人生很多事情不是計劃出來

朋友說：

我開始發現, 人生很多事情不是計劃出來, 有很大部份的劃時代改變是源於, 運氣加上長年累月的修行, 兩者可能缺一不可。

「人生很多事情不是計劃出來」這段，完全同意。所以那些人說甚麼career planning或甚麼人生規劃，其實沒甚麼意思。做得到，或許只代表那些人好運，際遇能夠配合自己的想法。（又或許他們只是事後孔明，事後才說自己的規劃能夠改變際遇。）

計劃不到，並不代表甚麼也不做。訂一個方向，然後多加培養自己的長處和優勢，到機會來時，自然就會得心應手。「機會是留給準備好的人」，一般人只讀到「準備好」的意思，實情是，要先有「機會」，「準備好的人」才會有發揮的空間。

舉個極端的例子：《莊子》裡朱泙漫用盡了千金家財，花了三年工夫，學會了屠龍的技術。到他下山的時候，卻沒有地方使用。因為世上已經沒有龍了。「屠龍之技」成語背後的典故，正正說明「準備好」的先決條件，是要相信世間真的有「機會」。

Wired: Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think

Many people praised Steve Jobs these days. To me, he is just an dictator, a control freak,  with a super strong ego. In the contrast, Jeff Bezos is truly an visionary entrepreneur who focuses on every details. (in his words, overcoming small defects)

Just one example: Could you imagine Apple would sell its cloud computing service to its competitors? (That’s Netflix’s case for Amazon) Amazon is so smart. Serving and selling its cloud service to competitor is like incubating and growing up a golden goose, without using its own money! At the end of the day, it may simply take over Netflix because it is so dependent on Amazon’s structure. (like the case of Zappo, which Bezos mentioned in the interview)

Jeff Bezos is so visionary that he revolting many businesses, not limited to IT field. Starting from Kindle, I am a big fan of Amazon. ;-P

Bezos: Our first shareholder letter, in 1997, was entitled, “It’s all about the long term.” If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

In some cases, things are inevitable. The hard part is that you don’t know how long it might take, but you know it will happen if you’re patient enough. Ebooks had to happen. Infrastructure web services had to happen. So you can do these things with conviction if you are long-term-oriented and patient.

Source: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/ff_bezos/all/1

很討厭Lotus Notes

很討厭Lotus Notes。由加入官僚機構開始，我對此劣質程式的厭惡每日俱增，比IE更可惡。舉例：搜尋功能弱得不能接受………

可恨年復一年都要依這等劣程式為生。網上無奇不有，有同道中人建立了如下網站：http://www.ihatelotusnotes.com/　證明這等憎惡是世界性的。

張大春：十年不費買書錢

張大春瀟灑地說：「花錢買的書若是未曾細讀而逕束之高閣，於書、於己都是極大的浪費，而我們的習慣如此：無論甚麼事物，經眼而愛之，不免經手而買之，似以掏錢壟斷為自然而然之事。」我深有同感。不過有時買書是為了收集參考材料，或許一時間用不上，但要是參考的時候，一書在手，強過翻山越嶺、遍遊網路。而且書的資料通常較網上資料真確。

來源網站：http://blog.chinatimes.com/storyteller/archive/2011/06/23/730811.html