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In the blink of an eye, Q2 is coming to an end, and I have been unemployed for nearly half a year.
What did Q2 do
During this period of time, I feel like I have done a lot of things, but I feel that I have not done anything, just like when I was at work; this shows that most of the time I did not devote myself wholeheartedly, but just floated on the surface and entered my heart without enjoyment. Flow status – busy!
It may be a bit heavy to say “busy”, after all, I am doing things for myself or our small family, but without a clear sense of purpose and a real sense of control, it really makes me feel uncomfortable…
The reason for this situation, I think, has a lot to do with the start of selling sugar water, which disrupted the rhythm I formed in Q1——
Even though I am at home almost every day, I still maintain the same schedule as when I go to work. I wake up naturally at seven or eight in the morning, go directly to the study and turn on the computer when I leave the bedroom door, and start the day’s “work”. Before; turn off the lights and go to bed between 10:30 and 11:30 in the evening.
The difference from when I go to work is that I usually only “work” for four days on weekdays. On the remaining day, I choose a day with good weather to go hiking (in the mountains), practice my “runaway Hangzhou” plan, and shoot videos as much as possible To record and commemorate.
Whether it is writing an article or writing code, you have to spend time at the beginning to supplement relevant information into your brain, and establish a thinking (attention) circuit and space, so that you can enter the state of doing things.
When doing things, it takes a lot of time to ensure the continuity of the circuit and the integrity of the space. Every interruption is equal to the destruction of the circuit and space. When restarting, it takes time to repair it before entering the state again.
During the running-in period of selling sugar water, the frequency of interruptions increased significantly, and the time originally used to write articles or codes was taken up so much that the original rhythm has been messed up. Until now, I have not adjusted myself and formed a new one. Rhythm.
Since selling sugar water, I have basically stopped writing diaries and weekly reports, and the number of times I go hiking has also decreased.
Runaway Hangzhou
I hiked a total of 6 times in Q2. If I follow the previous rhythm, it should be more than 10 times. In the two months after selling sugar water, I only hiked twice.
” Runaway Hangzhou ” video series
The reduction in the number of hikes is also related to the climate in Hangzhou during this period – the probability of rains around Qingming increases, and it also enters the Meiyu period in June.
When we go hiking on the mountain or beside the mountain where there are not many people, in addition to the skinks we often encounter, we will always see millipedes crossing the trail on the ground, and millipedes climbing up along the silk threads hanging from the branches. insect.
When walking the route of ” Shili Longji “, we encountered four snakes on the road from Longmen Mountain to Baizijian, and three of them were discovered by me. 
Didn’t see it, the other one was the opposite.
After finding a snake on a tree trunk next to a promenade, I didn’t dare to breathe. The bird called me quietly, and then fled quickly; pimples up…
my family She is timid by nature, and the skink that appears and disappears under her feet is enough to make her tremble, and those insects make her feel uncomfortable, let alone the potentially deadly snake, her soul will fly.
For this reason, to protect The young heart of the snake will not go to the mountains that few people walk before the snake hibernates. Because from experience, the chances of encountering those animals on the mountain roads that are often visited by people will be greatly reduced.
In fact, just speaking of my own words, the experience of encountering a snake this time did not make me think about avoiding it as much as possible in the future. After all, I am a bold and exciting person, and I am more willing to take risks for novelty – I want to see it in Wuchao Mountain Seeing red foxes and wild boars, I really want to try river tracing and rock climbing.
After walking the ” West Lake Puppy Line “, I bought two backpacks one after another—— I used Aonijie 5L off-road backpack (with Mogaodi 2L water bag ) and I used Decathlon Quechua 17L hiking backpack (with 2L water bag).
We used only one backpack for hiking before, and it was a non-professional backpack that we bought for nearly ten years. It could neither meet the needs well nor provide a good carrying experience——
Since you have to carry supplies for two people, plus other items, the overall weight is relatively heavy. If you carry it for a long time, your shoulders will become red and you will be easily injured.
home business
After setting up a stall for the first time , I felt that selling sugar water should be considered together with what I wanted to do, and make overall plans at a large level-this is actually a family-based entrepreneurship. The “business person in charge” of what you do.
public and private
I am a person who likes and is good at distinguishing (distinguishing). I hate the state of ambiguity and chaos. Things that have their own chaos like family entrepreneurship should be separated from “public” and “private” as early as possible.
The most difficult thing is the switch of identity and related way of thinking——
As a husband and wife in life, when getting along, you should be emotional rather than rational, and there are many small things that don’t need (too much) care; but starting a business is work, and you are a partner or colleague at work. In order to get things done, you must be led by reason. Any possible The little things that lead to loss and failure have to be accounted for.
The biggest advantage of a husband and wife partnership is unconditional trust and endurance, but the biggest disadvantage is that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between public and private, and differences in life or work are likely to affect the other side.
At first, every now and then I would remind Don’t talk about emotions at work, but it doesn’t work.
