Shiyue Weekly (Issue 23): Left Ear Mouse

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This is the 23rd issue of Shiyue Weekly.

This week’s magazine is mainly based on my Weibo . I select some fragmented reading and thinking fragments to share every week. It will be sent by email on Monday. Welcome to click to subscribe .

The left ear mouse passed away suddenly last weekend, and there are a lot of commemorations and discussions on the Internet this week. I have no intersection with him, but I have been following his blog and Twitter for a long time, and occasionally interact with him on Twitter. He is very active on Twitter, and maybe I click on his posts more. With the blessing of the algorithm, his content appears in my feed almost every day, but suddenly one day it disappears. Things are changing, RIP

Some of the content recommended this week is related to him, or written by him, or known from his articles, or other related discussions.

content recommendation

XY Problem – Cool Shell @ 2013

The meaning of XY Problem is as follows:

1) Someone wants to solve problem X
2) He feels that Y may be the solution to X’s problem
3) But he doesn’t know what Y should do
4) So he asked others what Y should do?

In short, instead of asking how to solve problem X, ask how solution Y should be implemented and operated.

Words of a mouse in the left ear

The MacTalk article has been widely disseminated, and it is estimated that many people have read it. The content is very exciting, and I especially like the Never Say No, conditional Say Yes section, which is practical.

About the dismantling of the typical sophistry part of Mr. Chuma’s tweet | Kivinsae’s Nest

A tweeter named Chuma argued that “Chen Hao’s template is extremely poisonous to front-line programmers.”

This article is a rebuttal.

Many people have posted more or less sophistical posts. After all, it is not writing a thesis, so it is difficult to be rigorous in everything. But such a large-scale use of the original push with a strong life attack makes people uncomfortable.

People Die, but Long Live GitHub – laike9m’s blog @ 2019

This article introduces the problem of personal network data preservation after the death of a person.

I have always been confused about how to make my network data permanent. But if you think about it carefully, it may be neither necessary nor possible.

The network data of most people will eventually disappear, but the truly valuable and high-quality content will be preserved by others. For example, the blog of Left Ear Mouse has many people spontaneously backing it up.

You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times – Tablet Magazine

Starting from the COVID-19 incident and the artificial intelligence transformation incident, this article attempts to review the progress of human history, as well as various problems and challenges in the process of progress. Finally, there is the following summary:

While the ever-accelerating and ascending wave of human progress has brought us to peaks of achievement and influence that our ancestors could scarcely imagine, it has both failed to keep us safe from the most dangerous predators of all and—to the degree that the rate of progress has become a major force of destabilization—progress itself may now be the greatest source of danger humans face.
While the ever-accelerating and rising tide of human progress has carried us to pinnacles of achievement and affluence barely conceivable by our ancestors, it has neither protected us from the most dangerous predators nor—in In a way, progress has become a major force of instability—progress itself is now perhaps the greatest source of danger facing humanity.

“What gets measured gets managed” — It’s wrong and Drucker never said it – by Danny Buerkli @ 2019

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.
Not everything that matters can be measured. Not everything that we can measure matters.
——Ridgway

The Goodhart’s law introduced in the twelfth issue of the weekly magazine can be read in conjunction with this article.

[Podcast] 77. The Age of Great Voyage of Juan Wang——A New Paradigm for Chinese Enterprises Going Overseas – Crazy Throwing Circle

Some interesting points:

  1. Why does Ali not want to focus on the Meitu market when it works in Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan and South Korea? Pinduoduo is very clear that it will directly engage in the US market—the most unified market outside of China. From a business point of view, it is also the best market. Of course, looking at it now, there are greater political risks. Temu’s monthly activity is said to be 20 million.
  2. MINISO has developed very well overseas, which is an unexpected phenomenon. It adopts the offline mode, and the target countries are those countries with small area, small population and less developed countries. In these countries, e-commerce has almost no opportunities and cannot form a scale effect. Instead, it gave space to the offline chain model.
  3. The podcast mentioned that although there are many people in Southeast Asia, there are language barriers, cultural divisions, inconsistent markets, and e-commerce is not easy to do. In fact, it also exists in India. Although India is a country, it has many languages ​​and many ethnic groups. Unlike China, which has a single language and has a majority ethnic group that accounts for more than 90%. (An article on the Indian fruit chain in the 19th issue )

How big is China’s advantage in the field of electric vehicle batteries? – The New York Times Chinese Website

Even by 2030, China will produce more than twice as many batteries as all other countries combined, according to estimates by consultancy group Benchmark Mining Intelligence.

Seeing that the American media praises a Chinese industry so much, I doubt whether it is flattering or not.

Graph of the Day – Marginal REVOLUTION

The following picture is China’s GDP in the past 400 years. I don’t know how to calculate it. Its accuracy is very doubtful, but the two low points in modern times are instructive.

China’s GDP per capita hit its lowest point in the past 300 years under Maoism. Twice.

This page is hosted on my Android phone

Use Android as the server, operate the website, and support public network access. Speaking of it, from the perspective of parameters such as memory, CPU, and storage, it is much better than a VPS that costs $5 a month.

Minimalism


There is a strong feeling: regardless of personal perspective or social perspective, before and after the epidemic, history is divided into two periods. In future historical narratives, “before the epidemic” or “after the epidemic” will definitely be frequently mentioned.


I don’t understand that the 48th guest of the podcast invited Ruan Xiaohuan’s wife, Ms. Bei, to share some of Ruan Xiaohuan’s life in reality. His father is a university professor, and he himself was admitted to the university (a college student in 1996), but in the end because of his love Computers delayed the study of professional courses, and gave up the university diploma. At that time, it should be quite maverick. Ms. Bei said that his father could not accept it at all. Their husband and wife do not want children, and their AA lifestyle is also quite special.

tool resources


For the mac version of WeChat, command + option + control + R, bring up “WeChat repair work”, there is an option “Use the default browser to open the link”. So useful, get rid of WeChat browser.

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