I saw the Liqi Community Project a long time ago. I learned a lot from everyone’s sharing. As stated in the beginning: “Tools and inspiration are both Liqi. When tools and inspiration from different fields collide with each other, more possibilities will emerge.“ Below are my simple answers to the 6 questions from the Liqi Community Project. I hope this can help everyone in some way.
Introduce Yourself and Your Work?
I am an Android system development engineer, working in the system R&D department of a certain phone manufacturer. My work mainly involves Android system-related tasks, such as performance, power consumption, stability, framework maintenance, etc. The work is quite diverse, dealing with various miscellaneous tasks.
As for hobbies, basketball, running, and gaming - these essential skills for programmers - naturally cannot be lacking; reading, raising cats, drinking tea - these artsy hobbies for young people also must not be neglected; in my spare time, I like to browse Bilibili and YouTube; when I have time, I complete unfinished articles I left behind; currently I’m obsessed with weight loss, fighting a desperate battle with my belly.
What Hardware Are You Using?
Computers: I mainly have three computers. One MacBook Pro for coding, writing my small apps, and processing photos; one company-configured desktop, Ubuntu system, mainly used for work, essential for compiling Android source code; one self-configured desktop, mainly used for gaming and compiling AOSP code.
Phones: I have three phones. My main device is iPhone X, and I’m satisfied with everything except the battery life. My backup device is a OnePlus 6, an Android flagship - as an Android engineer, I still need to have one usable Android machine. Another one is a Pixel, mainly used to run the AOSP code I compiled myself - essential for amateur framework learning.
Other Hardware: Apple family’s Watch, iPad Pro, AirPods; Sony’s large noise-canceling wireless headphones MDR-1000X; Kindle Voyage, dedicated for reading e-books.
What About Software?
- Things3: Mainly used for arranging daily work and recording things to do
- MWeb: Coding专用, this article is written with MWeb
- Keep: A good fitness assistant, some courses can be followed, mainly for recording. Sometimes there’s a goal, it’s better to persist than without a goal, especially when running (I recommend the HIT treadmill for running training)
- Dolphin Ledger: An accounting app, basically necessary.
- Kindle && WeChat Reading: Reading apps. The two book libraries can complement each other. E-books are quite convenient, especially when reading on iPad Pro.
- YouTube && Bilibili: Learning and entertainment, basically rely on them.
- ShadowSocks && Wingy, Basically using ShadowSocks on Android and Mac. Using Wingy on phone and iPad. What’s convenient is having a small plugin. Sometimes the software gets killed, and the small plugin switch is very convenient.
- Dedao Time && Get: Knowledge payment apps. Three people walking together, there must be my teacher. I personally think that listening to what others are doing, what they’ve done, how they did it - it’s quite beneficial for my own improvement. It saves me from taking many detours.
- Google Photos: Basically all my photos are here. I’m really afraid that one day I won’t be able to access them. I’ll probably cry to death…
- Reeder: I previously maintained a developer’s RSS feed list, and I personally use Reeder3 to read it.
- Android Studio && VS Code: Productivity software. One is used to view Framework Java code, one is used to view C\C++ code.
- RescueTime: Mainly used to record work time. I can check where I spent my time every day after coming back. It supports all platforms (though on iOS you can only view, not record; on Mac you can record; on Android, Ubuntu, and Windows you can both record and view). Sometimes when I look at my work time of a few hours, it makes me want to cry…
- Shimo Docs: Recording my daily reports, weekly reports, and some research content. Supports all platforms, synchronization is very convenient, and multi-person collaboration efficiency is also high. The web client is best to use.
- Jianguo Cloud: Cloud storage supporting all platforms. Upload materials once, never worry about losing them again (direct Ubuntu support is too friendly to programmers).
- Yinxiang Notes: Previously used for recording, now more used as a collection center. When I encounter good articles, I usually record them here, then organize and review them later. Daily work recording is all handed over to Shimo Docs now.
What’s Your Ideal Work Environment?
The ideal work environment is Work Life Balance, just like what the recently popular 996 project describes. My current work situation is about the same, so I hope my work environment is what’s described in the 955.WLB project: work-life balance.
The greatest pressure 996 gives people is having no time of their own to improve themselves. They’re busy until 10 or 11 PM every day. Going back to take a shower and go to sleep. There’s simply no time for fitness, reading, learning, etc. As this article The most subtle way to destroy a person is to keep them so busy they have no time to grow says:
If a person only learns from the work process, then this single learning method will inevitably lead to its marginal contribution to growth becoming increasingly low.
You must make yourself have time to grow every day. Actually, this is to let you expand other growth methods beyond work. The more diversified your learning methods are, the higher the marginal contribution to growth will be. The faster you will grow.
A person must have continuous incremental growth in their career.
To sum up, my ideal work environment: having colleagues who share the same aspirations, having work that I love, having space and time for my own growth.
What Are Your Ways to Get Work Inspiration?
One is reading, extracting the essence from others’ thoughts to see if they can be used by me or improved or carried forward; the other is thinking and recording, drawing flow diagrams while thinking, recording the spark of certain thoughts.
However, no matter how good the effect is, when I get busy, I rarely have time to read and think. I ask all the great gods for guidance.
Recommend a Life Liqi to Everyone?
What I most want to recommend to everyone is not a certain hardware or software, but a learning method: Record-Summarize-Output. These three links form a loop:
Recording: We always say, good memory is worse than a bad pen, especially in this era of information explosion. Having your own recording method appears especially important. To-do items, occasional strange ideas that pop up, problems encountered and solution methods, good articles seen on certain websites, Blog posts to be updated, tutorial videos on YouTube, etc. - recording will make you appear organized.
Summarizing: Summarizing can gather previously scattered thoughts or knowledge together. Clear outlines help to look at a certain period or certain knowledge from an overall perspective. For example, project summaries can let us avoid the pitfalls in that project in future projects; summaries of certain knowledge points can let us understand this knowledge from points to surfaces, deepening the impression of this knowledge.
Outputting: Outputting can be private notes, Blogs, videos. Outputting is more about strengthening yourself by explaining to others. To explain clearly to others, you must be very familiar with the points you’re outputting; everyone’s discussion about your output will also strengthen your understanding of this knowledge point; outputting also helps others, while improving your own fame. If you’re strong, you have to let others know you’re strong too.
Finally
I recently went to Japan, catching the cherry blossom season. Let me end with a photo of cherry blossoms.
This article participated in “Liqi Community Plan”. Discover more creators and their tools: http://liqi.io/community/
About Me && Blog
Below is a personal introduction and related links. I look forward to communicating with colleagues in the same field. When three walk together, there must be my teacher!
- Blogger Personal Introduction: Inside are personal WeChat and WeChat group links.
- Blog Content Navigation: A navigation of personal blog content.
- Personally Organized and Collected Excellent Blog Articles - Android Performance Optimization Must Know: Everyone is welcome to self-recommend and recommend (private WeChat chat is fine).
- Android Performance Optimization Knowledge Planet: Welcome to join, thank you for your support~
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