Such a request may be difficult Yes——she is a person with rich emotions who needs to be cared for and guided, unlike the overly rational “logic monster” like me who seems a bit cold “biochemical robot”.
Based on the most basic values, we regard other people as living people, rather than various forms of symbols, so we want to gather those who agree with us to facilitate better interaction and communication.
At present, the WeChat ecosystem is the most suitable for us, so we decided to develop our business with WeChat as the center.
In addition, from the perspective of entrepreneurship, I regard the family as a company, and I want to handle things related to entrepreneurship (work) through enterprise office software. The most friendly to our business is the enterprise WeChat that can open up with the WeChat ecosystem!
After research and pondering, uncertified companies have many restrictions and cannot meet the needs. They plan to use WeChat instead of corporate WeChat to operate before the business starts to get on the right track.
Uncle Lei’s me
I want to do a lot of things, but in order to be successful, I have to do subtraction and focus; with the help of thinking about family entrepreneurship, I reorganized and determined my own business——
As an “anti-chaos engineer” who focuses on the lifestyle field, he explores ways of thinking and practical methods to improve life experience in order to eliminate chaos in life as much as possible. At present, it can be roughly summarized as follows:
- Advocating the idea of ” knowledge-driven ” to guide daily life and work;
- Create your own smart home with the help of Web, AI, IoT and other technologies and devices;
- Learn about the city and experience local life in depth with the tourist mentality.
My core idea is to focus on “people”, to conduct research on the elements that are closely related to everyone’s life, such as individuals, families, and communities, and to provide corresponding goods and services.
This is my most important career, that is, ” Uncle Lei’s Life Research “. When it is realized, it will inevitably develop application software by itself. Some software models generated during this process will become products/commodities of my sideline business.
Before actually forming goods and services and then bringing us income, I have to spread my ideas and ideas through self-media and gain some people’s approval, mainly using articles and videos as carriers.
When doing things according to the rhythm before selling sugar water, video editing, subtitles, etc. are all done by For processing, I basically just provide ideas and final acceptance, so that I have more time to write articles or codes.
However, I have to deal with the post-production of the video after selling sugar water, which usually takes two or three days.
Combining various factors, judging from the results, I hardly wrote any code afterwards, all of which were written in April before the sale of sugar water, and did not do anything:
- The website theme Lime implements a slot-like mechanism to improve the customizability of the page structure, preset article lists, 404 and other common pages, and released a simple version;
- The thousands of reading materials and drama-related data accumulated over the years are deployed as an open database , which also includes hiking route information independent from the notes.
In order to enhance the audio-visual effect, I recently bought a lavalier microphone, tripod + mobile phone holder, fill light, etc.:
video capture equipment
My target group is not limited to domestic, but also overseas, and the audience of Bizhan is basically in the mainland, so the video works will be synchronized to YouTube .
Ginger
Her business is to study how to make delicious food, so that more people can taste her handicrafts, and make them feel happy at least at the moment of eating, forming the brand of ” Jiang Jiang’s Handmade Cuisine “.
From ” One Month in Home Business: Setting up a Stall ” and ” One Month in Home Business: Improvements “, you can understand the experience and thinking of selling sugar water in the first month. After that, we have made some other improvements:
- When setting up a stall, it is not convenient to count spare parts inventory, sales, sales records, etc., so I simply developed a web version of the ” Stall Assistant ” to solve the problem, and in the future I will create a mobile application that can synchronize data to the home management system ;
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A handwritten label will be attached to each online order to indicate which item it is. Later, I bought a label printer , which can not only improve efficiency, but also print more content on the label, such as brand name and QR code, etc., which can be Further cost reduction by replacing previous stickers ;
- The sugar water bottom has been changed from freshly added to pre-packaged in special packaging, so that when setting up a stall, the delivery speed can be increased without making customers wait too long, and they can also decide how much sugar water to add to the bowl;
- Small refrigerators and larger coolers have been added to handle larger orders.
what did you learn
In the past six months, especially in Q2, I have grown a little bit in cognition——
hexagon warrior
The so-called “hexagonal warrior” can be simply understood as “a player with comprehensive and excellent abilities in a certain aspect”. I have a deeper feeling about this when I am doing freelance exploration.
“Independent creators” such as independent developers and independent photographers need to have the ability to undertake the entire process of work production alone, rather than division of labor and collaboration in a team.
Regardless of my identity as a software developer, I am also an independent creator in terms of self-media, especially for relatively more complicated video production. I am responsible for and complete planning, scripting, directing, shooting, performance, Dubbing, editing, etc.
It takes a lot of time and energy to make a slightly qualified work.
This is only from the perspective of the creator. From the perspective of an entrepreneur, creation is only for production, and marketing and operation have to be done to make the work bring economic benefits; therefore, it is not helpful to promote transactions. Works are a failure.
The society after the Industrial Revolution has entered a period of general assembly line and detailed division of labor. People are “domesticated” by their employers, resulting in castration in ability and limited thinking. It is difficult to break through the confinement and transform into a “hexagonal warrior”.
