On Mark Zuckerberg's Meta

The transition from Facebook to Meta will be the one of the essentials business case studies ever, 

Although critics and difficulties are everywhere, and everyone believes Mark Zuckerberg made a dumb move.

Mark Zuckerberg really know what he is doing here, this is the essenses of entrepreneurship, take it to the next level.

There will always be difficulties, risk and pushiment, 

if you start with nothing you lose less, even less critics more encouragements.

In Mark's case, you start resources, you lose more, you face more critics, your moves are studied more.

But Mark is a good case of an entrepreneur that really didn't settle(no one would admit they settled, until they look back)

高卢战记 - 中文翻译

1

在高卢,有三个地方,一部分住着贝尔盖人,另一部分住着阿奎塔尼人,最后一部分住着自称凯尔特人的高卢人。他们之间的语言、文化和法律都不一样。高卢人住在中间,跟阿奎塔尼人以加龙河为界,跟贝尔盖人则以马恩河和塞纳河为界。


所有人里面,贝尔盖人最勇敢。因为他们离罗马文明最远,很少有商人过去,所以他们没有那些让人丧失斗志的奢侈品。而且,他们还经常跟住在莱茵河对岸的日耳曼人打仗,高卢人中的艾杜人也很勇敢,也是因为他们每天都跟日尔曼人战斗,有时是日尔曼人进攻他们,有时是他们主动去进攻日尔曼人。高卢的领地从罗纳河开始一直往北,直到加龙河和大西洋。贝尔盖人在旁边,莱茵河上的整个高卢东北部都属于他们。阿奎塔尼人住在西南部,领土从加龙河往西开始,直到比利牛斯山和西班牙处的大西洋。


2

赫菲提人里,有一人财富和地位远超其他人,他叫奥杰托利。

在马库斯·梅萨拉和马库斯·毕索担任执政官期间,想要当国王的他,在贵族中发起了一场阴谋,他说服了所有人离开家园,另找新地方居住。赫菲提人相信自己是高卢最优秀的部落,希望能统一全高卢。而众人之所以轻易被说服,是因为赫菲提人的地盘四面都被山川河流所包围。先是深不见底的莱茵河隔开了日尔曼人;再是高大的茱拉山隔开了塞广尼人;还有日内瓦湖和罗纳河隔开了罗马行省。有这样的地形,发动战争十分困难,好战的他们深感不满。他们认为自己人口众多、军队强大,觉得领土太小了,只有240英里长,180英里宽。


3 


种种原因,加上奥杰托利的演说,赫菲提人开始准备迁移。

他们买了很多的牲畜与车辆,种下了很多的谷物,确保路途中食物充足,他们还与附近的部落和平相处,并认为两年时间足以做好准备,于是乎通过法案于第三年出发。大家选了奥杰托利负责迁移,并担任外交使者。这期间,他说服了赛广尼王子卡斯提亚,去夺回他父亲曾拥有的王位。他父亲卡塔曼塔曾是国王,而且被元老会授予了 “罗马人之友” 的称号 。同时,他也说服了艾杜人杜木诺利去夺取王位,并把自己女儿许配给对方,这人的哥哥蒂维查库斯是现任执政官,并深得民心。为了让两人相信觉得可以轻松取得王位,他告诉两人,自己即将统治高卢最强大的部落,到时候他会用军队来帮两人达成目的。这番话以后,三人立下誓言,要彼此效忠,并希望将来三部落结盟后能够统一全高卢。



4 后来,有人说了出去,赫菲提人知道了真相。根据他们的习俗,奥杰托利要戴着镣铐,上法庭解释一切,然后接受审判,被判有罪的话就立即火刑处死。审判当日,他召集了一万名手下、家人、以及很多他以前帮助过的人,从四方八面赶到审判现场。依靠这些人的保护,他逃离了审判。大家很生气,发布了征兵令,准备强行抓奥杰托利回来受审,这时他却死了。赫菲提人认为,他为了逃避火刑而自尽了。


5

尽管发起人死了,但赫菲提人的迁移计划不变。当他们准备好了,便放火烧了所有建筑,有十二座城镇以及四百多个村庄,连私人建筑也不放过。如此一来,他们就没有退路,面对危险时只能前进到底。每人被规定要至少带足够吃三个月的食物上路,除了要带走的食物外,其他谷物通通烧毁。他们说服了附近的劳拉其、图令其和莱托菲其部落和自己一样,同样烧毁一切,一起出发。波伊人也加入了队伍,他们原本在莱茵河对面,不久前迁移到奥西亚,并攻打了罗利亚城。


6 

要走出他们的家园,有两条路。一条在莱茵河与茱拉山之间,地形崎岖,行走困难,而且窄的一辆车都只能勉强通过。还有,那里居住着赛广尼人,他们很可能会阻止迁移。另一条路则是走罗纳河,这里有几个浅滩可直接渡河,方便且简单。这条河以前分开了他们与阿洛布吉,后来被罗马征服成了行省的一部分,其中一座城镇,日内瓦,离赫菲亚很近,这里一条桥可以直达赫菲亚。赫菲亚人认为当地人会让自己借桥通过,因为他们刚被罗马征服,私底下憎恨罗马。再不行也可用武力强行通过。


Do not underestimate your Will

1 Today I talked to brave young woman who is diagnosed with a deadly disease, but fight her way out and is working hard to make her second life meaningful. I asked her a lot of questions, and the most important question I asked is "How big of a role did psychological factors play during your fight? " The answer she gave is 80%. 


