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寫作
新年新希望有一項是可以寫不是廢話的blog文章。 雖然目前只想把這個地方當做自己的祕密發洩出口，但也該來找回一點什麼寫字的感覺了，就把這裡當練習場吧。
原本的願望太高了，希望是用英文寫作，當然一方面也是希望這樣能幫助自己找工作。前陣子翻了一下那些有名氣的中文部落客，驚覺自己常常在連用中文都表達不清的狀況下，居然還好高騖遠的想寫英文部落格？（啊，沒錯，這裡就是要多練習成語。）最近也開始看女人迷上面的文章，尤其是分享異國生活的類型，常發現作者有一定的機率比我小。唉呀、文字這種東西就是不鍛鍊就會退步的很快，如果我也想要像他們一樣分享有趣的異國生活，真的是要先下功夫把文字感練回來呢。
好久沒有在這種環境底下打字了，果然白底黑字就會讓人不自覺的像在寫文章，連標點也講究了起來。那麼、無意義的廢話及抱怨還是留在批兔的黑底白字世界裡啦！
雖然說Monday Blue似乎是上班族的通病，但每天早上醒來都很不想上班的那種感覺真的很不開心。雖然現在工作量不多，但也許就是因為不多，進而覺得自己沒用，覺得自己沒什麼貢獻，無從發揮，也不得成長。 一直希望當我有能力工作了，不在只是接收知識的學生，我能夠做一些有意義的事情，能夠有洞見、有影響力、予人信賴感。不過我也一直都不是什麼優秀的學生，怎麼會有這種不安於小螺絲釘的想法呢？仔細想想，大概是因為我一直身在一個令我驕傲的群體裡面：北一、台大、CalArts，很市儈的只看排名的話，這些真的都是上上之選。現在的我對公司沒用認同，對工作沒用熱情，不論公司或工作內容似乎都不是什麼能讓我講出來後可以嘴角上揚的... 我也許還不到雞首，但我真的寧願當牛後
To fail or not to fail
Last night my friend ask John Maeda a question about switching career path. John said that the best way to prepare is to make mistakes and fail hard. So, am I too afraid to fail so I act controversially, not making big change in my career, or by doing that I'm slowly failing my life?
A conversation with John Maeda and design leaders from eBay
Tonight I went to the event, A conversation with John Maeda and design leaders from eBay, held by AIGASF and located at Zendesk, where they have a beautiful and huge space for events!
To be honest, I really have a small database of well-known designers in the world, especially I'm really bad at memorize English names. It took me a while even memorizing Jony Ive. (Steve Jobs is not in this case though.) Anyway, I wouldn't have been to this amazing sharing by John Maeda if AIGA wasn't looking for volunteers. Thank you AIGA for giving me this opportunity!!! Now I know who John Maeda is and what great works he has done.
John is really a great speaker. I felt fully concentrated and engaged while he was talking. He shared about his thought process before coming to Silicon Valley and after, and the relationship between design and Silicon Valley. Does Silicon Valley need design? Or, is that design needs Silicon Valley?
The part that I also thought about a lot is when John was talking about "Top-Down". In any given company structure, people on top have more power to make decisions, so any change from bottom up will be hard and little. It's clear that the more the leader thought about design, the greater the company can grow. That's why when he saw John Donahoe, eBay CEO, and Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO, had a meaningful conversation on the stage, it gave him a ratatouille-moment. They are both CEOs and they both know the value and importance of design.
Watching him talking about how the CEO brought design thinking into the huge company and had the courage to try new stuff, I'm really moved. I want to make change in the place I'm working with, but I feel lots of resistance, and don't know if I'm should insist to push it forward, or the leaders are the one that should take the move. The more talks I went, the more expectations I put on our leaders, and I'll look back at myself thinking that maybe I'm not trying enough?
Borrowing his words, I'm also thinking about how to elevate the value of design thinking, but actually what I need to do is to reveal the value of design thinking. This shouldn't be anything new, but I look at this as a strategy to talk about design to non-designers, and it's brilliant! I'll have to think about how to implement it from now on.
Ref: eBay.com/design which they launched today!
Journey Begin
This will be a place to arrange my thoughts, establish my perspective toward the world, sharing and commenting on design news, and simply diary of my life.
It's always difficult to start at the beginning, so I'm writing this down before going to bed. It's an easy start, which I want to remind myself of the purpose of creating this tumblr blog -- to take away the stress of writing a real blog post.
Take it easy and make it long.
together we'll knit this life a sweater of stories
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