生命的點點滴滴

 

你不能預先把人生的點點滴滴串在一起 ; 唯有未來回顧時, 你才會明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起. 所以你得相信, 你現在所體會的東西, 將來多少會連接在一起. 你得信任某個時間, 直覺也好, 命運也好, 生命也好, 或者業力. 這種作法從來沒讓我失望, 也讓我整個人生開始不同起來 !  

  Steve Jobes (1955-2011)

【30歲了，妳終於喜歡自己】

30歲最大的好處是，妳已經經歷過了一個完整的生命歷程，但在人生旅途裡卻還年輕。妳脫離了學校，遇見形形色色的人，學會保護自己；工作了幾年，有點小積蓄，終於可以自食其力，妳還規畫了一年一次的旅行；有幾個好的老朋友，你們會為彼此打氣與支持，不再覺得認識新朋友很重要；當然也談過了幾次戀愛，包含了那種不再單純而是算計的感情。然後，愛過人、也被人愛過；被傷害過，也同樣傷害過別人……而這些，都豐富了妳的生命。這些，都讓妳變成了現在的自己

這或許是我看過最誠實的私小說， 令人感動地不是揭露出不堪， 而是很坦蕩地說出當時的迷惘跟放縱。 讓許多對過往有陰影的人，欣然接受 正是因為那樣的過 往，才會建構了現在的自己 無論年輕時你犯了什麼錯，輟學、吸毒、濫交、偷 竊、 自暴自棄…或一副鳥樣被霸凌， 讓自己飛到都無法掌握的地方， 可某一天，當你回頭時， 都該對這一切感到微笑

 .................村上龍「看見無限透明的藍」

Competition Demystified Chapter 10 Into the Henhouse 筆記 (一)

 Chapter 10 

Into the Henhouse

They knew how to deal with advertisers, with local station affiliates and independents, with running news organizations, and with the entertainment component that made up a large part of the product they delivered to consumers. A fourth network, started by the engineer Allen DuMont, whose background was in the set manufacturing part of the business, lasted into the 1950s but then disappeared. Other efforts by entertainment companies like Paramount Pictures to establish themselves in the network broadcast game did not last very long. As it evolved in the three decades after the end of WWII, the network broadcasting business was only one segment of the complete industry that brought news, sports, entertainment, and advertising—which paid for the rest—into the American home

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The networks and the local stations produced national and local news, sporting events, and a range of other shows. The major entertainment pieces that filled the evening (prime time) hours—the comedies 喜劇, dramas, and made-for-television movies—they bought from the studios. The movie studios already had the experience and the infrastructure to produce this fare, and they leapt at ( 抓住機會) the opportunity to grow a new revenue stream after the government ended their direct ownership of movie theaters on antitrust grounds. 反托拉斯

The glamour of the movie business, even with the “movie” confined(侷限在) to the small-screen world of television, attracted a number of smaller players into the production business, to compete with the established studios. There was no shortage of creative talent pitching show concepts to the networks.

沒有對手的競爭: 提高市場障礙的求勝法則 Competition Demystified

Chapter 7  

The first obstacles : The record companies would not want to produce multiple versions of the same music, nor would the potential manufacturers of disc players be as eager to get involved without some guarantee of a large market 

The second potential obstacle was the relationship between cost and price. To be successful, the compact disc would have to be offered at a price that would be sufficiently competitive with the alternatives to attract enough customers to make the business profitable. The disc player would also have to be available at a price consumers would pay, The more difficult question was the cost of putting the music on a compact disc and moving it down the distribution channel until it reached the ultimate buyer. 

Demand and Supply

Within the U.S. market, they bought around 25 million records in 1979, less than 10 percent of the total number of LPs sold. As a group, these listeners had already shown a willingness to pay a 30 percent premium for digitally remastered records

The executives estimated that it would take around five years before even half of this market made the move to compact disc. They figured that annual demand would exceed 18 million discs by the third year after introduction and 120 million by the seventh year. 

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