Instead of talking about technology, let’s talk about tech life. In fact, the growth of technical people also have routines to follow, may be persistent, may be skilled in attendance, may be Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish…… Secretly, the core founding team of Meituan, including Founder Wang Xing, co-founder Mu Rongjun, co-founder Wang Huiwen, as well as SVP (group senior vice president) of all business lines, have written code, so technology can really achieve a better life.
The tech gurus’ experience is precious and hard to replicate. But there are certain traits that can always be learned from budding techies. After interviewing these meituan technology leaders, Meimei summed up a precious point: they all love reading and like to learn from books. On this special day, we also asked them to recommend their favorite book, and many technology gurus sent us “growth secrets”, let us learn together!
Meituan CTO Luo Daofeng
Recommended book: Data Mining By Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei
Why we recommend it: The classic textbook of data mining of database school, worth reading.
Recommended book: The Datacenter as a Computer By Urs Hoelzle/Jimmy Clidaras/Luiz Andre Barroso
Why you should check it out: This book explains the real architecture behind the buzzwords cloud computing and big data, treating an entire data center as a supercomputing node and designing the hardware and software for them.
The secret to growth: There is no secret to growth, just keep breaking through your boundaries.
Recommended book: “Grove’s First Lesson for Managers” By Andy Grove
Why you should check it out: This book introduces the concept of “leverage,” which is the ability to produce multiple times what you give in a good way. Everyone who wants to produce good results and achieve success in work and career should strive to pursue the role of “high leverage”, such as organizing teams to work together efficiently, building an effective technical architecture at a higher level, developing convenient tools to make r&d more efficient, and so on.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, being curious, and constantly learning are the best qualities a programmer can have.
Recommended book: The Lean Startup By Eric Rees
Why you should check it out: It’s a must-read for anyone who works on the Internet, and it’s the source of phrases like “MVP” (minimizing viable products) and “growth engines.” Many teams in Meituan are doing things from 0 to 1, with too many things to do but too few resources. This is the most common problem when doing new projects. This book describes how to do in this situation from a scientific perspective, which is worth repeated reading and understanding.
Growth secrets: write more code, learn more communication.
Recommended book: The Art of Computer Programming By Donald Knuth
I read this book when I was in school. Although I have been working for many years, I often reread it in my spare time. Only lay a good foundation, can go further.
Growth secrets: Stay Foolish, Stay Hungry, keep an open mind, can accelerate growth.
Recommended book: On Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins
Because with all the talk of the coming age of artificial intelligence, this book not only introduces the state of neuroscience research into the brain, the vehicle of human intelligence, but also offers some insightful insights. Such as explaining intelligence based on a hierarchical memory-prediction framework. In addition to understanding deep learning, enhanced learning and other technologies, we can broaden our horizons.
Growth tips: Love technology from your heart and change the world with technology.
Recommended book: Refactoring – Improving the Design of Existing Code By Martin Fowler
Technology is a craft, and good code reflects a programmer’s culture and taste.
Growth secret: more practice, more thinking, practice to collect cognitive materials, thinking to establish a framework of knowledge.
Recommended book: The Nature of Technology By Brian Arthur
Recommended reasons: Technical students can look at technology beyond specific technical details, and produce more business-oriented thinking. Product students should also learn the logic of technology development, the innovation process, and the close relationship between technology and business.
As a technical person, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
Recommended book: Refactoring – Improving the Design of Existing Code By Martin Fowler
Why you should check it out: Martin Fowler’s most important book and one of the must-read books for advanced programmers. Building a system is a process of gradually deepening the cognition of things and gradually improving them. Reconstruction is one of the most important guarantee means in the iterative evolution of the system and an indispensable skill in today’s agile development. In small ways, it tells us what good design is and summarizes many ways to improve design without destroying the status quo. From a large point of view, it is also a way to do things, so that we can be more calm in the face of the big stones in the work, small steps run quickly, constantly iteration forward.