Nan's Idealog

［转载］如何在24小时内完成一个可用的网站

2010-08-19T23:48:00.000-07:00

转自 http://meditic.com

按：看过此文感触很多，很多时候空谈理想不如扎入现实，马上行动。

9月下旬，Roy过来找我说想在3个月内做出一个在线销售珠宝的网站。我的第一个反应是：为什么要3个月，而不是7天？

Roy感到很意外，7天也太短了吧。前期想花2个礼拜做市场分析，然后花2个礼拜做系统架构和主机租用，再一个月编写代码，再两周集成支付系统，最后两周用来调试。。。。。3个月已经很快了呀。。。。

我还是坚持“7天之内必须做出来”。Roy说“十一正好要结婚，还要忙准备工作呢”。“那好，除去结婚的7天，14天后必须上线。今晚回去就上GoDaddy把域名注册了，去mediatemple租个主机，几分钟后就能开通。利用5天写代码，花1天集成Paypal，最后1天做调试和部署。”

14天后，Roy的网站Bypoo真的上线了，而且真的可以卖了。

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10月初，阿宏过来找我，说想在2个月内上线一个家居设计销售网站。我的第一个反应依然是：为什么要2个月，而不是7天？

阿宏说“我有很远大的计划，我的网站将成为一个跟和淘宝一样复杂的家居交易平台”。。。。“打住！不管你将来计划多大，先给我上线，卖出第一套家具再说。这个周末去联系好10种存货，花5天写代码，7天后上线开卖。” 阿宏终究没有7天上线，最大原因是他一开始就建立了一个不小的团队，而团队成员却分散在各地，7天时间不够协作。

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互联网创造奇迹的地方有很多，其中一个很大的方面是：你可以在24小时内完成一个网站并开始做生意。互联网的硬件和软件成本已经低到了难以想象的地步，除去营销费用，一个网站只需要100块钱加上几天时间就能架起来。这是多么美妙的事情啊。

但是，很多人都被混蛋的MBA思维给套住了，什么市场分析，战略定位，用户调研，架构设计。。。。。都是Bullshit，这个时代什么都缺，就是MBA太多了，危害青少年健康。当你有一个想法的时候，就应该在几个小时候内把商业模式和系统逻辑想清楚了，然后7天内做出一个雏形（或者说比Beta版更Beta的版本），推出这个雏形之后，才去跟大家讨论，获取建议、想法，并改进成真正的Beta版，然后每天迭代开发，不断改进，直到成为一个完善的网站。绝对不要想着上线的第一个版本就能用上一年。事实上，第一个版本甚至连1个月后的情况能否应对都不是关键。

很建议有MBA思维的人士去读一读37Signals专门为网络startup定制的初创指导书“Getting Real”，看看这家成功的互联网公司是踢开MBA套路，直捣创业核心的。对网络创业犹豫的朋友，建议去看看美国的Startupweekend是如何每个周末纠集一小帮人、让他们在周六、周日两天之内搞出n个新网站来run的。

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前天，我突然发现，一个非常好的朋友，到现在还是单身。我想给他找个女友、我想到了互联网、我去搜索了一大堆交友网站，我立即无数枯燥的交友网站给淹没了，我感到我进入了很多生猪卖场，我发现一切都标准化了，我发现我在按照猪的体重、三维、价格来给我朋友挑选一头母猪。。。。。

我想给我的好友找一个女友，可是没有一个我看得上的交友网站。

你不是号称7天内就能做出一个新网站么？为什么不干脆自己做一个？

我也是这么想的。

这次我把目标定为了24小时（包括睡眠时间）。

首先确定网站的核心诉求：每个人身边都有单身的好男孩或好女孩，却由于各种原因而单身。那么，请你来向大家推荐你的单身好友，并从别人推荐的朋友里选择可能适合TA的对象。

