computer science to machine learning…”)