Yanjing Electric Power University is less than an hour's walk from Baidu's headquarters and only ten minutes' taxi ride away.
Therefore, Meng Fanqi was not in a hurry, but continued to review the PPT and the angle of the speech with Han Ci.
After about another forty or fifty minutes, the content is basically complete.
Meng Fanqi had to sigh, smart people are smart people. Even in areas that you are not familiar with, you can quickly understand the other party's logic and ideas.
In the past 40 to 50 minutes, more than half of the time was spent by Meng Fanqi describing the context of his previous PPT.
Why do you do this? What do you want to show and compare?
Han Ci was basically understood immediately upon hearing it, and Meng Fanqi often doubted whether he really needed to finish what he said.
In the next twenty minutes or so, Han Ci asked Meng Fanqi to confirm some questions and details, and then quickly explained his content and logic.
Meng Fanqi thought about it very carefully, but couldn't find any problem, so he had to give up.
Han Ci was very proud to have returned to his familiar rhythm. He was in a good mood and felt that his IQ had reached a high point again.
She has always been a bit afraid of trouble and often lacks enthusiasm for most things. Today she even thought it was interesting to go to Baidu headquarters. The two decided to go together and have a meal together after Baidu's matter was over.
After all, it’s not too close to the North Fifth Ring Road. Since we’ve met, let’s chat more and make things clear.
After sending a message to communicate, Baidu responded quickly, and the two of them were ready to go there now.
"Speaking of which, I have never been to a big company like Baidu." Han Ci was still a little curious about the office buildings of technology giants. "In movies and TV shows, such large companies are always crowded, but orderly. A sense of order.”
"This is your wishful thinking. We always hope that things are in order, and we always selectively forget or ignore it. The more people there are, the more chaos will become."
Meng Fanqi said this naturally based on his own experience of working in large factories several times, "On the surface it looks orderly, but in fact it's all headless flies. Of course, the company's senior management actually doesn't care that much, or they Don't have the energy to care.
Who knows, as long as the employees below are busy all day and burn the midnight oil, they will be content. "
Even during this period, around 2013-2014, American giants like Google had begun to allow working from home or more flexible work schedules to a certain extent.
In the letter of intent issued by Google to Meng Fanqi, it was even more special, giving him complete freedom to study and start a business.
It’s just that the reporting of research results needs to be on time, and the quantity of research results has certain indicators.
To put it bluntly, this is the OKR management method that everyone often talks about later, which only focuses on whether your tasks and key indicators have been completed. It is a more humane management method to not interfere too much with your specific time arrangements and working methods.
However, according to Meng Fanqi’s experience of working in large factories two or three times, until 2023, the management methods of Internet companies in China still attach great importance to overtime and jail time.
“In fact, the scariest thing is the kind of person who has no life of his own. It is understandable that capitalists and company executives like to see employees working overtime.
The employees themselves have no hobbies, no interests, nothing they want to do, and no future life plans. When I'm not in the company, I have nothing to do and nowhere to go, so I sit in jail all day long in the company, inducing involution. This is the saddest thing. "
Meng Fanqi has encountered more than one or two colleagues like this. Some of them are maliciously involved, and some of them are not actually malicious.
He has also visited the residences of one or two of the old brothers, which are usually small cubicles of one or two thousand people, or small dwellings of about twenty square meters.
There was basically nothing inside except simple bed linens and clothing.
Ingredients and kitchen utensils are basically zero. The furniture is minimal, and everything is kept simple.
There was even an old man who didn't even have a second chair to entertain Meng Fanqi at home, so he had to find a cardboard box temporarily.
In this way, Meng Fanqi can actually understand why they always stay in the company.
Whether it's free water and electricity, company meals, insulation, or even snacks and the Internet, everything is much more comfortable than a rental house at home.
Meng Fanqi had no doubt that these people would even live in the company directly if they could have five square meters of space in the company.
Meng Fanqi changed his perspective and told Han Ci these things. After listening, Han Ci stopped talking twice.
For her, who was pampered and had a smooth life growing up, such an extremely poor spiritual world and material conditions were unimaginable.
Meng Fanqi smiled, opened the door of the black taxi and let Han Ci get in. "You may feel that they are particularly pitiful when you hear this, but then think about it. During the rise of Baidu Penguin and Ahri, how many people took the express train of the Internet and achieved financial freedom. A few years of hard work have changed Two apartments in a first-tier city.”
"There are so many other more difficult industries in our country, such as coal mining, metallurgy, engineering, civil engineering, etc. What is the suffering of programmers compared to them? But all these sufferings can only be seen. Time is valuable.”
"Discourse is right." This sentence summarized by Han Ci is one of the strongest metaphors and one of the most powerful philosophical propositions that the French philosopher Foucault contributed to the world in his inaugural lecture "The Order of Discourse."
This proposition regards discourse as a powerful social force that dominates and enslaves social practice subjects. Foucault defined this force as "power" and derived a famous philosophical proposition: discourse is power.
"This phenomenon is especially true in the era of the Internet. I personally feel that since Iphone4s, our Internet has begun to shift from the PC side to the mobile phone side. In the next few years, the Internet will continue to sink along with mobile devices. Until the vast majority of citizens use smartphones.”
Han Ci took out her silver Iphone 5s and looked at it. She really liked her new iPhone, but she had never thought carefully about the impact it would have on society and the world.
"But mobile payment is really convenient. I basically don't carry any change with me now." Ahri strongly promoted mobile payment and Internet finance in 2013, which has subtly influenced the consumption habits of hundreds of millions of people.
"What I am going to demonstrate now is also an algorithm technology specifically for mobile devices such as mobile phones. It mainly detects what objects are present in the captured images."
After talking so much, Meng Fanqi remembered that he had not yet told Han Ci what he would do in detail.