从昨晚7点开始，花了5分钟从已有的空余域名里挑了一个，Zircy.com，然后花了10分钟想名字，叫“择悉”，和Zircy谐音，反正名字可以随时改的，先这样吧。

功能目标：

1、注册和登录

2、能提交自己的好友信息，包括姓名、性别、地区和照片

3、能够看别人推荐的好友，如果觉得某人不错，就可以点击按钮发送“感兴趣”的信息，促成对方的朋友和自己的朋友来约会

花了5个小时，用php+mysql把代码编好（没有用框架，但从以前网站里借用了一些常用函数），实现了上述基本功能，但bug一大堆，而且完全没有考虑美工、UI设计什么的，不管如何，5小时后的凌晨，Zircy.com就公开上线了。

然后花了8个小时睡觉。

今天上午醒来，开始修正了一些大bug，然后花了一个下午调整CSS、美化布局。所有用到的图片、网站介绍、用户协议、隐私政策等都是从我以前的网站里搬过来，或者在网上现找的，其实这些东西不要也没关系。到下午6点搞定。

最后花了1个小时用photoshop设计了Zircy的logo和一些图片按钮，还做了一下初步的SEO，填充了一些原始数据（首页里可真的都是我的好朋友啊。。。。真是对不住哥几位了。。。）

大功告成。

现在大家看到的Zircy.com，就是花了24小时做出来的。有兴趣的话，可以去注册玩玩。邀请码是ZircyRocks

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后记，对于一个技术高手来说，24小时做出一个网站根本不是问题。这篇博文也不是为了炫耀什么，只是想表达一个看法，一个对创业的看法：如果你相信自己的点子，请不要拖，尽快把它做出来，只有尽快做出来，才能prove你的点子是否可行。如果蒙头做半年才上线，很有可能出来的玩意儿已经一文不值了。

创业不是一件简单的事情，但也不是很艰难的事情。

Three things I learned at a d.school class

2010-06-08T22:51:00.000-07:00

I took one d.school class-Play Innovation this quarter and I learned a lot from it. Compared to classes like ME310, d.school class projects are not quite engineered. Actually sometimes their prototypes look pretty sloppy. But I truly believe that smaller and a little more projects are ideal to practice design thinking.

Basically I learned three things at that class.

1 Environment is very important.

This class created a very SAFE environment for creation, which means besides the universal phrase in d.school classes "I wish, I like", it also encourages students to push the limit of crazy ideas. No one will be blamed for any idea. The results turned out to be fabulous. For all of the three small projects, there are some truly awesome ideas. I do believe this is working, and I began to think how do I create a safe environment for myself to be creative. Choosing the environment around me is definitely one choice. Besides that, I also need to expand my mind to accept more things, to appreciate different angles, to push the limit of my imagination.

2 Have clear time line at the beginning makes things going much smoother.

Three small projects, I did an experiment. The one we had the least time turned out to be the most efficient, the one we had a lot of time was in a hurry at the last minute. It is very obvious that with the one we had shorter time, we made a clear time line right after class and carried it out after that. But for the other one, we didn't do that because we thought we had plenty of time. Having clear time line and goal do help on productivity. Even if it doesn't turn out to be completely achieved, we should still make the plan early.

3 Have fun, relax, and trust the process and then good ideas will show up.

Engineering students are not comfortable when facing ambiguity generally. They usually tend to have some clear guideline to follow. Once they don't, they will create one for them to follow even if it is not the right one. For a typical design thinking process, I think we need to really relax and trust the process, trust it will all work out OK. It is very clear that some students they always have good ideas, I think that is because they had fun there and followed process to explore, and converge at a certain point. For those very engineering thinking student, their projects are usually well made but with less value-they didn't explore the space enough before getting their hands dirty to make prototypes.

My risk profile

2010-05-07T21:10:00.000-07:00

Maybe you can't tell, I'm a person that would like to take some risks. Entrepreneurship is about pursuing opportunities, leadership is about making things happen. So there must be many risk factors along the journey of entrepreneurship. How should I deal with risks? Where is the baseline for taking risks? Let me try to figure out my risk profile.

My happiness does not rely on earning a lot of money. It is nothing bad with making a lot of money, but when I'm not having passion for my work and I don't have time for a quality life, I'd stay one step away from making more money. On the other hand, I won't have problems living an life without a lot of money. I eat two meals a day, haven't been to supermarket for two quarters. So my only daily expense is meal, and that won't take much.

