Every week, I will share the good content I saw this week, plus some of my own personal understanding and comments. This is a relatively light way of continuous output. The first three issues are:
This is the 10th issue.
Before I knew it, I had been writing in this way for 10 weeks, and I was going to be lazy and skip this issue this week, but when I thought about it, I had been writing for 9 weeks, why not keep it straight. You see, this way of making a plan for yourself is like a contract, a great way to develop a habit.
Of course, I think this kind of writing is still good for me, and it allows me to read and think more deeply. Let me know if you have any suggestions for my weekly magazine!
The next Google | Hacker News
I think Hacker News is very good, mainly because there is a very good discussion atmosphere, and it’s all open. What a pity, why is there no similar Chinese community, or there is but I didn’t find it?
In this post, we are discussing some other search engines. Kagi is one such product that is still in beta, and it believes that everyone should customize their search options and results.
I think this may be a direction, because when a product has achieved absolute market domination, only the direction of differentiation can make a breakthrough. But this differentiation also means a niche. While most people expressed pessimism about the project, many said that Google does need to improve in some areas.
To make a popular product, the simpler the interface, the less options the better, because most people are actually lazy and don’t want to make choices. Choice and memory are anti-human. Both Google and TikTok do this:
I think ‘more customization’ which is a theme with a lot of these alternatives is a fundamental dead end. I don’t know where this persistent myth comes from that people love choice and tinkering, because they clearly don’t. There’s a huge cost associated with having to make choices, and one feature of successful modern apps is that they’re frictionless. That’s why TikTok is so successful. There’s no login, no user chosen social graph, everything’s abstracted away.
And that’s by the way why Google is still successful as well. Because it literally still is a simple box where you put a question in and it gives you answers without needing to do anything else. The only way to beat that is to make it even better while not making it more complicated which is very hard to do.
Similar to the Chinese Internet circle, people also feel that too many “walled gardens” make the Internet less open:
Open Web died or almost died because of walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Billions of people who hang out on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter would hang out instead on Open Web eg websites, blogs, forums etc. if walled gardens didn’t exist.
The term walled gardens is too graphic, we are all used to walled gardens by now. A lot of this is the product of capital, and because capital wants to make a profit, the wall is used as a moat.
Maybe Web3 can solve this problem to some extent, who knows.
highest form of wealth
The Highest Forms of Wealth Collaborative Fund
Can wealth bring happiness and joy, of course, but only if it is not abused. Money is like oxygen, it is definitely not good without it, but it seems that there is no more benefit if there is more. The points made in this article I think are good:
- Desiring money beyond what you need to be happy is just an accounting hobby.
- How much money people need to be happy is driven more by expectations than income.
Rather than purely pursuing wealth, we should pursue freedom and independence .
While doing the same thing, being forced to do it is a world apart from doing it freely : Five-year-old Franklin Roosevelt complained that his life was ruled by rules. So his mother gave him a day of free time to do whatever he wanted, Roosevelt wrote in his diary that day: He consciously and contentedly returned to his routine, doing the same things he had done before.
Money can make people choose not to think about money, and the reality is that there are many rich people who are rich but have no time:
Charlie Munger summed it up: “I did not intend to get rich. I just wanted to get independent.” It’s a wonderful goal, and harder to measure than net worth.
Making money is a special skill, even luck, and for many people, how to not care about money without financial freedom is the secret to happiness.
A thing I’ve noticed over the years is that some of the wealthiest people think about money all the time – which is obvious, because it’s causation. But it’s an important observation because most people, despite aspiring to become one of the wealthiest, actually want something different: the ability to not have to think about money.
Combine this article for more inspiration:
How I got wealthy without working too hard
impostor syndrome
Rust Inside, an official podcast for the Rust community, recently posted an article on impostor syndrome. Haha, it can be said that many people in the IT industry have this symptom.
Rust Foundation staff will contact some contributors to help them apply for funding. In practice, while some contributors liked the opportunity, they felt no reason to apply for grants from the foundation because they felt they were ineligible or undeserving of them compared to other TCs.
Impostor syndrome occurs when we underestimate what we know and exaggerate what we think others know, an effect often reinforced by systemic biases.
This phenomenon is embodied in:
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Realistic external achievement, but no inner sense of achievement
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Believing that people around you overestimate your abilities
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Attribute your achievements to luck or other external factors
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Worry and fear that others will find out that you are actually fake, in fact, your ability is not as good as others think
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Don’t reward yourself for what you do well, can’t accept or believe others’ praise for yourself
I myself have some problems in this area, and I feel that the biggest trouble caused is lack of self-confidence .
But it has gotten better over the years, because I learned that many people actually look good or very strong, because the Internet is an amplifier. If we really understand it, it is not much different from you and me, or we have not seen other people’s achievements. Hard work and struggle, thereby imposing some peer pressure on yourself.
So, do you have any questions about this? Do you have any good solutions to share with me? 
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