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- 469Aug 30, 20181 minlife
Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work
Work often fundamentally conflicts with family life. If you don't set limits and design your life, companies and governments will drain you. Balance should occasionally be within your reach. Life is diverse; seizing the right moment can yield significant returns from small investments.
Read more → - 470Aug 28, 20182 minpsychology
Energy-level Playbook
There are four levels of energy: zombie, robot, human and rock star. Zombies had better not work or do little chore work. Robots do preset work. Humans do exploratory work. Rock stars can do anything and the best job for them is creative jobs.
Read more → - 471Aug 28, 20182 minpsychology
Energy Level Playbook
Energy levels can be divided into four categories: Zombie, Robot, Mortal, and Transcendent. What can you do in each of these states? Zombie: Don't work or do mindless tasks; Robot: Do preset tasks; Mortal: Engage in exploratory work; Transcendent: Innovate.
Read more → - 472Aug 27, 20182 minwealth
Scarcity: How We Fall into Poverty and Busyness
How to break free from the trap of being busy and poor: drive yourself to do important things; conserve cognitive bandwidth; start acting when resources and bandwidth are abundant, applying cognitive bandwidth to what truly matters; transform fragmented but necessary reminders into one-time actions; maintain slack to handle unforeseen events; plan tasks reasonably and proceed in stages.
Read more → - 473Aug 26, 20181 minwealth
Chen Zhiwu: The Three Dimensions of Wealth Creation Ability
Depth: The things that can be produced in a unit of time; Breadth: The expansion or innovation of the market's geographical scope across regions and countries, creating new industries such as consumer goods, industrial varieties, and spatial expansion; Length: Time dimension - financial securities.
Read more → - 474Aug 24, 20181 minwealth
What are the basic competitive strategies?
There are three types of competitive strategies: Cost Leadership Strategy - having lower costs than competitors; Differentiation Strategy - highlighting the differences between your products and those of competitors; Focus Strategy - providing specific services to a particular group of customers.
Read more → - 475Aug 24, 20182 minmarket
How to Determine if There Are Low-Hanging Fruits in the Market?
The effective market price is entirely determined by the balance of supply and demand. If you want to achieve excess returns, do not choose an efficient market, as demand can quickly find supply. Inefficient markets have prices but no market; unless you have complete control over the supply and can negotiate freely. The better low-hanging fruits are the insufficient equilibria in efficient markets.
Read more → - 476Aug 22, 20181 minmarket
Internet Trends 2018
How does enterprise software achieve success? Build amazing products. Leverage virality to grow adoption at low costs. Harvest individual users for enterprise go-to-market. Build an enterprise-grade platform and ecosystem. Keep low-cost customer acquisition and a strong business model.
Read more → - 477Aug 21, 20183 minsystem design
What Can You Discuss in a Soft Skills Interview?
Without the ability to express oneself at the same skill level, job opportunities can be taken away. The essence of an interview revolves around three questions: Can you do it or not; Do you want to do it or not; Are you a good fit or not. The five discussion points in an interview are: Adversity; Influence; Technical proficiency; Fit; Achievements. How to prepare for these five discussion points: Engage with more people, accumulate experiences, learn more technical skills, and be good at research.
Read more → - 478Aug 18, 20181 minpsychology
Cognitive biases
Cognitive bias codex refers to procedures of the brain such as what should be remembered from memories. For things without enough information, brains imagine things to fill in characteristics. When there is too much information, we are drawn to notice something has changed.
Read more → - 479Aug 16, 20185 minweb
Web App Delivery Optimization
There are two golden rules for web app delivery optimization. One is to minimize latency and the other is to minimize payload. We also have some advice for applying protocol-specific optimizations.
Read more → - 480Aug 16, 20182 mineconomics
How Does the Economic Machine Work?
In the economic growth curve, productivity rises steadily, and moderate "credit" helps improve productivity. Under the control of the central bank, the short-term debt cycle generally lasts 5-8 years, but when people borrow without repaying, it leads to long-term debt accelerating beyond income, forming a long-term debt cycle. When the debt burden becomes too heavy and reaches the peak of long-term debt, the economy enters a deleveraging period.
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About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