Imagine I'm only having a regular salary as many other 'white collar' workers in China. Will I have problems with that? I don't think so. Because my happiness does not rely on the money I earn, instead it is the things I do. Renting an apartment would be the ideal choice for me in the next a few years rather than put the burden of loan on my shoulder for years on a house that I only have the ownership for decades.

Pushing the situation to an extreme, will I have problems to earn something for my living in the future? Will I be so poor as to beg for money and food? I don't think so. This is enough for me. The worse scenario is acceptable for me at least now, so risks don't mean as much anymore.

Failures is very natural. In a d.school class, my teammates asked me what if the users don't like our design. I said even if it is a failure, it is still something very important we learn. That class is working very hard to create an safe environment of creating things, which means you can try every wacky idea you can think of, but the students are still feeling unsafe about failures. This reminds me about how to create a safety environment for myself to create and explore along my life. I think it is to figure out the baseline of my risk profile.

And I think it is very clear for me now. Deal with failures properly, they are not good things, neither bad things.

Several tips for engineers to prepare for thinking and working in a bigger box

2010-05-06T20:27:00.001-07:00

Today we had a guest speaker at 310, Mark Schar, who is a design researcher and angel investor. He talked about how people trained as engineers can think in a bigger box and prepare for working in a bigger box.

Here are a few tips he gave at the end of the speech.

Understand the Business

Read the WSJ
Profit forecast
Jack Welch-Winning

Know the Customer

d.school-world class
customer and consumer

Passion for Technology

Explore, Evangelize, Sell

Clearly Communication

Practice

Inspire Collaboration

Other people shoes

Leadership

Observe those who are clearly an leader in an organization. Role model.

Project Management

So different from product management!

Ship Something

Get'er done.

Also I learned about this guy, Bill Campbell.

How I deal with pressure and anxiety

2010-05-05T23:44:00.000-07:00

I'm determined to become an entrepreneur soon. So every time I feel I'm having too much pressure, or feel too anxious about something, I will tell myself that I will encounter way heavier pressure and anxiety in the future when doing start up. And I need to prepare for that. Then I'm feeling much better about the pressure I'm dealing with now.

Take one step away to see our lives, those things that we felt helpless, hopeless, or too difficult before just fall into pieces and disappear. They don't really matter anymore for us now. So don't put yourself in a situation that you think you are stuck at somewhere that you can't move on anymore.

Crystal, as an entrepreneur, told me that it is too stressful to be an entrepreneur. I'd say if we look at it from another angle, if you love that, it is not an concern anymore. A good entrepreneur should be able to go to bed and have a good sleep even if his company is facing huge crisis on the very same day.

Sherman Ting's speech

2010-04-04T14:17:00.000-07:00

Sherman Ting's speech is one of the best speech I've ever attended. It is very inspiring to me.

1 Entering companies that are growing fast is better than entering a mature company. The former allows you to try different positions, while the latter is highly competitive and you have to compete even for a very low position. In his career path, he joined Oracle in the fastest growing period and he managed to try manager's position very soon.

2 Glass Ceiling is for people for believe in it. Most of the Chinese people here at the valley encounter the so called Glass Ceiling. In Sherman's opinion, most of them don't deserve a promotion. If you don't have enough network, don't work harder to bring extra value beyond the 8-hour work, why are you qualified to be promoted? I agree with this point and I think this reflects the situation for lots of Chinese here who are still doing the basic work after graduating for many years. Challenge yourself and get fit to the environment, then you can live better.

3 Participate in new projects and functions. Same as entering growing companies, joining new projects and functions give one larger possibility to lead a team, a department, or a market.

4 Tips for being an entrepreneur:
-Vision with a passion.
-Eternally optimistic.
-Determination.
-Leadership.
-People make or brake a business.
-It's an unforgiving world out there.