However, in the initial stage of low-cost entrepreneurship, it can be said that it is necessary to forge yourself into a “hexagonal warrior”.
experience mentality
The mentality of experience is the ability to not be attached to the result, to feel the present and the process, and to be calm and calm.
When encountering setbacks, people often have negative reactions such as irritability, sadness, anger, and blaming themselves or others, which are all caused by focusing on results; Make waves.
This way of coping will not only avoid (excessive) negative emotions, but also stimulate a problem-solving-oriented learning mentality, reflect on failures and learn from them, and then improve yourself.
I learned this skill after encountering Waterloo for the first time when setting up a stall, which made me resistant to setbacks, and I didn’t care so much about more Waterloo after that.
The problem-solving-oriented learning mentality inspired by the experience mentality has also strengthened my sensibility and sense of participation in life-the things that I didn’t want to do in my life in the past, I escaped if I could, and now I am willing to try something I don’t want to do. something against the principle.
A few days ago, the toilet was clogged, and the kitchen drain was also clogged, and the water would overflow, which brought great inconvenience to life.
Originally, this kind of thing would make me irritated. I didn’t want to deal with it myself, but spent money to find someone to solve it. On the one hand, I wanted to reduce my expenditure because of unemployment, so I was forced to try it myself first.
The toilet is relatively easy, and it is done with a dredger left by my uncle who pumps air in the water.
The kitchen sewer pipe is not so simple. The pipes in my house are very long, and there is no trap in sight. Neither the strong alkali dredger nor the wire spring dredger bought now will work!
Later, when I thought about it, I was really a little sick and went to the doctor in a hurry-because of lack of relevant knowledge, I didn’t analyze the problem and choose the appropriate method to solve it.
After checking some information, I feel that the pipeline at home is very long, and it is difficult to observe and check the situation of the blockage. The best way should be to keep hitting it with water until it is cleared.
Among the information I found, there are staged air pressure-driven “one shot” and continuous water pressure-driven unknown “artifacts” that can achieve this effect-I think the latter is likely to solve the problem fundamentally.
In the past, I bought a “one shot” to unclog the toilet. After many years, I took a few shots on the kitchen sewer pipe with the attitude of trying it out. Although the problem was not completely solved, it did have some effect. It relieved temporarily. I am waiting for the new one I just bought. Let’s see if the “artifact” can be completely solved.
After that, I don’t reject such “bad things” anymore, and I don’t find others if I can handle them myself. I learn knowledge and hone my skills, and become a “life engineer”. Maybe I can survive on these things in the future.
mind games
In the articles ” Love Yourself: How to (Part 1) “, ” Love Yourself: How to (Part 2) ” and ” Love Yourself: How to (Part 2) “, I basically expounded my lower-level ideas. Now I really feel more and more that life is a mind game-unless in a state of unconsciousness, there is a mental contest with others or yourself all the time.
Humans are animals with self-awareness, and it is this self-awareness that immerses people in the illusions it creates and makes it difficult to break free-the self-righteous “objectivity” and “essence”, and the “I think” that hurts people without knowing it etc.
A person’s spiritual world constructed by self-consciousness is naturally an illusion, and a society composed of an individual should be a huge illusion. Currency, goals, ideals, culture, countries, etc. are all products of illusion.
If the strength or power of a person’s spiritual world is regarded as magic, then the interaction between people is a confrontation with magic, and whoever is better can make the other party bend their will and obey.
Magical attacks are more obvious, such as negotiation and persuasion, and some are attacked without knowing it, such as some chronic psychological manipulation methods-creating the environment is the most common.
Love, education, collaboration, business, everything, is a magic attack—one uses one’s self-awareness to influence another’s self-awareness in order to achieve one’s own goals.
In addition to competing with others, the opponent may also be yourself, such as when thinking about “should it be” or self-comfort——
Due to the general environment, the number of people setting up stalls has increased, the market is flooded and there is a trend of cutting leeks, and tourists have become more cautious in consumption, so that the sales of our stalls are going from bad to worse.
Coupled with the unstable online orders, the days when I can earn income from my own business are far away. The anxiety that couldn’t be regulated and dissipated came back to me – wanting me to go back to work.
At first, I resolutely refused. How could I, who pursued freedom and finally returned to the wild state, obediently go back and be raised in captivity? ! impossible! This is absolutely impossible!
But if I persist, it may have a devastating impact on our little family, but I can’t kill myself, so what should I do?
When I was worried about the stalemate, I got the idea by accident—why not treat the company I was employed as my client and work as a special part-time job? In this way, the major problems that were originally a headache will no longer exist!
This is a wonderful example of me as an entrepreneur in my self-awareness making me, as a worker, distort my will and obey!
epilogue
From next month, while unswervingly exploring my career, I will try to find a full-time job and continue to work; no matter what, at least the hurdle in my heart is over, it depends on whether there is a company that is suitable for each other up.
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