There’s a saying that the older you get, the faster a year passes, and it does make sense when you think about it. For a five-year-old, each year is 20% of his life, so a year like that can feel like a long time. But for a 40-year-old friend, an extra year accounted for just 2.5 percent. As a 40-year-old dad farmer, the past year of 2019 is just a blink of an eye. Maybe I can spend more time with my children on weekdays, so time can slow down a bit.

At the end of the year, I also summarized myself with a trend. Fortunately, all the major apps helped me to summarize and save a lot of time.

Reading a book

Reading this habit would also like to thank the former boss (PS: read a madman, a more than I read, really abnormal condition) to lead the way, of course, reading or gratitude had WeChat + unlimited card, in fact, I just bought a quarter WeChat infinite card, have been behind while WeChat reading activities of the wool, and now become infinite card with more than 400 days left.

Used to be slow reading, now have unlimited card after unscrupulous, read fast, and often many books read at the same time.

Speaking of reading experience, in fact, not too much, there is a book called “how to read a book” can be recommended to everyone, which mentioned the theme of reading method is very good. First choose a topic, choose the right book (Douban rating, Fan Deng reading, public account recommended channels, etc.), and then you can read multiple books at the same time.

I have deliberately done several thematic readings this year, and the recommended books on finance and personal growth are as follows:

Build personal investment and financial knowledge system through reading

Here’s an engineer’s guide to “going soft.

Reading is mainly to get the inner sense of pleasure, so do not just read the list of books recommended by others, choose their own needs, their favorite, read more classics, read less popular, reading has become my personal habit, from which I can get a lot of satisfaction.

Some people ask is reading so many books really useful? I don’t know. It is impossible to remember every word in every book, and many times when we see a book, we have to wonder if we have ever read it. Reading is just like eating when people are young. We can’t remember every meal we have eaten, but these meals have been integrated into our bodies and become muscles and blood.

When talent isn’t enough to support your dreams, read.

writing

Another harvest in 2019 is to launch the public account “Nai Dad Code Nong”. This name was actually used when I wrote the blog garden a few years ago. At that time, the child was just born and earnestly expected to be able to record, but he only wrote about ten articles on and off. The official account is indeed a very good platform for writing. Original statements, rewards, private letters from fans and so on will constantly urge you to update. Therefore, I have written nearly 50 articles in this half year unconsciously.

When I write for others, I write for myself as well. Output forces input, so I need to keep learning new things and systematically output as much as possible. I am interested in three directions: big front-end technology, investment and financial management, and personal growth.

Big front end technology

Half way through 2019, have you got all these big front-end technologies? – ok,

Half way through 2019, have you got all these big front-end technologies? – the next

Declassify the front-end technology System of BAT and other large domestic factories

Decryption of domestic BAT and other large factory front-end technology system – the end

Finance and investment

The only solution is to get rich. There is a kinship formula that leads to wealth and freedom

Build investment and financial knowledge system through reading

Rich or poor, 100-year life or curse?

Investment index fund – Buffett’s most respected way of managing money

Personal growth

How can front end engineers not be anxious?

Here’s an engineer’s guide to “going soft.

How to Live the life you Want through Principles (Part 1)

How to Live the life you Want through Principles (Part 2)

Do you really understand OKR? Here is a complete practice methodology

How programmers get better and better after 30?

There are many people ask me why I want to write an article, is not want to become a net red flow of cash and so on, of course, do not deny ah, write the public number can be rewarded, can be followed by advertising soft text, but those sporadic income is unable to support for a long time, this aspect of the input output of time and energy is very low.

Writing is a record of your feelings and experiences at that time; Writing is a kind of thinking, expressing your attitude towards things around you; Writing is an outlet for emotions and a good way to make friends.

I look forward to writing again next year. It will be fun to look back.

Finance and investment

In 2019, I stepped out of the mindset of buying money funds or medium-term financial products through Yu ‘ebao and actively embraced the stock market. Very lucky very early contact slow and E big long win plan, every week looking at meng Yan boss empirical weekly report, each period of no brain with cast long win plan, although there are inevitably losses in the process of being criticized by the leadership, but long-term persistence or harvest.