5 Lessons learned during his entire career.
-Effective communication is key.
-Participate, be a consistent contributor.
-Learn from the best.
-Networking is a way of life.
-Hire the best to replace yourself. /I think this point is really interesting. Don't try to be the best at everything, but the question is where should I actually stop trying to be the best?/
-Never stop building new skills.
-Never stop asking and learning.
-Never afraid of trying the unknown. /I strongly agree with this point. There is surely risk but trying new things makes me happy and exited./
-Competition is about being better.
-No shortcuts.
-Go to where opportunities are. /Sherman told us that one Chinese student asked him about whether stay in the states or go back to China, he pointed out this and that student decided to go back. It is not an universal law for everyone because different people define opportunity differently. Some may think working in a big company here is a good opportunity./
-Be patient. /BE PATIENT!/

6 Sherman also pointed out the solid foundations for everyone.
-Communication.
-Problem solving.
-Functional and Domain Expertise.
-Ethical, high integrity.
-Good reputation.
-High Standard.
-Marketing plan for yourself.
-Have goals, make decisions which fits the goals.
-Good network.
-Adjust to different culture.
-Management experience.

Entrepreneurs and business leaders from Stanford University

2010-03-23T17:30:00.000-07:00

Kurt Akeley, (MS, Ph.D.), co-founder of Silicon Graphics
Jim Allchin, (MS) co-President of Microsoft
Mukesh Ambani, (MBA candidate, dropped out) Reliance Industries Limited Chairman
John Arrillaga, (A.B., MBA) - Silicon Valley real estate developer
Steven A. Ballmer, (MBA candidate, dropped out in 1979) CEO, Microsoft
Diosdado Banatao, (MS), venture capitalist; S3 Graphics, Chips and Technologies, Mostron co-founder.
Craig Barrett, B.S., Ph.D. (1964) - past Chairman of Intel, former CEO of Intel (1998–2005). Former Stanford Professor of Materials Science (1964–1974).
Andy Bechtolsheim (Ph.D CS/EE 1977-1982(Dropped Out), Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems.
Jeffrey Bewkes (MBA 1977), Time Warner President and COO
Len Bosack, (MS 1981), co-founder of Cisco Systems with his girlfriend (later wife), Sandy Lerner
Sergey Brin, (MS), Google co-founder
Orkut Büyükkökten , Founder of social networking service called Orkut
Ray Dolby, audio engineer, founder of Dolby Labs
Burton A. Dole, Jr., (BSME, MBA), President, CEO, and Chairman of Puritan Bennett
Richard B. Evans, (MS Management 1978), Alcan, President & CEO
Richard Fairbank, (A.B., MBA), co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Capital One
David Filo, (MS), Yahoo! co-founder
Carly Fiorina, (1976), CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 - 2005.
Paul Flaherty, (M.S., Ph.D.) co-inventor of the AltaVista search engine
Victor Grinich, (Ph.D. 1953) one of the "Traitorous Eight" that founded Fairchild Semiconductor
Andrew Grove, (Lecturer) - founder and former CEO and Chairman of Intel
Reed Hastings (M.S. 1988), Netflix founder
Trip Hawkins, (MBA) - founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO
Christopher Hedrick, (A.B. 1984) - President and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions
William Hewlett (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
Mamoru Imura, CEO of Vita Craft Corporation and Vita Craft Japan, inventor of RFIQin.
Guy Kawasaki - CEO of the venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures
Howard Kerzner - (MBA 1991) - former CEO of Kerzner International
Vinod Khosla, (MBA), Sun Microsystems co-founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner
Phil Knight, (MBA 1961), founder and former CEO, Nike
Omid Kordestani, (MBA), Senior Vice President Google
Sandy Lerner, (MS Stat & CS 1981), co-founder of Cisco Systems with her boyfriend (later husband), Len Bosack
Richard Li, (College dropout) - founder of STAR TV (Asia) and Chairman of the largest Hongkong telecommunication carrier PCCW
Victor Li, (BS, MS 1985) - Hong Kong businessman
Mao Daolin, (MS in EESOR) former CEO of Sina.com
Craig McCaw, (A.B.) Founder and CEO of McCaw Cellular, founder of Clearwire
Henry McKinnell, (MBA, Ph.D.) - Chairman and former CEO of Pfizer
Scott McNealy, (MBA) - Co-founder, Chairman, & former CEO, Sun Microsystems
Hamid Moghadam, (MBA 1980) - Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, AMB Property Corporation
Robert Mondavi, (A.B. 1937) Vintner
John Morgridge, (MBA 1957), Cisco Systems Chairman
Mark Oldman, Vault.com co-founder
David Packard, (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
Larry Page, (M.S.), Google co-founder
Azim Premji, founder and CEO of Wipro Technologies
T.J. Rodgers, (Ph.D.) - founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor
James Sachs, (A.M. 1979), IDEO co-founder
John Turner Sargent, Jr., business associate of Doubleday (whose father was CEO) and CEO of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Charles R. Schwab, (1959, MBA 1961), founder, chairman, and CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation
David E. Shaw, (Ph. D. 1980) - founder of D.E. Shaw & Co. and Chief Scientist of D.E. Shaw Research, LLC
Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, Clarium Capital founder
Alan Tripp, (A.B. 1985, MBA 1989) founder of SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack
Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder
Lance Leelie, [Leelie Corp][1], founder
Min Zhu, founder and former CTO of WebEx
Hernán Kazah, co-founder of Mercadolibre.com
Scott McGregor, President, Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom

