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“A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools, it happens when society adopts new behaviors” –Clay Shirky

“革命并不在社会接受新工具之时发生，而是在社会接受新行为方式之时发生”——克莱舍基

今天看到这句话，认为说得不错。

一个工具如果没有用，不会成功。

一个工具有用，但是没有改变社会行为，也不会成功。

有用的好工具，不如改变人们行为的好工具。

21世纪10年代。新的十年，新的开端。

如果可以，我会一年不用电脑。退订绝大部分的RSS，只留一个邮箱，偶尔用手机上一下网，一天不超过30分钟。

用更多的时间和家人在一起，和朋友一起玩。静下心来弹吉他，弹给爱的人听。出门去散步、逛街、吃点路边摊。买一杯饮料，坐在靠窗的座位，看人群熙来攘往。在茶馆要一碗粗糙的盖碗茶，看一曲川戏。买漂亮的衣服，精心打扮自己和家人。去书店买喜欢的书和杂志，然后在清晨和夜晚，细细品味。打扫房屋，用心装饰，让生活充满美。在傍晚借着柔和的光线听音乐。用周末的时间到影院和几十人一起看电影，平时在家也看，细细品味。写信，写文章，写散文，写游记，写小说，用笔在纸上写，感受中文之妙。出门旅游，不再只是走马观花的旅行，游历每一个有意思的地方，和当地人交流，感受不一样的文化风俗、生活方式；或是投入进大自然的怀抱；亦或是让时光倒流，体味历史。到酒馆听现场音乐，激情或是抒情。到寺庙聆听佛号，到教堂洗礼心灵。玩玩篮球、乒乓球，或是到户外跑步、爬山。等等等等

好啦，差不多了，为了能持续不用电脑，还得先持续用电脑。套用奥巴马的话，来回答这个if I can:  Yes We Can!

1. Recently, I didn’t go to uni. broke the rule of going to uni a few times a week, then broke the habit of going to uni, so I’m used to not going to uni.

2. The day before yesterday and the day before, I didn’t go for jogging. So when I went jogging yesterday, it was a bit hard. I broke the rule of jogging  everyday, broke the habit, then I was used to no jogging.

3. I went jogging yesterday and today, so I started to build the rule again, and therefore started to build the habit.

Why build a habit?

It’s less painful if you have a habit to do something. People don’t like go to work but they still do, because they have the habit. It smokes awful when you try a cigarette the first time, but it becomes better when you are used to it, so so many people smoke.

if we want to do something, we’d better build a babit. If we don’t want to do something ,we’d better break the habit. According to the 3 short stories above, we’d better build a rule to build a habit and break a rule to break a habit. For example, if you want to quit smoking, you need to break your every rule about smoking, like one cigarette after meal or one pack everyday.

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1. 近来一段时间，没有去学校，打破了以前每星期都要去几次的规律，也就打破了上学的习惯，就习惯于不上学了。

2. 前天和上前天，没有跑步，于是昨天想起去跑步，都变得有些困难了。因为之前打破了每天跑步的规律，打破了这个习惯，再去跑步就有点不习惯了。

3. 由于昨天和今天都出去跑了步，于是又开始建立规律，那么习惯有可以慢慢养成了。

为什么要建立习惯？

做习惯的事情，是有惯性的，所以承受的痛苦更小。所以就算很多人讨厌上班但上习惯了，就不觉得了。人刚抽烟都觉得难受，但抽习惯就不觉得了，所以那么多人抽。

所以我们如果想做一件事，就最好建立一个习惯来做。不想做一件事，也要建立一个习惯来不做。而根据上面3个小故事说明的道理，要习惯，先规律。要打破习惯，也就先打破规律。比如，戒烟的话，先打破你关于抽烟的任何规律，比如饭后一支烟，或每天一包烟。

The biggest problem of modern education system, is that teachers do not teach students in accordance of their aptitude. Regarding students as the same and give you a knowledge package, but don’t care about what you need and don’t need. In another word, this kind of education is a seller’s market. Yes, you can choose your course, but  as a student, you cannot control the content, order, and progress.

For example, it’s like buying a CD. You can choose the CD you like, but once you buy it, you buy all the songs in it, and the songs are sorted in a certain order. But what if you buy songs from iTunes?  You find the song you are interested in, and try for 30 seconds on iPhone. If you like it, you buy this one. You only need to pay for what you need, and you can sort songs in any order to make your personalised music library.

Then why shouldn’t our courses be like that? Every student make their own personalised course, in accordance of what they really need, to ensure the course is suitable for themselves. About assessment,   we can have unified occupational certifications.

