preface

2020 is a difficult year for China and the rest of the world. For individuals, it is extremely busy at work.

The joke used to be, “Working at our company, that’s one year, three years of experience.” In the first two years on the job, it was uttered more as a self-deprecation, but this year, it’s true. Looking back at what I have done in 2020, it seems that there is nothing left but work. Most of the plans made at the beginning of the year have been shelved because of busy work. In reading and writing, I sorted out the number of books I read this year, less than a third of last year; And few articles have been written. In particular, software technology, as the main business, has not made substantial progress, and it still feels as if it is at the level of 2019. In an industry where technology is changing so fast, is it a bad year to advance or fall back?

I’ve always believed in the principle of equal value exchange in Steel Alchemy, and since I put in so many hours of work, I’m sure I’ll get something. Think carefully, this year the harvest of the biggest, than the hone of the will.

As a software engineer, I believe everyone has a persistent pursuit of technology. Especially in the beginning of the workplace, there must have been all the relevant technical framework to learn the idea, for fear of falling behind the trend of The Times. If you had asked me in my first year on the job, “What is the most important thing for a software engineer?” “I would say,” Technology; In the second year of my work, AFTER learning some software methodology, especially domain-driven design, and combining with my work project experience, I gradually realized that software technology is always the same and business is the core of software. If I were asked the same question again, I would answer, business and technology; In my third year on the job, after going through such a difficult year in 2020, if I were asked the same question again, I would answer: will, business and technology.

The will

Has probably not experienced a very test of the will of the moment, senior high school study step by step, and then admitted to the university; Six uneventful years of college and then a career. I didn’t burn the midnight oil too many times, let alone stab him. There were twists and turns in my first two years on the job, but they were nothing worth mentioning compared to 2020. Due to the huge challenge of the new project, the time to leave work gradually delayed from the beginning of March and reached a peak in April. Even sleeping became a luxury in the last week of April. Over the course of April, it became less about software and more about willpower to tackle the new project.

I remember working through the night until 6am to solve a problem, but I still couldn’t find the cause. The mood is low, the body is tired, that moment is close to collapse. Sam said to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings:

Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights, we shouldn’t even be here. Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now.

Fold in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam: There is some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

Difficulties will pass, as long as the hope, there is no insurmountable obstacles.

As April drew to a close, so did the challenge. When walking on the way to celebrate, with the sunshine and the head-on breeze, the mouth gently raised, that moment of comfort, will never be forgotten. No one wants to repeat the experience, but it made us stronger inside, and I gained willpower from the experience.

Reading a book

Fewer books will be read in 2020 than last year, and most of them are electronic books that are read in odd hours. Software technology books are basically read on O’Reilly platform, the technical books are very new (register membership through ACM is very cost-effective, transfer door); Other humanities, science and technology are completed on wechat reading. It has to be said that wechat reading can make people make full use of all kinds of fragmented time, and the most important thing is that it can also play a hypnotic role before going to sleep. It is really an essential APP for insomnia and many dreams.

The software class
The first go-related technical book I read at the beginning of this year after I started to develop Go, which is called “Go Language Bible”. It is a must-have book for beginners from basic grammar to advanced features with rich details. Mainly through the TDD process to explain how to use Go to achieve 23 classic design patterns, which also introduces some basic knowledge of Go. The overall quality of the book is mediocre, but it is a useful opening.
The best technology book I’ve read this year, starting with the simplest database implementation, introduces the principles of the various distributed systems that are popular today. When I read it, IT really clicked. It is a beginner’s guide for architects. It not only introduces how to design a good software system, but also teaches you how to be a good Tech Leader. It is well worth reading.

Humanities and Social sciences
The author puts forward four basic principles of design:intimacy,alignment,repeat,contrast“Is great for writing powerpoint. I’ve heard about this book for a long time, and I read it this year,Only a healthy body, coupled with a peaceful state of mind, can let us live a happy life.
Always curiousaestheticWhat this subject is about, so I chose zhu Guangqian’s book On Beauty. I don’t remember much about it after I finish, but looking at a tree again reminds me to try to appreciate it aesthetically rather than just scientifically and pragmatically. Beginning in prehistoric times, stories about art and artists from around the world are told. This book must buy a physical book to read, reading on wechat can not experience the shock brought by art.
It’s also a very famous book, remember that it introduces several communication skills,To observe the,feeling,Need to be,requestAnd remind yourself to use them when interacting with others to improve your relationship with them. At first, I thought it was a book of management, but after reading it, I found it was a book of social psychology. Through many practical examples, I told how to use various kinds of booksinfluenceTo achieve goals.
What impressed me most after reading the book was that emperor Wanli also wanted to make great efforts to govern at the beginning, but then he was hit by various things and finally turned into a silent ruler. In anger its does not contend at the same time, also deeply realize him as the person emperor is not easy.

A nature
A book recommended by the author of Principles, which he read last year, tells the evolution of life from the perspective of genes. After reading it, I was not very impressed. I still felt that genome: Chapter 23 of the Autobiography of Race, which I read a few years ago, was better. An interesting and easy to read introduction to various important inventions in the history of human civilization from a unique time-travel perspective.
A book that subverts common sense and refreshes cognition. It turns out that many diseases of human beings also help human beings to overcome one difficulty after another in a specific period. It turns out that microbes can be inherited from generation to generation just like genes, but the “asepsis” pursued by modern people gradually leads to the loss of microbial diversity in human body, which indirectly leads to the prevalence of many modern diseases. After reading this book, the biggest feeling is to be good to this group of little friends in our body.

conclusion

2020 was a tough year, but it also met a lot of wonderful people and things; Although busy work, but also honed the will. In 2021, I hope to overcome inertia, keep reading and writing, and that life will be better for me.

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