Accidental Hero

整理公司的历史，发现Heath Ledger曾在2005年出演Lords of Dogtown，一群came from nothing to change everything的滑板少年电影。同年这个人出演Brokeback Mountain。又三年后他被发现死在曼哈顿的家中。昨天在培训的时候提到这个已经死去的人时，只是报了个英文名，一个同事居然能记起。

天上白玉京，十二楼五城。仙人抚我顶，结发受长生。

我于是在课堂上说，很多人曾经影响过我们品牌的发展，有些人像流星一样已经过去了，有些人还活着。

晚上约了两个在ex-employer工作时结交的好朋友，在南京的中央商场，见面时抑制不住的奔过来互相拥抱。感觉自己并没有走远。还记得我们曾因为一场考试，错过了一场日食，是多么错误的决定。还记得四月一号时公开课，我放了张国荣的歌做背景音乐，结果在评价反馈表上，有人写音乐很好，有的人写音乐让他想睡觉。而现在的公开课，已经有人把TM上到四个小时，走进教室，也已经找不到熟悉的面孔可以打招呼聊八卦了。

李太白全集的中册终于在南京看完了，下册还没有开始看。

旧的一本素描簿已经画完了，紧接着要打开新的一本。还不知道要画点什么，但也总要画点什么吧。

兜兜转转，希望朋友们一切都好。

Q: What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?

A:

Geoff Rowley:

TOO MANY TO FOCUS ON ONE. LOSING CLOSE FRIENDS/FAMILY IS EARTH SHATTERING. CANCER IS ALSO TOUGH. AS IS DEPRESSION. ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE.

Tony Trujillo:

Genital Warts.

Dustin Dollin:

That question makes me sick, I don't think anyone is interested in my misery. Having the best life often comes with it's downsides. Most skaters are psychopaths. We have to be. Look at what we do to ourselves. Fun Life = Consequences. Enjoy kiddies you have a rough one ahead of you. But just remember you never know if the person next to you has had a tougher life then you. Keep your head up and try not to complain.

Anthony Van Engelen:

Nothing really. Everything bad that’s happened to me ends up being something good.

Johnny Layton:

Ankle problems, truck to the chin, double black eye's with a broken nose in baseball.

Ray Barbee:

Losing my dad to cancer was pretty tough. Not sure if that was the worst thing but I sure do miss him.

John Cardiel:

F**king my back up.

Chima Ferguson:

I fell on my face and split it open once.

Andrew Allen:

I try to take the bad with the good.

Chris Pfanner:

I try to forget my bad experiences, in order to create more space for the goodtimes.

Massimo Cavedoni:

Not sure about the worst.

Alex Olson:

Coming out of my mom.

Keegan Sauder:

So far I have been able to look back at times that were killing me and laugh at myself. Getting busted for some bullshit by the man always sucks.

Tony Alva:

Watch one of my friends die right in front of me and couldn’t do anything about it.

Steve Caballero:

I ignored God for 41 years of my life and was left with no hope or a true purpose for living, I felt like I was just existing on this planet with no rhyme or reason, but that all changed when I got saved and gave my life over the Christ Jesus to be my savior.

Christian Hosoi:

Got addicted to drugs.

Jeff Grosso:

Taxes, responsibility, age? I don't know, good question.

Bucky Lasek:

The scare of a 4th child. Wew!

 1.      Training Development made easy: Google & Flickr.

2.      在黑色底色的模板上做PPT带来的后果就是，Photoshop里面Ctrl+I的快捷命令用的特别多。

3.      为了要让手写的英文在纸上呈一条水平直线，纸张要和桌子边缘呈40度角。

4.      早晨上班的地铁上可以读多少书？30页。今天早上我的《李太白全集》从849页读到了879页。

5.      笔记本电脑和液晶显示器双屏双任务操作的要点是：用快捷键的时候要注意焦点。否则你本来要新开一个PPT的，结果Ctrl+N就让你新开了一张画布。

6.      同样关于双屏双任务的操作。要将打开的Photoshop程序从一个屏幕拖到另一个屏幕时，要连拖7记，分别是：命令菜单栏，工具栏，四个面板，还有一个当下打开的文件。如果你这是打开了不止一个文件，那么恭喜你，有的忙了。