This quarter

2010-03-18T22:56:00.000-07:00

For the first two weeks of this quarter, I was desperate since I just came back from China and just had the eye surgery one week before that. I was in very bad mental situation and my right eye is very painful at that time.

Then gradually I began to draw my attention to other things and my motion turns better. I spent tons of time and efforts in summer intern hunting and sent out countless resumes. Because I always believe if you do not succeed, it is you are not trying hard enough rather than there are not enough opportunities. While many positions are still pending, I have some choices now. I personally prefer to go to some start-up company rather than big Fortune 500 companies. I also applied for the entrepreneurship summer school here at Stanford GSB. I guess if I get that chance, I'll choose to take that course and do some part-time intern at some internet start-ups.

I was in charge of the ME310 for our team this quarter. The situation in our team pushed me to work harder and harder, which I don't really have another option. But the efforts paid off, I learned a ton this quarter. Simply contribute more and take the responsibility, you can be the leader.

I joined lots of organizations this quarter, SVTN, SVCEF, CIE, CEO, IIG. I traveled by train to attend meetings, even right after I got off plane. I also take train to meet entrepreneurs, investors. The E-club under ACSSS is still in planning stage, hope early next quarter we can work that out.

After two weeks of final push, while I can't really sleep, this quarter ends. And I've already had two quarters here. Thanks for all the friends of mine and hope next quarter will be better.

Some reflects after the dinner with CEO of Baixing.com

2010-03-01T00:06:00.000-08:00

1 Don't believe in others' successful stories, they don't really know how they get succeed. So the best way to be a good entrepreneur is go try it.

2 Trying to avoid the mistakes by listening to experienced entrepreneurs is not working. Most likely you will make the same mistakes again.

3 Time is your best friend.

4 Understanding your customers are crucial.

5 Some simple philosophies take years to really understand.

Generally he is a person with deep understanding with his e-commerce business as well as some other related industries. Experience at Microsoft and E bay is valuable according to his own words, but he also said that you can gain the experience from everywhere.

For anyone who wants to try his website, here's the link:
www.baixing.com

Random thoughts on CIE conference

2010-02-21T00:03:00.000-08:00

1 If China managed to bring innovation into the country, it will be a superpower, otherwise it will be nothing.

2 Organization is more powerful than I thought.

3 Try to be innovative and there will be lots of things you can do. 广阔天地，大有作为。

4 Be careful if you are not living as the way you love, but the way you are used to.

5 Berkeley guys seems to have more energy than Stanford guys. Stanford guys have less passion and are not active in reaching out at all, which is pretty bad in my opinion.

