Weekly Reading Summary: Nov.09-Nov.15, 2020

认知,最重要的不是知识(knowledge),而是致知(knowing)。毕竟,我们将卓越的知识定义为由卓越的致知行为产生的任何知识。“致知决定知识”。

苹果公司不允许恶棍在电影中使用 iPhone。因此,如果您正在看一部新电影并且角色拥有 iPhone,那么他们就不是坏人,这算是剧透吗?
– 《苹果和流行文化》

那些貌似陈陋不堪的“礼“,包含着宗法亲缘,包含着思念和孝悌。那几张黄纸,那一摊烬余,可能是我们沟通阴阳,遥寄思念最好的方式。 —网文,谈祭奠烧纸

生命是一袭华美的袍,爬满了虱子。 -张爱玲

每个人都是月亮,总有一个阴暗面,从来不让人看见。 -马克-吐温

丰田公司的一个决策原则是,做决定的不是等级最高的人,而是最接近正在发生的事情的人。丰田公司认为,决策时掌握的实践知识越多,决策就会越好。 –《丰田之道》

快能力与慢能力: 美国著名投资家芒格(Charles Munger)是巴菲特的合伙人,以投资思想丰富而著称。

我想分享他的一段话,普通人应该怎么找到自己的竞争力。

如果你想成为一流的网球运动员,你很快就会发现,这是没有希望的。 但是,如果你想成为一流的水暖工,那么大部分人都可以做到。只要具有意志,坚持下去了解这个行业,精通手艺,假以时日,这是可以实现的目标。

无法成为网球明星,但是在其他领域,你可以慢慢发展自己的竞争力。这种竞争力,一部分来自你的内在因素(兴趣、学习能力、毅力、纪律性等等),另一部分来自通过工作的缓慢积累。

芒格的意思是,普通人当不了职业的网球运动员,主要原因是体育竞争力无法慢慢积累,你必须在很短的时间内(三四年?),就达到一个很高的竞技水平,这种模式更像冲刺。 但是,水暖工不需要冲刺,你只要持之以恒,水平自然就会提升。20年以后,你肯定是一个优秀的水暖工。

换句话说,体育竞争力是一种”快能力”,强调快速形成;水暖工是一种”慢能力”,有可能通过积累而获得。

“快能力”更多地取决于天赋或外部条件,所以普通人不容易成功;”慢能力”则是取决于后天的努力,可以用时间来换。

芒格建议,如果没有天赋,就尽量选择”慢能力”的行业,这样你才有机会通过日复一日的积累做到优秀。

 

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Weekly Reading Summary: Aug. 31-Sep. 06, 2020

  • The Economist August 29, 2020
    • Regimes that rule by fear, live in fear.
    • To get a release in China, movies must avoid the “three Ts” of Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet.
    • It is strictly enforcing rules that require co-productions to have at least one-third of their investment from Chinese partners, at least one scene shot in China and a cast that is at least one-third Chinese.
    • Foreign studios also discovered co-production. Movies made in partnership with a Chinese company qualify as domestic and are thus exempt from the quota system.
    • In 2005 China had 4,000 theatre screens, slightly more than Britain at the time. Last year it had nearly 70,000, according to Omdia, a market-research company, almost equal to America and Europe combined.
    • Until China reforms the way that hospitals are financed, even doctors with “good hearts” will face pressure to earn revenues for their department (and performance-related pay for themselves and their colleagues) by over-prescribing drugs, tests and surgical operations.
    • For years China’s priority has been shiny high-speed trains, Olympic stadiums and aircraft-carriers to awe the world. A true superpower would build a health system to match.
    • China has more people with dementia than any other country—an estimated 9.5m people (it includes Taiwan in its total).
    • Japan has the world’s oldest people, with 28% of the population aged 65 and over and 2.4m people over 90, including more than 70,000 centenarians. (In America, with a population two and a half times as big, 16% of the population are 65 or over, and there are 97,000 centenarians.)
    • Care work is undervalued, underpaid, emotionally draining and physically exhausting. Yet it is, in my view, highly skilled. It requires enormous maturity and resilience; deep wells of kindness, too.
    • The rooftop solar industry stands to benefit from a new Californian mandate that requires new homes to install panels on their roofs from this year.
    • Greater Seoul is home to half of South Korea’s population and to the vast majority of attractive jobs, schools and entertainment options.
    • Under a jeonse contract, the tenant pays the landlord a deposit of between 60% and 80% of the purchase price to live rent-free for two years.
    • No one wants to see a sudden house-price crash at a time when the economy is already suffering a pandemic-induced slowdown. The economic fallout from the virus could curtail household incomes. That might delay the economic recovery as people cut back on their spending in order to service their loans, although interest-rate cuts should provide some relief.

那些多长几岁或者某方面小有建树的人,很容易犯一个毛病:“排斥异己”,抵制与自己相左的观点和新知识,这种现象也被称为“功能性文盲”。

诺贝尔经济学奖获得者弗里德曼曾说过:“花自己的钱办自己的事,最为经济;花自己的钱给别人办事,最有效率;花别人的钱为自己办事,最为浪费;花别人的钱为别人办事,最不负责任。”

认知,最重要的不是知识(knowledge),而是致知(knowing)。毕竟,我们将卓越的知识定义为由卓越的致知行为产生的任何知识。“致知决定知识”。

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