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现代教育体系的最大问题，是不因材施教。对学生一视同仁，把课程打包给你，而不关心你需要的是什么，不需要的是什么。也就是说这种教育是一种卖方市场。是的，你可以选课，但是每门所教授的内容、顺序、进度，却不是学生所能够按自己情况掌控的。

打个比方，这就像买CD，你可以挑选你喜欢的CD，但是你一买，就需要买里面所有的歌，并且这些歌还是按照一定顺序排列的。但是如果你是从iTunes买歌呢，你找到自己感兴趣的歌，可以在iPhone上试听30秒，如果喜欢，那么就购买这一首。你仅为你需要的歌付费，并可以按照自己需求任意组合音乐库, 创建个性化音乐库。

那么为什么我们的教学课程不应该这样呢？每一个学生按自己需求，量身定做课程，保证学习的是最适合自己的课程。考核的话，就通过统一的职业认证好了。

People who have to work hard for the mortgage loans, are mortgage slaves. They are real slaves, controlled by people with power.

In very early time, how did people have houses? They find a free unused land, and built a house, finished. However, the problem of modern society is the shortage of land. Lands are controlled by government and people who obtain lands by money and power. They build houses, rise prices, and lease or sell. Poor people rent, middle class take a mortgage loan. Therefore, these people work hard everyday, mainly in order to live in a house. They pay much more than what a house itself costs because lands are controlled.

Why are lands controlled?

People with money and power need you to work for then continuously. So they keep the lands, and make you slave and work for them, in order to live.

What if lands are planed and distributed by head. You can have one when you become an adult, and you lose it when you die. You can only have one piece of land. Then you will lose much of your burdens. Of course, the one-piece-only policy, disobeys human natural desire of taking possession. So, the prerequisite of communism is not just improving productivity, but more importantly, improving human minds.
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为偿还按揭贷款而被迫努力工作的人，是房奴。这群人是真的奴隶，被有权势者所控制。

最早人们是怎么样拥有住房的？自己找块空地，然后修建一个房子，完事了。但是，现代社会的问题在于没有足够的空地，土地被国家控制，被私人利用金钱权势购买而占有，修建房屋然后再大大提价转租或转售。穷人租房，中产按揭。于是这些人终日奔波，很大程度是为了住房，他们付出比房屋本身多得多的代价，因为土地是被控制的。

为什么土地被控制？

因为有钱有权的人需要你为他们不断地工作。于是占有土地，让你为了住房，而成为奴隶，终日为他们工作。

如果土地是按人头规划分配的，你成人之时就会拥有一块，不能多有，也不会没有，你的生活负担就会减轻很多了。当然，不能多有的条件，违背了人的原始占有欲望。所以共产主义的实现前提不只是提高生产力，更是提高人的修为。

First, what can I do if I guaduate from university? I can find a job, then work to make value for the society. What’s the essence? It’s making value.

Then, what I can do after quiting university is also making value.

1. Find the needs of markets.

2. Learn knowledge according to the needs, and collect resources needed.

3. Make value for the society.

This is my whole plan, very simple.

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先说如果大学毕业，可以做什么。大学毕业可以找个工作，然后在这个工作岗位上为社会创造价值。实质是什么？实质是创造价值。

那么退出大学可以做的，也是创造价值。

第一，找到市场的需求。

第二，根据需求学习相关知识，搜集需要的资源。

第三，创造价值，为社会服务。

于是这就是我的全部计划，很简单。

Don’t want to continue on studying in university. Why?

First, the current education mode has been spat by me since middle school, I wanted  to quit, but failed. This mode is a product of the Industrial Age. Mass production raised, companies formed, employees were needed, then an education mode like this was established to provide employees.

In Agricultural Age, people learnt from family, so farmers’ sons became farmers, and cooks’ sons became cooks. Some people learnt as apprentices, so some farmers’ sons also became cooks.

However, it is Information Age right now, what is the suitable education mode? Global connected, information resources can be accessed easily. Everyone can have unlimited knowledge through internet. So Knowledge should not be the main purpose of education.

What is the purpose of higher education? There should be a few points.

1. Establish social resource network. Help young people to establish relationships with other young people, professionals and elites in the industry of his/her future career.

2. Train global views. Help young people to see career with globalized view, to serve for larger market, and have more opportunities.

3. Train cross-cultural collaboration. Learn and practise work with people located in different countries with different cultural background, too make greater value.

