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"72.8% of households in China do not have a study, and the per capita study area is only 0.65 square meters."
——"2021 China's Study and Reading Status Insights"
The picture shows the device made by Dangdang.com: the per capita study area is less than the size of a toilet
"Quiet Reading, Taiwan Refueling"
Recently, writer Haruki Murakami gave an exclusive interview to Nikkei. In an interview, he talked about his thoughts on the radio shows he was attending:
"I used to think I wasn't good at words, so I never did a job other than writing. However, in the process of giving speeches abroad, I gradually got used to expression, and after trying to be a DJ, I found that I could chat."
"I'm a record collector with about 15,000 records. After I proposed the project with the feeling of "if you have this kind of music, let's listen to it", various ideas came out. It's ready to air for two or three years."
"I basically did the show out of love. I've been in a literary environment, and when I came to the radio station, it was full of weird people, and the atmosphere was very different, very interesting."
"Now you can hear any kind of music on the Internet. On-demand music is almost meaningless. I think the point is that the player picks the music themselves and plays it."
"My principle is to play music that other shows don't have. Hopefully, once out of 3, the listener will be surprised that "there is still this kind of music."
There is a service in Japan called Staff Start, which provides social media influencer services for store staff. However, the cooperation between stores and store staff is emphasized, rather than self-employment of self-employed people.
This service is well suited to the transformation of the "bookstore clerk", whose value is not only "a place to buy books", but also to highlight the value of a good bookstore clerk: his connoisseurship, her self-selected bookshelf.
On June 30, the 35th Arthur Clark Awards announced this year's shortlist, and Chinese writer Hao Jingfang's novel "Vagabonds" was shortlisted.
The English version of "Wandering Firmament" was translated by Liu Yukun, the translator of "The Three-Body Problem". Los Angeles Review of Books review: Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" has opened up a market for Chinese science fiction literature, and as the first Chinese female writer to win a Hugo Award, Hao Jingfang has a unique readership at home and abroad.
Content creation
Lawrence Yeo, blogger of the blog More To That, summarizes three ways of creating frequency versus quality:
The first is quantitative, spending only a limited amount of time on each work, and the content is relatively mediocre, with no classical output.
In the second case, you may think you are creating a classic, but lack a lot of practice before creating a classic to perfect your ability.
The third, and the best rhythm that bloggers advocate: create frequently, refine your skills, and once you come across a topic you want to delve into, invest time and effort into creating something lasting.
Author Margaret Atwood shares writing tips:
Exercise the muscles of the back, where the pain can be distracting.
Sharpen your attention before grabbing your reader's attention.
No one can write something that everyone likes.
Accept reality: Others can help, but most of the time, writing is going it alone.
No one forced you to become a writer, so don't complain if you choose this line of work.
Don't look for a lover to try out the work, or wait to break up.
When writing stuck, imagine your book already published.
Stripe's internal approach to writing principles:
Have someone read your article, ask them what they remember, and then delete everything else.
Information Acquisition
Writer Robert M. D. Richardson, after writing a trilogy of biographies: "Thoreau," "Emerson," and "William James," summed up the method of studying the characters: "Read all the books they have read, and follow the evolution of their knowledge in the order in which they read them."
In addition to the right to know, people should also have the right to be unaware, which is much more valuable. It means that the soul doesn't have to be filled with crap and empty talk. Excessive information is an unnecessary burden on a person who lives a fulfilling life.
--Solzhenitsyn
"When you're faced with countless tabs in your browser that open after clicking on a hyperlink, you might try this."
——" Read First, Then Use Hyperlinks (bookthing WeChat public account article)
There are no smart people from all walks of life that I have met who don't read every day, not a single one. Buffett reads so much, and I read so much, that might surprise you. My kids laughed at me, and they all thought I was a two-legged book.
—Charlie Munger
A word or two
After more than ten years of hard study, entering top universities, familiar with cutting-edge technology, entering the Internet factory, holding a high salary of 996, the most important job is: deceiving people to click more "continue to draw".
——twi:shrugged_hi
After meeting a few friends of Phoenix Press and adding their WeChat, I saw a row of self-introductions of "I am xxx of the Order of the Phoenix", which produced an illusion that he had become Dumbledore...
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For me, spending time with others, even with the people I love the most, can get bad. I lost my center of gravity and felt confused and confused. I had to have my own moments of solitude so that I could chew on everything that happened and understand the real impact its outcome had on me."
——《Jounal of a Solitude》May Sarton
The only person who can ruin a day's interest is a person, and if you can do a day without dealing with people, then every day will be extremely happy. It's always people who stand in the way of enjoying a pleasant day, except for a very small number of people who are as beautiful as spring.
—— "A Feast of Flow", Hemingway
"Learning" and "education" are two different things. Education is a top-down system, and the meaning of existence is to train people to serve this society. Learning is a spontaneous act, because of interest and thus want to know more.
——Seth Godin
If you argue that abortion is murder, why can't women claim it is justified in self-defense?
—Guido Ceronetti, Italian poet
You can only enjoy your leisure when your work is piled up. When you have nothing to do, being idle becomes not at all fun, because being idle is your job, and it's the most draining work. Leisure is like kissing, and when it is stolen, it tastes sweet.
—The British writer Jerome K. Jerome
Share your findings
The International Score Network shares music in the public domain around the world. There are currently 585,347 sheet music scores, which are still growing.
https://cn.imslp.org/wiki/%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5
Leiden University's newly launched electronic archive of Chinese folk poetry includes photocopies of dozens of poetry journals such as "Today", "Them", "Non-Non-Non", "Maritime" and so on, which can be read online.
https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/unpo
"The Book Depository map", which shows in real time what bookstores are selling what books. For example, one minute ago, someone in Ireland bought a copy of the 48 Laws of Power; seven minutes ago, someone in Canada bought a copy of The House of Earth and Blood.
https://www.bookdepository.com/live
"Life is hard, more interesting than happiness."
——"Replace "happiness" with "satisfaction" (bookthing WeChat public account article)
A Dictionary of Phrases and Fables, which introduces the origin, provenance, or origin of common English phrases, allusions, and words with stories.
https://www.bartleby.com/81/
"My lover, no coral-like red lips, no goddess-like appearance, but God testifies that in my heart, no one can compare with her." 」
—Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare Read aloud: Alan Rickman