7.      双屏双任务的截屏。不知道怎么弄。截下来就是两个显示器的图side by side。真晕，就像下面这样：

先是在某网站上搜索男士手拿包的帖子，然后上google直接用英文搜索men’s handbag, men’s purse, briefcase, leather gifts，穿插加入各奢侈品牌的名称作为搜索关键词。然后又嫌图片看起来不够过瘾，直接上flickr搜同样的关键词（但这次去掉了brand的名字），少说看了有四、五十个兼有严重恋物癖和暴露狂的人的包包里装的东西，并且仔细研读了每个人加在flickr照片上的notes（话说flickr上照片可以加注释真是邪恶的发明啊！）。发现：

• 不少人都会随身携带小巧的折叠雨伞。其中一位的note说这是“necessary for the British weather”。我决定采纳这种做法，‘cause you know, 上海这几天的天气也是相当的unpredictable。嗯，家里的小花伞是拿不出手的，明天先去无印良品看看。
• 几乎百分之百会带印刷品。这些印刷品包括：小说、名人传记（奥巴马的各种传记出镜率很高，很多人都随身携带）、杂志（大开本的时尚杂志居多，也有一定比例的科普杂志）、学术专著（往往是学生）。而且有一个特点，携带的印刷品大都不止一本。可以推测外国印刷品的纸张应该都不重，就像我们在上海的外文书店、邹韬奋西文书局看到的原版书一样，纸质轻薄，否则哪能一堆堆的随身携带。
• 大多数自称Geek的人的恋物癖非常严重，已经到了病入膏肓的程度。包里的东西摊开来能让你看到至少三四个品牌最新的、相当完整的产品线，而且附配件、充电器、存储介质、读卡器、连接线俱全。据我的不完全统计，出镜率最高的品牌是apple（手机和电脑），其次是Nokia（手机），再其次是SONY（PSP和VAIO），再其次就是IBM了（真的很少，只看见两台IBM电脑）.
• 随身携带化妆品、保养品的很少，带零食的没有。我只看到过两支唇膏，而且据称是因为refreshing的效果才带的。
• 嗯，带避孕套的倒是有一个，这个家伙的包里同时还有一本Bible和一本prayer book，基督徒真坦诚！

最后，我要分享最令我振奋的发现：不少的人会随身携带纸质笔记本。他们的notes中不会用notebook，因为这个词直接指laptop了。他们会用纸质笔记本的品牌来指称，所以就造成我经常看到Moleskine和filofax这两个单词。最夸张的一个家伙，在flickr的note里面添加了自己的blog的链接，讲述他的手机和笔记本的故事。我脑子一定是搭错了，居然兴致勃勃的地去点那个链接（我觉得当时我的脑子里不断听到有人跟我说：点它！点它！我就点了……）谁知道该blog还被贵国屏蔽了。还好我翻墙技术高超，还是翻过去了。墙外的世界果然精彩，这位超级变态的仁兄——让我喘口气，’cause我已经非常无语兼激动了——居然详细的描述了他从使用digital organizer转变到兼用PDA和Moleskine及Filofax的过程，并且无私的分享了他是如何将不同的事情/计划、按照不同的逻辑，记录在不同的organizers上的。兹将这部分内容原封不动的转抄如下：

Now, how could I be as flexible, as if using a digital organizer, but on paper without redundancy and still being able to have it only just two page flips away?

The answer is more than easy:

1. Short term projects/tasks/goals with known due dates will be put on the proper completion date (dated one week on two pages sheets - standart Filofax initial filling).

2. Short term projects/tasks/goals without known due dates or when date is not applicable will be written on the To Do pages (plain To Do pages with a checkbox on each line - standart Filofax initial filling).

3. Long term projects/tasks/goals with known due dates get a mention in the dated pages and get an underline with a project-specific fluo-marker color. A repositionnable, non-durable PostIt Index Tab marks the page on the notes pages (standart Filofax initial filling), where the elaboration of the named project will take place. Different actions, or steps to be taken concerning that moment will take their place at the corresponding dates, marked with the color of the project in question. (This coloring does not mean that I will have to carry around a whole set of text markers and PostIt index tabs. That's done during the fase called "debriefing" by me.)

In this field there's only Filofax (and the imilar systems, but hey, who cares about them ;-P) that's almost as flexible as my Palm OS Agendus, where, not only is every object (appointment, contact, note) freely expandable, but it has the possibility to let you create a sketch and/or a voice memo, or attach existing digital graphics to it.

