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This week’s theme is, scope.
I still want to talk a few more words around the word “degree”. In the last issue, I talked to you about degrees of freedom. I want to focus a little more today. Before that, I want to say a few words of nonsense, I hope you understand, what writing means to me.
Writing is my way of thinking. There is a high probability that I will not plan the subject of each issue, which may be the only constant in this newsletter from beginning to end. At the beginning, I hope to write some content with water and water, in short, I hope to write the result of my thinking, and why I think this way. So at first, I wanted to present my weekly thoughts in a newsletter, hoping it would focus, switch, focus within a few themes. So the dynamic flow of my thoughts from week to week is the source of my writing. The first obstacle encountered in doing this is that the themes between them are seriously separated and have no connection. Therefore, after the cold start of the first issue, I only started to write the second one after half a year. After writing 30 issues, it was stagnant for a while before I decided to continue. The reason is very simple, I have no new thinking, and I have not updated the existing way of thinking, and the days are repeated in an almost repetitive and monotonous spiral.
In my opinion, “How to” is one of the rare things that can really help people, and it’s also a way of showing part of the truth I’m after. It is easy for everyone to say the golden sentence, but how the golden sentence is condensed in everyone’s head, this matter is rarely shared by everyone. Talk shows are a good starting point, and the Paris Review has become famous for it.
Many writers start in different ways, but without exception, everyone who becomes everyone has one thing in common, love and persistence. It’s just that everyone’s approach is not the same.
I want to say that the above sentence “Writing is my way of thinking.” is the only sentence that existed in my mind before I started writing. As for what you see behind, my thinking is after hitting the keyboard. look.
scope
A range can also be understood as a degree. Just a joke, how far can we tolerate it. A fugitive, how far should we expand our search. Behind this, there is another meaning, how much is our budget cost. Costs can be very imaginary things, such as how close a person is to us, which determines how much jokes we can tolerate, or it can be very concrete things, how much threat this fugitive criminal is, life, property, political secrets… …whether it takes whatever it takes to find him.
Scope can help us make judgments, make decisions, and may also influence our judgments or decisions. Ruan Yifeng wrote in a newsletter that at the Web2.0 Summit held in San Francisco in 2010, the organizer released an “Internet Map” :
This map divides the Internet into different spheres of influence. For example, Google is the search kingdom, Facebook is the social kingdom, and the e-commerce kingdom is Amazon and eBay.
At the time, Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, was sitting on the stage. When he saw the map, he said to the host: “Your map is wrong.” He says:
“The biggest part of the map has to be uncharted territory. The map right now makes the internet world look like a zero-sum game, but it’s not. We’re breaking new ground and creating value, not taking it away from others.”
The bigger the scope of the world you see, the bigger your chances are. Some time ago, in the process of communicating with other colleagues, my leader inadvertently said a sentence: If you want to make this thing happen, then you must do more. It seems that this is somewhat different from the attitude of contemporary migrant workers. But this sentence really moved me. Many people like to clarify their scope of work, and they either don’t care or dare not care about the things after the scope. It’s all about getting the job done, but is a job just a job? Most people do.
I still have a little bit of a different idea. Working and sleeping are probably the two biggest things in my life. It’s hard for me not to look at them as life itself. So in the face of work, I hope that I will like it, and then I hope that I have the ability to choose a job that I like; in the face of sleep, I will buy a comfortable pillow and live in a comfortable space. In this way, for more than half of my life, I am likely to be happy. If I am happy for 2/3 of my life, it is hard for me to say that I have not read a happy life.
So, how do you think about scope? It is dynamic, optional, uncertain, and even full of unknowns. There is a very popular advertisement, the size of the heart, the size of the stage. This sentence does not make sense.
Zuckerberg made Facebook, now Zhang Yiming made TikTok, and Musk made Tesla. These things do not exist in our original cognition. Zhang Xiaolong predicted the value of QR codes many years ago. Today, scanning the code when going out, scanning the code for payment, and scanning the code for nucleic acid has become a habitual state of life.
When Mr. Mei Yiqi talked about education, he talked about the method of learning:
The scope of knowledge is broad and should not be too narrow, so that we can obtain a balanced and unbiased concept of the so-called outlook on life.
If you grasp the scope, you can grasp the life well.
Recommended this month
“Desperate Lawyer”. I still prefer to call him a desperate lawyer, not a coquettish lawyer. I just finished “Breaking Bad” in two months, and I’m going to spend another two months watching “Breaking Bad”. After a rough calculation, each drama has 63 episodes, each episode is about 45 minutes, and the two dramas consume a total of about 100 hours of life.
Those 100 hours were unforgettable.
If you were given 100 hours of concentration, what would you do?
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