Some thoughts triggered by WeChat mini-programs

Finally, the mini program arrived as promised, and as expected, it created a whirlwind. Various hot articles once again ignited the circle of friends, and our leisure time was once again filled with hot topics.

January 9, 2017 must be a day of special significance to Zhang Daxian. I saw this report this morning: Zhang Xiaolong posted a circle of friends immediately, with only 6 pictures. The first picture showed that the first generation iPhone was released on January 9, 2007.

This reminds me of what he once said: Product managers , like God, look down on all living beings, know their desires, and then set some rules for them and let them operate according to these rules. When you do this, you will be like God and have the sense of accomplishment that God has.

What exactly does the mini program want to do? One of the easier ones to find is: improving efficiency. In Zhang Xiaolong’s words, it means: use it and leave.

So, our lives seem to be able to speed up again, and some people have excitedly uninstalled many apps.

WeChat is truly a magical product. It connects almost all Internet users in China. The picture below is from Analysys International. With such a huge number of monthly active users, it occupies the top of the 80/20 principle.

Think about it again, WeChat does more than just connect people. It also connects people with services and even businesses, and now there is a trend of connecting people with things. This is a god-like product that makes every other APP unable to compare with it.

But think about it again, when was WeChat born? When I was using the mini-program example, I stumbled upon something interesting (as shown below), which reminded me that WeChat was only born six years ago.

Really, the world is speeding up.

Moore's Law seems to still be in effect, technology is still advancing by leaps and bounds, the Internet seems to be always booming, pigs blown by the wind seem to never stop, AlphaGo has returned with a stronger attitude, and artificial intelligence seems to have been able to quickly surpass thousands of years of human accumulation in a very short period of time...

I can't help but think of Liu Bichev's life, he used pen and paper to practice the event recording method, but we can just pick up a timelogger...

The world is speeding up. However, what is even more frightening is that life expectancy is increasing. I remember that both Wu Xiaobo and Luo Zhenyu said this: Our generation may very likely live to be 100 years old.

Therefore, it is easy for us to find that it is no longer a case of 30 years in the east and 30 years in the west. It is very likely that the situation will change over time. It is even possible that things will go differently one year. You don't even have to look hard to find these cases. Just look at the people around you who have bought houses and you will know.

However, we can easily find that the world is accelerating and anxiety is gathering. Some people say: People who are too close to the times will be more anxious. Indeed, our daily lives are filled with various software, entertainment, games , and information. Information overload is no longer a legend. The fast pace and the instinct for speed make us more anxious. Many people seem to want to become famous overnight, and want to jump onto the cusp of the trend...

How many people are still addicted to watching TV series, playing games, watching short videos, and interacting with friends... and can't extricate themselves. The powerful driving force brought by business drives product managers to continuously study user psychology - whether it is greed, anger, ignorance, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, consumer psychology, etc. Everything is done to make users more addicted, and everything is done to encourage users to buy, buy, and buy. Really, we are all driven by dopamine, constantly pursuing the slim promise of pleasure.

This is the worst of times, and the best of times.

A relatively easy prediction to make is that there are many of us with many opportunities to make a lot of wealth. As we live longer, we become more efficient. You know, our life expectancy has become so long that it is a little hard to imagine: the age of forty only means that we have just lived half of our life. But the times are still accelerating, which means that opportunities are still coming.

So, it’s better to take it slow, which is faster. Really, the time is very long, so long that it is unimaginable, even terrifying. Blindly chasing after the times and hot topics is not the best strategy that suits human nature. Look to the future, refuse to be filled, less is more likely to be more.

Profound people will become more profound, and superficial people will become more superficial. This is the best of times, and the worst of times.

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