4. Long term projects without known due dates will be on the same notes pages, will have no linkeage to the dated sheets.

5. Specifics (Filofax specific pages).

Although I admire the DYI initiatives and I value the creativity and flexibility that they both generate and provide, I find it utterly unnecessary to try to invent thing that are working perfectly for me, and correspond to my needs.

5.1 Groceries - Filofax has a great offer in this domain and I won't change it at all. As a matter of Fact I found it so useful that I created a similar template for the Agendus Notepad so that I can go on using it.

5.2 Birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions - even if there weren't any other reason to have organizers and reminders at all that would be the one single thing that makes my organizer invaluable. I have a complicated family, and have no memory at all for such things. Phones just don't work well for that, because if you dont give a precise hour for an appointment or so, you end up woken up at 00:00 (12:00AM) just to be informed that your niece has a Birthday, or your nephew has his birthday in some 12 hours.

6. Debriefing. There is one enormous inconvenience with digital organizers. No, it's not thinking about the charging, since if it's a smartphone you have to charge it regularly even it you're not usig its organizer functions.

The problem is, that sometimes the classification and reminder management and keeping track of some items is so well done automatically that we forget that those things are even there up until it's too late. I mean it runs smoothly and you think that it's insane to go take a look at the device each and every 10 minutes like the Crackberry owners do.

Here comes one unsuspected advantage of the paper solutions. Each and every one of them requires a periodical review (because it won't let you know about a due item with a beeping tone) and/or editing, additional work on it (for instance the coloring that I mentioned above). It usually does not take too long to do it, nor is it necessary to do it more than, depending on your work cycle, once a day or a week.

It consists in:

6.1 taking a look at the immediate future in the dated pages

6.1.1 if necessary/applicable, apply the colors to the items as mentioned above

6.1.2 review, prepare items necessary for the completion/execution of the mentionned entries

6.2 reviewing the To Do List

6.2.1 if necessary/applicable, add a mention on the corresponding dated page

6.2.2 same as 6.1.2

6.3 reviewing the notes pages -

6.3.1 do the technical stuff - coloring, PostIt sticking, only by doing that, even without the next point you have taken a look at the item and refreshed your ideas about it. Who knows, perhaps the solution will just so pop up in your mind precisely at the moment when you're not explicitely looking for it, but have been reminded about

6.3.2 do short "brainstorming" sessions on your own, whithout having to come to a decision/solution - just to give your brain food to mull on in the moments of "far niente".

That said I may proudly make the conclusion, that going back to Filofax is in no way a regression. Come what may. even if my Tréo explodes tommorow, i'm ready to face the everyday challeges of staying on top of things.

说实话这段号称more than easy的answer我到现在还没看完，我看到5.1 Groceries的二级目录的时候就直接崩溃了！当然看到6.3.1 do the technical stuff的三级目录的时候已经是心如死灰……神人！作为一个喜欢收集文具的人，已经完全找不到任何词汇来表达我此刻心中的感想了。我在flickr和他的Opera blog上都没有找到他的出生年月，但我相信他一定是处女座的，摩羯座也很喜欢秩序，但没有这么BT。好吧，这是题外话，让我们再转回来~

路程还远没有结束。

前面说到，我本人也是一个喜欢收集文具的人，家里的笔记本少说也有三十本左右了，包括出差的时候在酒店拿的、上海的礼品展览会上买的、奥利奥饼干送的、田子坊买的、迪斯尼公司的、环保纸张的、不环保纸张的，宣纸的、有横行线的、有细格子的、空白的，反正很多（笔也有很多，但这是另一个故事了），但是当我在google里键入Moleskine之后，还是被其中一条搜索结果吓了一跳：

Moleskine，发音为mol-a-skeen-a，源于法语鼹鼠皮，号称是世界上最好的笔记本之一，海明威、毕加索、凡高和天使爱美丽用过的本子（嗯，我们用起来压力好大啊），有一批忠实的用户群。如果你还不知道那是什么，可以到Flickr的这两个组里感受一下：

Flickr: Moleskinerie

Flickr: Moleskine: One Page at a Time

Moleskine除了可以用于设计、写作、记录白日梦以外，也越来越多的被用于时间管理。但目前Moleskine在国内大陆地区还没有正式代理，想买这种本子大概可以通过下面几种渠道：