从今天开始

2010-02-15T22:56:00.000-08:00

今天在校内网上发表了一篇文章。

生活无聊，做点白日梦，看看30年后能实现多少。

1 开一家书店

2 办一个私塾

3 创建一家innovation consulting firm

4 登上珠峰

5 去过南北极

6 出版一本小说

7 录一首歌

8 学会弹吉他

9 学习2～3门语言

10 办一本杂志

11 在报纸上写专栏

12 参与一场电影的演出

13 去过100个国家

14 跳伞

15 潜水

16 在大学教一门课

17 学会开飞机

18 创立属于自己的品牌

19 环球航海，或者在船上做水手

20 去一所寺庙呆半年

21 学会滑雪和滑板运动

22 学会冲浪

23 月球旅行

待续。

为了实现其中的一部分，我决定开始进行长期规划。举措之一是订阅了一些感兴趣的网站和博客，决定每天进行信息更新。同时进行博客写作，锻炼自己的思维。

请大家监督。

2010-01-29T17:26:00.001-08:00

每天早上醒来时，我们可以有两个简单的选择
　 - 回头去睡，继续做梦
　 -或者起身去追逐梦想

选择权在你手上

2010-01-26T19:16:00.000-08:00

为什么会恐惧, 因为害怕失去，其实你根本不曾拥有.

为什么害怕失去，因为你想要得到，其实你不知道自己想得到什么
为什么想要得到，因为满足欲望让你感觉良好，但是你不知道生命不是只有感觉良好才有意义

不幸福不一定不精彩，不精彩不一定丰富，不丰富不一定没有意义。

你本裸体，怕个屁怕

Brainstorm of how to live my life

2009-12-07T01:36:00.001-08:00

On Creation

2009-12-04T17:39:00.000-08:00

民谣还是那么温暖。

对事情的态度开始发生变化，以前最尊重的是扎扎实实做事情的人，受清华影响很大，所谓“行胜于言”的校风。现在最敬佩的是能够做出创造性工作的人，因为只有创造出新的东西，才有更高的价值。所以，我很尊重音乐家，他们的工作带给不计其数的人以温暖。创造不单让世界更丰富，而且创造者的生活也更有激情，更加有趣。

之前一直在思考为什么有的行业需要调查用户的需求，有的行业不需要。暂时的结论是：涉及到创造新体验的行业都不需要（或者很少需要）用户的反馈，比如fashion design, 比如iphone. 我们的project也多少和这个有关。

希望自己能在创造之路上走的顺利。

Do what you like

2009-11-08T19:38:00.000-08:00

Time is precious here at Stanford. So, I must do more meaningful things. You know what, I will surprise you.

Me&Charis

A tree at Stanford Shopping Center

How to make others feel good?

2009-11-04T23:46:00.000-08:00

How to make others feel good? Just a single point, that is remembering their names and mentioning their names.

More and more works come to me, I should do my best here.

A shot today:

Moleskine

2009-11-02T22:25:00.000-08:00

Moleskine® is a brand that identifies a family of notebooks, diaries, and city guides: flexible and brilliantly simple tools for use both in everyday and extraordinary circumstances, ultimately becoming an integral part of one's personality.

Moleskine was created as a brand in 1997, bringing back to life the legendary notebook used by artists and thinkers over the past two century: among them Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin. A trusted and handy travel companion, the nameless black notebook held invaluable sketches, notes, stories, and ideas that would one day become famous paintings or the pages of beloved books.

Today, Moleskine notebooks are trusted companions to the creative professions and the imagination of our own times: they have become a symbol of latter-day nomadism, and they are intimately tied to the digital world through a network of websites, blogs, online groups, and virtual archives.

Why is this small notebook so successful?

I think part is because of its positioning. It is used a lot by many great masters who do creative things, which is stressed a lot through advertising. This makes people who nowadays doing similar things wanna try using the same notebook as their forerunners. This gives them an indication in their mind that, I AM DOING GREAT THINGS AS WELL.

Secondly I think it is really neatly made and are easy to carry, and it is also diversified so as to meet all your need in daily life.

Surely the former reason is the key one. In a time of internet, how many people will carry a notebook (I mean a real notebook, not a laptop) with them just as calendar or planner? In this innovation-needed society, moleskine is big again.

