偶然读到的一篇文章，摘抄最喜欢的一部分放在这里。 原文：muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/12/lea… 作者来自于AWS。
Suppose you are beamed up to a foreign city in another galaxy and you have to learn your way around.
Why is there not a map? Oh, there are actually many different maps and books written by the locals. But these groups speak all different languages. You cannot understand the ledgers in these maps. No one uses standard lingo, there are a lot of technical (often inconsistent/incompatible) jargon in the maps/guides because this is a complex/complicated city terrain. Moreover, the maps/guides are incomplete due to uncharted territory, not enough details, not enough instructions.
In your quest to master the city, you go through different roles: spectator, participant, citizen, and architect.
Initially you are a spectator. You follow your roommate while he walks around between home and work. You look at everything with confusion and awe. Nothing makes sense, and everything looks foreign.
Then you become a participant. You learn to walk between home, park, and the cornerstone by using landmarks you identified. You get lost a couple times. Good, those are learning opportunities.
Then you become a practitioner/citizen of the city. You learn your way around, and you start working. You are now contributing to the city, even starting to do some community building maybe.
At this level, you start to notice larger blocks of the city. You start to develop a higher-level view of the city. Now those maps finally started making sense. New suburbs/towns of the city now open up to you. You start discovering highways between the suburbs. (Oh, that obscure dashed line in the map is this fast highway!)
But you also go low-level. You start noticing ornaments on building tops, the different architectural styles, even different fonts in shop signs, and which eras they were built and how they interplay with each other. You start to recognize the 3 groups of people and become conversant in their languages as well.
This is when things become intuitive as you internalized things thanks to all that context you gathered. Now, you know the culture, and start to enjoy the hip places and the city as a whole. You start to contribute to the city more and more.
You now develop a taste for the city. And slowly you will realize, for certain places, doing things another way would actually work better. That means you are becoming an architect. You start building things. Maybe you first start-up a corner-convenience store, then you build a park, a canal, and ultimately a new neighborhood in the city.
When you become an architect, you publish your own map. You also use different ledgers, you have to. The city is sophisticated/complicated, and you need the jargon/symbols to describe things. Hopefully, you have not forgotten about the lessons you learned as a starter, and you are emphatetic, so your legends are easier to follow. But when another stranger arrives in the city, as helpful as your map and guide is, they need to learn their way around themselves inevitably. Of course, you will give them a hand and provide enough scaffolding to learn safely.
Having/cultivating the following attitudes help you navigate this process better:
- curiosity: being adventurous, asking a lot of questions, and not being content with your own corner helps the most.
- relentlessness: not giving up, and putting in the hard physical and emotional work. Your success in this endeavor depends on emotional management for the most part.
- being a hands-on maker: not just being a tourist or spectator. You should get involved, you should walk the streets and participate in the bazaar.
- being social, learning to communicate well: for this you should cultivate good written and verbal communication skills. To level up to an architect, you will need to do some community organizing.
- analyzing and drawing lessons: this is how you make sense of things and learn meta-lessons.
- leveraging previous experience: If you have visited/explored many cities before, you can transfer some of your experiences (at least the emotional and attitude management), and learning this new city becomes easier.
