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2023 Study Summary

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The author reflects on their low study efficiency and lack of focus and discipline. They express confusion about their future life, including settling in a city, managing relationships with family, and planning their career. They plan to find a career that allows them to explore different lifestyles, address concerns with their family, seek career planning advice, and use time management software. They also discuss their newfound interest in fashion and how they have learned to appreciate clothing styles, fabrics, and their combinations. The author shares insights on the importance of work-life balance, managing up as a junior, and the significance of design review in comparison to code review. They also discuss the potential of Web3 technology to address issues like content moderation, data ownership, and rewarding creators. The author acknowledges challenges in Web3 adoption, such as the focus on speculative value rather than product utility and the need for user understanding. They also mention their interest in podcasts, including "硅谷101," "web3 101," "纵横四海," and "Planet Money." The author concludes by mentioning their use of Chatgpt for various purposes, such as machine translation, proofreading, data extraction, business plan writing, learning new skills, code completion, and coding questions.

Overview#

  • The learning efficiency this year is not very high, I am not focused enough, and my self-discipline is not good. I am always distracted/restless/unable to concentrate.
    • Confusion about future life: which city to settle in, how to handle relationships with family, future career planning.
    • Other topics of concern: how to better manage social interactions, how to improve learning efficiency.
  • Next steps
    • Find a career that allows me to explore different lifestyles.
    • Write down specific concerns about family, think about solutions, and discuss them directly with family members.
    • Try career planning consultation.
    • Use time management software TickTick to track my time.

Dress#

  • I used to not pay much attention to dressing, but I hurriedly caught up at the end of this year! Learning to dress well is also learning to find joy and understand others' tastes in daily life.
  • The main sources of reference are Male Fashion Advice on Reddit and fashion dressing up hosts I have collected on Bilibili.
  • Insights
    • Now I look at clothes in the following order: style, fabric, and how they match my existing clothes.
    • From the perspective of fabric, the cost-effectiveness of many popular domestic and foreign brands/chain stores is not very high. Learning about fabric basics and the prices of industry-leading products is useful for evaluating clothing prices.
      • For example, Bosideng, Canada Goose, Lululemon, Uniqlo, which focus on using high-quality materials.

Career#

  • Work-Life-Balance without a good system is short-lived; the system here must be trustless, without the need to trust or rely on your +1 +2.
  • Junior learns to manage up, laying the foundation for becoming a senior and managing juniors in the future.
  • Design review >> code review; reaching consensus is more important than how to achieve consensus (analogous to crypto protocol).
  • R&D must have a good product manager; no human errors, only bad products (from "Design of everyday things"). Engineers who underestimate product experience design are not good engineers.
  • What not to do in code review?
    • E2E test case -> should be done in design review.
    • Any nitpick like code style -> should be enforced by automatic tools in CI/CD.
  • What to do in code review?
    • Maintainability
      • Module tree & information hiding & comments.
      • Integration & unit tests & code not covered by tests.
    • Observability
      • Logging levels, traces, metrics -> are they actionable ???
    • Results of benchmark/stress/performance tests, if any.
    • Satisfying & acceptable >> perfectionism.

Web3#

  • Many people say this is a scam/buzzword.
  • But based on my learning and understanding so far this year, I feel that it is meaningful, although the entire industry is still in its infancy.
  • Pain points of web2 and what web3 may solve
    • Content moderation: Once the content is on the chain, there will always be a way to see the original content, which cannot be deleted or tampered with.
    • Data ownership: Easier platform/ecosystem migration, data won't be completely lost if the web2 platform bans the user. At the same time, data privacy can be improved, and user profiles that do not require KYC can be naturally desensitized through DID.
    • Reward for creators/tokenomics: In general, the benefit distribution of web3 products is more inclined towards content creators, which motivates good content creators to interact in the web3 ecosystem.
  • Apart from the technical difficulties, there are still the following challenges
    • Currently, most web3 users are more interested in speculative value than the actual usage value of the product. Gaming and DeFi are the hottest in web3 for this reason.
      • Many users don't understand anything and only care about making money. When Binance and FTX have problems, the general public still thinks that crypto/web3 should be approached with caution, without realizing that these two are fundamentally centralized and have nothing to do with web3/blockchain.
      • On the other hand, web3 social development, which values real users rather than speculative users, is not going well. However, social/crowd-sourced products are actually suitable for decentralization.
    • Financing aspect
      • Some teams are just looking to make a quick profit and then run away.
      • AI is currently attracting the attention of major investors, and web3 seems to have difficulty raising funds without integrating AI.
    • Web3 based on blockchain itself requires a certain level of user understanding.
    • Government regulation issues.

Podcast#

Why#

  • To protect my eyes and obtain information without using my eyes.
  • Make better use of my time during walks and commutes.
  • The main distribution method of information flow today is recommendation algorithms, but they have the following problems
    • Echo Chamber: If used well, it can quickly find people with the same mindset. If not controlled properly, it can lead to a narrow view and a lack of understanding of the thoughts of other psychological groups, which hinders a comprehensive understanding of issues and phenomena.
    • Web2: Platforms with recommendation algorithms, such as Xiaohongshu and Douyin, mainly monetize through advertisements. The recommended information contains a lot of unwanted content.
    • Fragmented content: Many things have not been processed and refined through thinking, while podcasts have more in-depth discussions and ideas.

Subscriptions#

  • Silicon Valley 101
    • Format: The host interviews industry leaders on a specific topic.
    • Although mainly targeted at Silicon Valley investors, I highly recommend it. The discussions are both deep and broad, and the host has insights. It is helpful for understanding future trends in the world.
    • Interestingly, I have received recommendations for this podcast from different channels around me.
  • Web3 101
    • It is a subprogram of Silicon Valley 101, with the same format, focusing on discussions related to crypto/web3. It is full of practical knowledge and can be rewarding for beginners.
  • Zonghengsihai (Across the Four Seas)
    • The host shares thoughts and opinions after reading a book. Each episode is packed with information and is quite long, suitable for serious listening and learning. I highly recommend it personally.
  • Planet Money: Understand the money and the world
    • Each episode is a discussion on a different economic topic by different hosts, covering the world. The episodes are relatively short, and listening to them is both rewarding and relaxing.
  • Others that are also recommended
    • Zero to One: Interviews with founders from various industries.
    • Questioning Youth
    • Huzuo Huzuo (Jumping Left and Right)

RSS this year (generated by Chatgpt from my opml)#

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