Halloween concert

2009-11-01T22:59:00.000-08:00

Today I went to the halloween concert. It was great. I like the iPod People best. I will definitely go to more concerts in Stanford.

Design thinking

2009-10-30T18:19:00.000-07:00

It is time to choose course for the next quarter. I will take ME 310B because it is a three-quarter commitment. I am also willing to take ME 317A-Product definition because I am to take 24 units in ME and courses in Design for Manufacturability is what I want to take besides ME 310 sequence.

I spent some time grabbing information about design from the wiki, and it seems that I am falling love with design thinking. I think maybe I should spend more time to know better about design. I am also planning to take course from d.school. That must be awesome! There is information about design thinking on New York Times, on the web of IDEO, and on TED website. The passage in NYT says, B-school today will become D-school tomorrow. I am quite passionate to dive into this area. And yesterday when having group discussion, I suddenly realized that I am not used to the traditional thinking pattern of Engineers.

Our coach also mentioned that, this is not undergrad, and you won't get a problem set and asked to finish it. You have to find out the problem and opportunity yourself and then figure out a solution with design thinking. This is what I want to do for sure. I will get to know more about it recently.

On workshop

2009-10-29T23:11:00.000-07:00

1. It is intense. All the people from Europe seem not used to that.

2. People from Europe are sort of more conservetive than American people.

3. People from Europe are kind of proud about their culture, but you know what, they almost all got a Macbook/Macbook pro, which is made in CA.

4. Japanese people are cute!

5. English proficiency rank:
Finnish>Swiss>German>French>Japanese

6. Everyone learned John’s favorite words: It’s great! It’s fantastic! It’s awesome!

This is mother of iPhone, a working prototype with multi-touch screen.

Church

2009-10-28T20:27:00.000-07:00

Today I went to the Memorial Church in Stanford with Luyi. Someone was playing the organ that time. This is my first time to go into a church, the feeling is good.

American style

2009-10-27T23:36:00.000-07:00

Today's workshop is fantastic. Although it has some overlap with former lectures for Stanford local teams, it is great! It seem that all the global partners is enjoying a American way of workshop. Luyi just asked me that do we always have candies at class. Yes! In ME 310, it is quite flexible, which means you can do anything at class if you are comfortable and others feel comfortable about you. The bad news is, I seems to have missed many information on lectures before. Because I can clearly remember which part I have listened to, in the meanwhile I began to realize last time I did not catch the content. Hopefully it will be better as time goes, so just pay attention to the lectures and do some make up when necessary, like watch the video again after class.

The whole class lasted the whole day. We all felt quite tired after that. I am happy that I arrived early this morning and I helped John and a stuff managing things. They are happy and I am happy, too. Larry Leifer specially expressed his thanks to me, which surprised me a lot. Yes, it is Larry Leifer!

All kinds of things to be done, and I just began with my resume and cover letter and stuff like that. Hope this is the last time that I try to be determined to do something. Let us go and see.

Thinking about what is my favorate job area

2009-10-26T19:48:00.000-07:00

I just changed my laptop wallpaper to "use it-my brain". I think I really should use my brain a bit more, and avoid being lazy about thinking. I always say that one day I will be back to my country and save the mechanical industry there. I wasn't quite serious when saying that, that is because I did not think about that seriously. Now I am choosing Design Methodology and Design for Manufacturability as my depth areas here at Stanford. So it is also possible for me to continue with what I formerly stated. Now I find that I am interested in discovering new things, like new principles of life, new ideas that might be great, new perspective I look at something, and I sort of find myself prefer this kind of work than the problem solving work, which are, of course what the engineers do.

I was interested in design. When I was young, I came up with some kind of art that writes a English word like a Chinese character. I did not think about that much until several years later, I noticed that a famous artist Xu,bing is doing the same thing, except he was doing that on a larger piece of paper. Then I realized that maybe I do have some kind of talent in design. That is part of the reason why I am taking ME 310, which is a famous and tough class here. I just wanna see whether I am that kind of person.

I also got interests in Economics. I borrowed a book and decided to learn by myself or I will choose classes in Economics next quarter.

Let me try and see, I will figure it out in the near future.