Racing With Robots

We are living in "THE NEW MACHINE AGE", the age computers get better and faster than anything else ever, the age knowledge creation is more compatible than physical production. We invented siri, we invented IBM's Watson, we invented 4D printing...we have all these invention and they even got the most important skill themselves: machine learning! The black mirror told us this, HER pointed out this, but most of people still don't realize: technology is racing ahead, and it's leaving more and more people behind. How can a skilled worker compete with a piece of software? He can't.

Same with headhunting industry, this industry exists just because the asymmetric information, companies and job seekers get different information, we are earning money from asymmetric information. People know money and information are the two things in the world that people will not give you for free, and we can get money from information. But people forget all these information is a part of big data, and nowadays the big data is making all kinds of choices for us. Algorithm can tell us what movies we should watch, what music we should listen, like Netflix, like Pandora. And today it already can suggest us what jobs we are applying for, or tell employers who they should hire! Like AfterCollege.com, like Knack. Machines are doing this matchmaking jobs instead of headhunters.

No wonder more and more people will no longer have jobs, not only in the headhunting industry, but also in media and music, in finance and manufacturing, in retailing and trade...in fact, in every industry. Instead of slowing down the technology, we need to race with the machine.

Inspiration Everyday

"Money as a mean for access."
-Lifehacker
https://soundcloud.com/lifehacker/cellphone-carrier-bonanza

"At Khan Academy, when we hire, it’s nice if you have a high GPA and an academically rigorous major. But what we really care about is what you’ve made. For engineers, show us software you’ve designed. We also want evidence of how you work with other people, the leadership you exhibit, and what your peers think of you."
-Salman Khan
http://hbr.org/2014/01/salman-khan/ar/1?referral=00134

"There are two things people will not give you for free: money and information," says Pyle
"have a conversation with information in it,"
Read more: How to Find out Anything from Anyone | TIME.com http://healthland.time.com/2014/01/23/how-to-find-out-anything-from-anyone/#ixzz2rIAPmcUP

"photography is an art of continuous reinvention"
-http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/24/100-ideas-that-changed-photography/

“ The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
-Walter Bagehot

"It's you vs snow. Don't let the snow win."

谁的人生不是概率组成的呢？

My life is probabilities.
The odds of me meeting my Mr. right: it's two million to one.
And the odds of our falling in love: 60 million to one.

Do Men Really Earn More Than Women? [infographic]