Current development of AI

1 Magic are done within a second, yet it took the magician decades to master the trick. This quote fits the developments of AI perfectly, AI development started even before the Vietnamese war, yet the term only became relevant in recent years. Why? 

2 Because AI has never been developed, the famous GPT's are not actually AI, it is in fact, an guessing program that works just like how you are trying figure out what answers the teacher would wanted in an exam.  Every time it receives an instruction, it looks through the data base, and calculates which combinations of words are likely to be the correct answer to your question. 

3 Still it is very useful, first it is a good tool, more importantly it brings AI to the spotlight, which I believe would speed up it's development. However, instead of focusing on LLM, I encourage you to study AI that is based on reasoning. 

Focus

1 First thing Steve Job has done when he returned to Apple in 1997, is cutting products, from 350 products to only 10. This action has triggered many of the employees, especially engineers who take their work seriously like their own kids. Steve Job's response to this is simple "Focus, is about saying no." 

2 Two question I have been thinking about recently, first, what things would bring the most value for the world in a span of 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years? Second is what would bring me the most happiness and proud in a span of 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years? 

3 Once you've figured out you should start building habits that could contribute to achieving that goal, and then you start building momentum and habits. This is the uneasy part that requires some will power, I've build my reading habit from 30 minutes to on average 6 hours a day now, it doesn't really take any effort for me to read 6 hours a day, but at first it definitely felt uncomfortable and on the first month I am pushing myself everyday. 

 

Focus is about saying no --- Steve Jobs

1 After reading the book "The One",  I decided to throw away all my 300 books, and only allow myself to keep 7 books at a time. Doing this wasn't a easy choice for me, I feel painful just thinking of all those knowledges and stories I'd miss, but I knew it'd benefit me in long term. I also took aspiration from the Steve Jobs's cutting product lines approach when he went back to apple. I believe it will make a huge difference in how I approach reading as a form of learning. 

2 At 2023, I have built my habit of reading. From about 30 minutes a day at January to 3 hours a day in march, to almost 7 hours a day on average at August . Being so proud of myself, I bought over 100 books in last month alone, as I was so fed up with the concept of reading 1 book a day, turns out having too many books is not doing me any good. I have less motivation to read as most of the time I struggle to pick which book to read, and I actually got lazier.

Type II Civilisation before 2100

Look at this image.

It's not a full black background, somewhere in this picture that is a white dot.

And that little white dot contains everything you ever cared about, 

it is the the view of planet earth from far away space. 

I want you to think about this, someday we will lit up all those darkness. 

The question is how do we achieve that? 


Is AI going to take your job

1 If you're passionate about your job and constantly try to do a better job, not only AI is not going to take your job, it will even make you better at it. However, it will definitely change the content of your job, most of the boring, repetition works will be gone, so what's left would be mostly thinking, intense thinking. Your need to learn to observe and think, if you can learn to observe and think, you will do a very good job.

2  I'm specially worried about the future teenagers who will grow up used to having short attention span, their potential would be hindered by not being able to focus. What I recommend is actives like reading books, drawing, gardening, even organising your room. These actives train your brain to learn how to observe and think about something new. 

The Great Choice

In the past we have thought of internet as a liberator that will destroy most of the chains imposed on a man, while some of those still remain true, we are seeing another trend emerging, the liberator might turn out to be the mightiest oppressor we ever had. 

Those problems the internet promised to solve, they never came true. We asked for facts, we got opinions. We asked for connections, we got comparisons. Now, tech giants are now using the newest technologies to build the ultimate cell, the material of that cell will be their understanding of us, and we are the ones that volunteered the material.

So it's indeed a time for choosing, 1000 days later it'd be already too late, by that point they'll understand us better than we ourselves do, and we would be spiritually weakened to a point we refuse to make a change. Whatever happen in this 10,000 days will set the tone for the age of AI. 

Peace in our time

1 The art of human civilisation is the art of living together. This is my firm believe, and let me explain.

2 In the past people throw stones at each other because they want more resources to survive, they didn't wanted to but they have to or else they die. Fast forward to modern age, why are we still doing this? We discovered that we can expand outward into the space, and there might indeed a path to alchemy, or unlimited energy or resources. The art of conquering or war is no longer relevant, as putting more people under your control does not contribute to any actual benefits anymore.

3 So I say how about lets just dive into space and dig our golds? Some say this idea is naive and has complete no understanding of geopolitics or dynamics between countries. I say those people are losers who don't understand possibilities.