Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits-habit5.php
If you're like most people, you probably seek first to be understood; you want to get your point across. And in doing so, you may ignore the other person completely, pretend that you're listening, selectively hear only certain parts of the conversation or attentively focus on only the words being said, but miss the meaning entirely. So why does this happen? Because most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. You listen to yourself as you prepare in your mind what you are going to say, the questions you are going to ask, etc. You filter everything you hear through your life experiences, your frame of reference. You check what you hear against your autobiography and see how it measures up. And consequently, you decide prematurely what the other person means before he/she finishes communicating. Do any of the following sound familiar? 

Instead of reacting to or worrying about conditions over which they have little or no control, proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The imagination of nature is greater than the imagination of man. - Richard Feynman

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. - Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

If product development has one truism, it is this: You won't be able to be all things to all market segments in a single product release. - Making It Big In Software

The marketplace is the driving force behind everything we do. - Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO

Valuable software always make it possible to do something more easily and more quickily than possible without it. - Making It Big In Software

Most important, is the user connection. The customer, especially the sophisticated customer, is a key participant in most successful experimenting processes. - Gustavo Duarte

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/Reality-Driven-Development

But software projects are not after "empirical reality", we just want working products. Built to Last deftly relates experiments to process in a chapter entitled "Try a Lot of Stuff and Keep What Works":

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Technology is a means to get something done. One needs to find something worth doing, a problem worth solving and then choose the technology that should back that up. - Satya

If you’ve found what to work on, as in a domain (or) a problem to solve, it’s fine with what technology you’ve chosen.

http://satyaq.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/how-to-choose-software-projects-to-work-on/

Instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. - Clayton M. Christensen

http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/pr

抬頭不如低頭,高調不如低調。- 子浩

主要讲述了:低调做人,是一种品格,一种姿态,一种风度,一种修养,一种胸襟,一种智慧,一种谋略,是做人的最佳姿态。低调做人的人懂得:才高而不自谕,位高而不自傲。做人不可过于显露自己,不要自以为是,更不该自吹自擂。
低调做人的人知道:要想赢得友谊,就必须平和待人;要想赢得成功,赢得世人的敬仰,就必须学会低调做人。

人類本身便是“人生”這一出戲的編劇、導演和演員。自編自導自演。要如何把機器人的日子變成有意義的生活?- 草莓