Speaking of the book "Online", this book should be the collection of the heart of Dr. Wang Jian, the former CTO of Alibaba Group; Wang Jian is a CTO with a doctorate in psychology, and naturally, he is full of more insights into human nature and society. Wang Jian is what Charlie Munger calls a person who has mastered multiple thinking models, and it is natural that reading the articles of such a person is enlightening and enjoyable; if you can keep up with his thinking, you need to be like him to master the basic principles of multiple fields of thought from multiple perspectives and multiple directions. The name of this book is "Online", but the content is introduced to the Ali Group from the IOE to the development of Ali Cloud Flying Sky to the development of yunOS operating system, which is difficult to experience only those who know their own water. Of course, reading this kind of book, the focus is on absorption and citation, from the book to draw energy, plus with a personal purpose of hoping to dig out some of Alibaba's alternative culture, more to start from the details, in-depth thinking, for example, there are the following:
? "Never think of using data to improve an existing business, that's not what big data should do, big data should do what it couldn't do before." ? Here I think Dr. Wang Jian must have carried out a profound practice in Ali Group, summed up this sentence, although I do not have a deep understanding of the content of this comprehension, why big data can not go to improve an existing business? I think here Wang Jian should be from the big data to find more treasures, such as you with a purpose to do something, but found in the process of doing something found another thing is what you should pay more attention to, and no longer entangled in the original goal. Here on the mirror of Alibaba became the current look, Alibaba is not the beginning of the plan to become the current look, is doing to do things that could not be done before.
"In online games, there is a class of character development type of game. Raising a virtual character needs to be supported by the server's computing power, which comes from the consumption of electricity, which produces carbon dioxide. So, some people have calculated that raising an avatar on the Internet produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as raising a real person." ? Here highlights the theme of "online", the future world should be a world where everything is online, the interconnection of everything is not the purpose, online is the purpose, so there is this sentence, online after the construction of a virtual world, this virtual world, you have a variety of personalities, a variety of labels, these numbers and labels, constitute a new you. A new you.
? "It was in that year that I went back to Silicon Valley, and in a speech at Stanford University, I first shared the basic idea of "flying". A lot of people think that doing something like "flying" in China is not reliable at all, and I think they're right, no one in the world would find it reliable because it's so difficult. However, it is interesting that there are many skeptics later joined Aliyun, engaged in the "flying" technology research and development. Because to do cloud computing, more or less need a little romanticism, otherwise not good." ? Here recounts the beginning of doing fly day, from a side can see, to promote a group of rapid progress must be a grand vision, need to romanticism to carry out some diffusion. The later part of the book talks about the Apollo moon landing program, from the background of the Apollo moon landing program to the current reality, the current scientific development of mankind's first landing on the moon has been a long time, but now there is still no manned landing on the moon again, once again should be proved, confidence and romanticism is the key to promote the affairs of the forward.
At the end of the group interview, I forgot to go up to him and ask him an impromptu technical question, and only remembered his answer, "Doing anything, arrogance is something to be put down, and any arrogance will prevent you from recognizing and innovating." This kind of answer reminds me of what was said in Trinity III: Dead Forever, "Ignorance and weakness are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is." ? Dr. familiar with the study of the heart obviously has a deeper understanding of arrogance, today, AliCloud's share is also slowly being gradually approached by other cloud providers, I wonder if Dr. here have a deep feeling.
I have always thought that it is the SMEs that help us survive. We need to learn to understand how others help us, rather than reveling in the arrogance that we help others all day long. Time has evolved to the present day, we have seen the rise of Pinduoduo, we have seen the Jiangfan incident, we certainly think that the incident is not isolated, Ali ultimately have not insisted on practicing their own values?
Once a colleague talked a lot about his views on the industry, which sounded a lot like a report from a consulting firm. I said you can't understand the industry unless you do two things: one is to receive more business cards than me; the second is to have used more boarding passes than me. There are some things that you haven't seen enough of to make a judgment, and a lot of things can't be figured out at home, you have to get out there. Researching competitors is easy, getting business cards is hard. I knew there was hope when a coworker said after a few years that he'd gotten more business cards and used more boarding passes than I had. We used to meet a whole lot of people who seemed unreliable, even scammer-like, and talk to them in hotels in the middle of the night. But it was these people who made things understandable to those of us who hadn't been there before, and helped us get a little bit closer to our goal.
I have a deep understanding that no matter what choice a person, a group, or a country makes, there is a rationale for it, and the question is, why is it rational to make that choice in that context? This book talks about playing crab company's cloud server should be for the record problem is no reason offline, this kind of service problems can even exist in the aliyun, it is extremely crazy and exaggerated; if a company's boss did not happen in this situation until the cause of the problem, then the company will not go far. This proves the saying that one should always choose the long term benefits if one can currently live. Having said that, if the current can't survive, it must be the result of not choosing the far future benefits in the previous days. Then, in order to end the cycle, it is still necessary to choose the far future benefit.