北京地区

可以去emo+东西玩意看看，价格是小notebook 138元，大notebook 228元，reporter要138元。北京市内可以送货再付款，其它地区需要邮购。在网上订货最好打个电话确认一下。如果你有空又在北京，直接去一趟最方便。Moleskineer.cn上有人在那里购买过。缺点是价格较贵，北京以外地区购买不太方便，网上订货系统不太完善，我订过两次货均未得到确认。

上海地区

可以去设计共和，据Moleskine中国的Google Groups上说价格还比较公道，小notebook和reporter都是120元，大notebook是180元。缺点是不提供网上购买，上海以外地区无法购买。

托人从香港带

在香港可以从CitySuper以及Page One连锁书店（中环和时代广场地下都有分店）可以买到。价钱应该比上海北京便宜，但显然不是每个人都有条件去买的。

从eBay买

eBay上有一个专门买Moleskine的店，价格非常便宜，我买了四本小notebook加上邮费花了34美元，差不多70元一本，如果买的多更便宜。从美国寄到北京用了两个星期的时间。只要有外币信用卡（招商银行信用卡）就可以购买。缺点是时间较长，还要依赖中国邮政从业人员的职业素质和道德品质（我订阅的国外杂志有20%的丢失率）。

这差不多就是我目前知道的购买Moleskine的几个途径了，各有利弊，购买的人可以根据自己的情况权衡。如果你还知道什么购买途径，可以告诉我，我加在这里供大家参考。

嗯，真的感到压力很大，同时超级兴奋，估计直到现在肾上腺素的分泌还处在异常状态。总之这么一个NB的品牌的存在，对我来说就是上帝存在的最好证明，一本在手，夫复何求呢？

当然还是有所求的。这就是我马上就通过链接找到的这篇文章，居然有一帮人集合了他们的智慧和经验，搞出了一个Moleskine’s good friends-A crazy outdoor photograph trip of Writing Tools。这是一篇七千字的文章，配图59张，详述了各种书写工具的品牌、质量优劣、适用场合，从拍摄、取材、写作到排版，作者花了三个礼拜的时间。我没有力气再去摘选引用了，谨此奉上原文链接，献给和我一样“喜欢将所有的笔都带在身上的疯子”们：

http://www.moleskiner.cn/node/114

嗯，多齐全的一张shopping list啊，还等什么呢，我都已经想好了，第一站外滩设计共和，第二站福州路……准备好现金和卡，跟我来吧！

这就是flickr上那张引发出这么多精彩故事的照片： 

我不知道现在的培训是什么样子。没有美，没有设计，没有科学，缺乏常识，只有暴力和粗糙。它不应该是这个样子。

它应该是从具体到抽象（或从抽象到具体的）连续体（continuum）。到底是从抽象到具体还是从具体到抽象？这不是个问题！如果培训的内容是具体的，那就是从抽象到具体；如果培训的内容是抽象的，那就是从具体到抽象。

连续体的意思，就是要贯穿。如水银泻地，无微不至。又如羚羊挂角，无迹可寻。

贯穿什么？手段和目的。

只有贯穿了，才能成为一个连续体。

只有连续体，才能被接受。

有强调，但是不能重复。

有铺垫，但是不能颠倒。

有引导，但是不能欺骗。

有解读，但是不能随想。

静若处子，动如狡兔。

培训用的PPT或handout，应该是温和含蓄简洁的和风设计，加上博洛尼亚纯手工的傲慢奢侈派头，加上Steve Jobs和Garr Reynalds等一小撮人的presentation风格，最后加上我的雄姿英发涵咏蕴藉。

视觉的传达，一定要精准、高效、优美。

活动的执行，一定要周密、完备、天衣无缝。

英文字体一定要用Helvetica！

中文字体一定要是微软雅黑！

别再用office自带的剪贴画了，求你们了！

培训中最应注意的是什么？是“气”！

燃烧吧，小宇宙！

图：就是要这样的贯穿

2009年诺贝尔和平奖颁给了奥巴马。该不该？

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow有云：We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

看来诺贝尔的评委真没把奥巴马当外人。

Other impressive quotes about Judge:

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

(Matthew 7:12)

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/judge.html, or

http://www.quotes.ubr.com/quotes-alphabetical/j-quotes/judge-quotes.aspx, etc..

More quotes from Longfellow are to be found at:

http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/henry_wadsworth_longfellow_quotes.html.