4. Many more…

Higher education should not be knowledge-oriented, but should be oriented by the points mentioned above, therefore to train people for 21st century. Schools that teach knowledge is too old-fashioned. Why should I go to school when I can learn knowledge online from open courses, so I quit.
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最近不想再继续上大学了，为什么？

首先，目前的上学模式，是我从初中就很唾弃的，当时就想退学，但是未果。这个模式是西方社会工业时代的产物，当时工业兴起，公司形成，需要雇员，于是建立这样一种教育模式来培养雇员。

在这个时代之前的农业时代，人们从家庭学习，所以农民的儿子是农民，厨师的孩子也当厨师。也有很多人通过当学徒学习，于是也有农民儿子当了厨师。

但是现在是信息时代了，适合信息时代的教育模式是什么？全球互联化，信息资源唾手可得，通过互联网，人人都可以拥有无尽的知识。所以知识不应该是教育的主要目的。

高等教育的目的是什么？应该有好几点。

一，建立社会资源网络。帮助年轻人与同样年轻的人、未来事业的业内人士、精英建立关系，为在社会立足而打造多元化的人际关系网络。

二，培养全球化视野。帮助年轻人以国际化思维来看待事业，为更广泛更全面的市场服务，也拥有更多的机会。

三，培养跨文化协作技能。学习练习与身处不同国家，拥有不同文化背景的人合作，以创造更大的价值。

四，还有很多…

高等教育不应该以知识学科为导向，而应该以上述的方向作为导向。这样才能培养出适合21世纪的人才。教授知识的学校，太落后于时代了，还不如不去。能从互联网上免费学国际一流的开放课程，还去学校学什么，所以退学算了。

These days I’ve been thinking about why so many people go to universities. I’ve been studying in a uni for four weeks, but found that uni is quite a waste of time and money.

What is good about university? I found one. You can meet and chat with many people, and this is impossible if you go to work or stay at home. This is exactly what young people need, expanding their social networks, to build their future careers.

I think university is basically about knowledge+people. Nowadays, with internet, we can all get access to free online open courses offered by the best universities in the world. Then the only reason for us to study in a university, is to meet people.

If we can solve the people-meeting need in some easier form, then perhaps we don’t need to go to university any more.

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这些天我一直在想为什么这么多人上大学。我上大学四个星期了，但是觉得很浪费时间和金钱。

大学有什么好处？我找到一个。你可以遇见很多人，然后和他们交谈，而这是在上班时或者待在家时不可能实现的。这正是年轻人所需要的，拓展社交圈子，来建立未来的事业。

我想大学基本上是知识+人。如今，有互联网，任何人都可以上世界最好的大学提供的免费网上开放课程。于是我们去上大学的理由就只有一个，去认识人。

如果我们能用其他形式解决这个认识人的需求，也许我们就不用上大学了。

在注册一年多以后，这几天终于开始试用Twitter了。发现一个很有用的地方：如果你有足够的follower，它就是一个人肉语义搜索引擎。

先从我的经历说起，我在尝试follow了几个人之后，惊奇地发现除了这些人follow了我之外，还有另外几个人也开始follow我，并且接下来两天也不断有人follow我。这就是Twitter和Facebook不同的地方，Twitter的好友，绝大部分都是不认识的人。Twitter就是一个你面向全世界不认识的人的一个广播站。

于是乎，当你拥有一定数量的follower之后，你的广播就可以面积很广了。由于这些follower都是随意添加上你的，所以他们来自非常不同的地方，干各种各样的工作，过着方式各异的生活，所以，你的广播站可以覆盖到你所需要的绝大部分内容。

于是当你需要在某个异国小城的人推荐住处，需要找一份新工作，需要询问一个新产品的信息，需要找一些人一起学习一门课程，等等任何需要，你都可以发布一条广播，然后就等待你上万的followers中间一些人的回复吧。

这种搜索方式是完全语义化的，因为回复你的全都是懂人类语言的活生生的人。所以在语义搜索引擎完善之前，Twitter是一个很好的代替。并且就算有很好的语义网，Twitter也还不错，因为跟人对话，你往往得到的不止是你搜索的问题答案，还会有意想不到的收获。

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One year after registered on Twitter, I started to use it these days. I found a powerful way to use it: Once you get enough followers, Twitter becomes a human semantic search engine.

This is my experience. After I followed a few people, I was surprised to see that not only the people I followed started to follow me, but also some other people did. This is how Twitter differs from Facebook. Unlike your friends on Facebook, your followers on Twitter are mostly people you don’t know, and Twitter is your broadcasting station towards the people you don’t know around the world.

Then when you get enough followers on Twitter, your broadcast can spread very widely. Most of your followers followed you randomly, so they come from very different places, do very different jobs and have very different lifestyles. Your broadcasting station can reach most of the content you need.

Therefore, when you need accommodation recommendations for a journey to an exotic town, a new job, some information about a new product, or some people to learn a course together etc., you can broadcast on Twitter for what you need and wait for the answers from some of your thousands of followers.

This way of searching is absolutely semantic, because it is human beings who totally understand your language replied you. So before semantic search engine becomes useful enough, Twitter is a good alternation. Even after we have great semantic search engine, Twitter will still be a good tool, because when you talk to people, you get more than just the answers you need.