Directly stole the screenshots of E University’s long win plan to show the asset allocation and income (failed to catch up with the initial car, personal data slightly different) :

I particularly agree with E University’s investment philosophy. For most salaried people, the most ideal investment target is index fund. Buffett mentioned this point in his letter to investors 20 years ago. Be optimistic about equities for the long term, as productivity gains and technology continue to rise, and because the underlying underlying of index funds are long-term, you can avoid long-term risk by investing at low valuations.

In addition to domestic index funds, there is a small part of the US/Hong Kong stock investment, this part of the complete tuition process. Most of the stocks were bought at the height of the tech bubble in mid-2018. Tencent, Alibaba and Facebook all held on to their shares for more than two years before they were unstuck. Only Microsoft got lucky.

This lesson is very deep, first of all, I choose is I think can understand technology stocks, and each industry are worthy of No. 1, this is not too big problem, but I enter the timing is bad, tencent’s PE has over 70, when buying buy ali PE has about 50, so it is a good company, if it is too expensive is not worth buying.

Also, always be in awe of the investment world. Even Bridgewater Gold Radario has been bearish on everything in 2019, and the bulls of THE U.S. stock market have been getting real blows in the face. Tuition always has to pay, a lot of things do not experience may be unable to understand. Be patient, keep a good attitude, be greedy when others are fearful, be fearful when others are greedy, remember!

Anything else

tourism

In the past year, I have been to Hainan island twice and Kyushu, Japan, to see dolphins, take a train and see volcanoes. It is always a pleasure to travel with children, and I will find their growth is visible to the naked eye. They used to cry in the whole flight, but now they are excited and happy, pulling the suitcase by themselves, and they can see a curious world in the eyes of their childhood friends.

Before each trip, I will spend some time to do the strategy, planning in advance to find delicious, fun, so that maybe can make the happiness of travel into two parts. Travel is always short, each trip is always looking forward to the next time. Unfortunately, this year’s goal of getting out of Asia failed to materialize. Look forward to next year.

Time management

This year, I carefully read two books on time management, “The Pomodoro Method” and “Strange Life”. Both methods have been practiced and have many effects. Peculiar life emphasizes recording all time usage, and can be reviewed every week to see where time is spent. However, this method is so harsh that people dare not waste any time, and the record of entertainment time is also full of guilt, so I insist on giving up for half a year 🙁

The pomodoro technique emphasizes daily organization, concentration, and daily review, which can effectively save up large chunks of time to resist fragmentation. After a few months of hard practice, the effect is ok, after the statistics will find that the number of tomatoes you can really concentrate on every day is pitiful.

Time management is a bogus proposition. What you can really manage is your energy. What you put your energy into will come naturally over time. So manage your energy and live your life for your own goals, not for others.

Reflection summary

In 2018, I read The Principles by Radario, and in 2019, I read the biography of Zeng Guofan, in which I mentioned to regard myself as a machine, constantly comparing goals with achievements, constantly reviewing and adjusting myself.

Although the frequency of the review ranges from daily reflection to monthly summary, it has persisted for a whole year. How to slow down a year, this may be a feasible way.

Mindfulness meditation

Radario, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Kobe Bryant and many others are big fans of meditation. In fact, many years ago, I saw a harvard professor in the psychology of Happiness who took his students to do a meditation practice. I didn’t know that at the time, but years later, I found out that it was meditation.

I’m not a huge fan of meditation, and I probably don’t do it once a week, but over the long term it can make a big difference, helping people become calmer and more open to change.

If you want to try this App, you can try HeadSpace. The book written by Andy is highly recommended by Bill Gates.

Write in the last

Many people describe 2019 in one word: difficult.

2019 is a very difficult year, in which a lot of things happened, as well as many changes and departures at work. It is a year of hard training of basic skills and determination. As “the weak” a book says, the fragile often generated by sacrificing local and whole tenacious, both for the organization and for individual, all is the same, always to train the ability of own risk increasingly tough, never put all your eggs in one basket, for investment, career as well.

Finally send two sentences, I especially like words, to everyone.

Wealth depends on a few high highs, happiness on many small highsCopy the code

Goodbye 2019, hello 2020!