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What I learned today?
──沒有整理，就難以發現規律
今天讀到Outliers第二章。
作者說
We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit. But there's nothing in any of the histories we've looked at so far to suggest things are that simple.
我十分佩服作者整理資料的功夫。
社會科學(經濟學、心理學、政治學)的訓練是要找出事件共性，對於一般成功人士的故事，我往往會去思考，他是否心理健康、出身良好的環境、時代條件如何? 但當作者用這套分析方式將這些案例整理在一起時，就匯聚成說服力強大的舉證，作到一般人不能做到的事。
實證研究的本質，就是透過觀察找出規律。沒有整理，就難以發現規律。
Summary
Beatles got a chance to play in the streaming show club for 8 hours a day and 7 days a week with 200 live shows in total before they put out a stream of hit records. Bill Joy happened to be a junior student of the University of Michigan which was among a handful of farsighted campuses providing time-sharing computers. Bill Gates was fortunately enough to get in an elite school and used a real time responding computer as an eighth grader in 1968. That is a time when card reading server is dominated the States. All of them has an exclusive opportunity to learn and try and master in their fields.
And if we scratch below the surface, we will see how the right timing of birth paves the way of opportunity to the future tech giants. January 1975 happened to the time of personal computer revolution. But if you were 25-something at that time, you would probably in no position to give up your good job and dived into a new paradigm. On the other hand, if you were too young then, you would have to go to high school and you wouldn't get in on the ground floor. But for those who was born in 1955, such as Bill Jot, Bill Gates and lots of tech moguls, they were greeted by the new age. Opportunity is important. Actually, its the core reason distinguishes these front runners from the other talent people.
Try & Error
我的原句 University of Michigan was among a handful of far-sighting campuses providing time-sharing computers.
作者的寫法 University of Michigan was one of the first universities in the world to switch over to time-sharing computers.
很欣賞作者用到switch over來強調這項技術之新。
我的原句Bill Gates was fortunately enough to get in an elite school and use a real time responding computer when he was a kid in a time card reading server is dominate the states.
Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.
不需要用到when，可以直接as
我的原句if you are 20-something at that time, you probably have a child on the way so you don't give up your work and dive into a new paradigm.
作者的寫法If you were more than a few years out of college in 1975, then you belonged to the old paradigm. //You had just bought a house. You're married.A baby is on the way.You're in no position to give up a good job and pension for some pie-in-the-sky $397 computer kit.
很欣賞作者用到in no position來說明那種不可能放棄的感覺，比我的so you don't give up好多啦。注意到，作者在//分隔線後，幾乎都用現在式，因為那是假設當時的情境，不需要用過去式。另外，作者用到條件句時，就是簡單的前後時態一致用過去式，並不像中文教科書規定的那麼複雜。
Sexy expressions
──in the story of Bill Joy
When Bill was a little kid, he wanted to know everything about everything way before he should've even known he wanted to know
The key to his development is that he stumbled across that nondescript building on Beal Avenue.
renting time on it cost a fortune.
Just look at the stream of opportunities that came Bill Joy's way. Because he happened to go to a farsighted school like the University of Michigan, he was able to practice on a time-sharing system instead of with punch cards; because the Michigan system happened to have a bug in it, he could program all he wanted; because the university was willing to spend the money to keep the Computer Center open twenty-four hours, he could stay up all night; and because he was able to put in so many hours, by the time he happened to be presented with the opportunity to rewrite UNIX, he was up to the task.
Programming in earnest by sophomore year. Add in the summers, then the days and nights in his first year at Berkeley. "So, so maybe ... ten thousand hours?" he said, finally. "That's about right."
──in the story of Beatles
Beatles put out a string of hit records that transformed the face of popular music
──in the story of Bill Gates
Let's now turn to the history of Bill Gates. His story is almost as well known as the Beatles'. Brilliant, young math whiz discovers computer programming. Drops out of Harvard. Starts a little computer company called Microsoft with his friends. Through sheer brilliance and ambition and guts builds it into the giant of the software world. That's the broad outline. Let's dig a little bit deeper.
He was way past ten thousand hours.
──in the story of tech giants
Lennon and McCartney had a musical gift of the sort that comes along once in a generation, and Bill Joy, let us not forget, had a mind so quick that he was able to make up a complicated algorithm on the fly that left his professors in awe. That much is obvious.
It was when industrial manufacturing started in earnest.
At the same time, though, you don't want to be too young. You really want to get in on the ground floor, right in 1975.
(get) in on the ground floor: to become involved in something from its beginning . Example: Can someone tell me how you get in on the ground floor of a money-making deal like that?
