Let's look at the present.

Hatsune Networks' expansion plan was actually very well planned before the IPO was completed.

As soon as the money is in hand, he can immediately do it step by step, and he doesn't have to worry about how much Gu Mo Jie stares at and personally every day.

He is just a helmsman, driving the ever-growing number of think tanks, each doing his job.

In the United States, he was busy for nearly a week, attending events, and meeting with various princes who were bought, and it was not until the Christmas holiday in the United States that he set foot on his way home.

It's New Year's Day 2014.

Flying back to Qiantang on a Boeing 787 plane, Gu Mojie didn't bother to go home, and lived directly in the Jiangnan Club, trying to feel a little quiet alone.

The more we experience the unimaginable pressure and hustle and bustle of the world, the more we need a peaceful place to keep our souls.

After all, the scenery of Jiangnanhui is much more profound than his "nouveau riche manor" on the Bamboo Creek Trail. Looking at those Southern Song Dynasty Gumei proudly opening in the snow, the feeling of open-mindedness is really indescribable.

Three friends in the cold year, a court is complete.

In the Jiangnan Club, Gu Mojie hired a Japanese girl to play tea ceremony for him and create some atmosphere for him to play chess alone.

Since 2012, for the battle between the "beginner" and Alpha GO, Gu Mojie has been practicing chess for a few months with Gu Li Feed, and he has gradually become slightly obsessed with playing chess - however, he has no time to practice as hard as others, he is the inventor of the Go robot, and of course knows how to combine the advantages of the human brain and the machine to create new chess paths.

Sometimes, he just needs to come up with a new idea, or even hire a famous person to finish it for him, and use a robot to make up for the obvious failure.

After studying so many disks every month, it has been more than a year now, and the level is "weird", which makes many masters say that they can't understand it.

The tea ceremony girl saw Gu Mojie sitting in front of the chessboard, opened the "Beginner" terminal next to her, and knew that Gu Mojie was going to play another game, so she kindly reminded: "Sir, after the Hatsune Cup is over, there are still guests who have not returned, they live next door, and they need to ......."

"It's been almost 10 days, right? Are there any contestants who haven't left? Gu Mojie was very surprised.

Although as the organizer of the "Hatsune Cup" Go tournament, even if the game is over, it will not drive people away, as long as the other party is willing, Jiangnan will always be able to eat and live, but after all, no chess player has such a cheek.

The tea ceremony girl immediately explained: "It's not a contestant, it's a guest, Master Wu Qingyuan." ”

Gu Mojie immediately understood that Wu Lao was already 100 years old, and his body was inconvenient and he couldn't stand the fatigue of the boat, so every time he came, he would at least stay for a long time.

Although Wu Lao has not done anything with anyone for almost 30 years, after all, he is an immortal master who has been invincible in the world for 50 years, and he can be invited to observe the first "Hatsune Cup", which is also a great face.

It can even be said that it has nothing to do with money, and people don't care about money at all.

What people care about is the improvement of the "chess path" brought about by Hatsune's intervention in the game of Go.

"Don't bother him, I'll go over and see how he's going." Gu Mojie does not have the shelf of the richest man in the world, and is completely an empty person in the eyes of others.

……

"Old Wu, are you in good spirits, you're still watching chess."

As soon as Gu Mojie entered the door, he saw that Wu Lao's face was ruddy, and he was in better spirits than when he saw him before he went abroad. There is a rare chess game in front of him, which is definitely not something that can be played by players in official competitions.

Originally, with Wu Lao's advanced age and low energy, it was impossible to play chess again. But because of the "beginner", a chess-playing robot, many times humans only need to make a simple judgment, and most of the mental work is done by the robot, so Wu Lao has the possibility of playing chess.

In this case, human beings only need to provide experience for the big picture and point the way.

Wu Lao has long eyebrows and sideburns, and his hair is silver, like Zhang Sanfeng and sweeping monks. Slowly raised his eyelids, only to see who was coming.

"Xiao Gu, the future is terrifying - I studied it, but it's your chess game."

Gu Mojie was stunned: "My chess game? I've never played chess like this. ”

"It's a variant of the game you took last month, re-enacted with a robot backwind."

When Gu Mojie heard this, he looked at the "historical record" on the terminal of the "beginner", and finally recognized it.

"Oh, it turned out to be a review of the Takemiya Masaki cosmic flow that I studied—oh no, I mean 'natural flow', you know."

"Yes, it's the 'natural flow.'"

When those three words were mentioned, there was a trace of light in Wu Lao's eyes that was not commensurate with his age.

"Just because you think that the likes of Masaki Takemiya should be called 'natural flows' instead of 'cosmic flows', it can be seen that you have already mastered the samadhi."

Masaki Takemiya was once an unborn master in the Japanese chess world, and he was also the last opponent of Wu Lao's life.

Wu Qingyuan's chess career began in the 1930s when he challenged the Japanese chess saint Honinbo Hideya; It ended in the 1980s when the fierce battle against Masaki Takemiya.

Later, as Wu Lao Fengping and Wu Gong Zhengshu also declined in chess power and gradually withdrew from the front line, this grievance could not be resolved.

Masaki Takemiya's style of chess, known as the "cosmic flow" by the world, is dominated by three consecutive stars (that is, three stars are placed in a row on one side of the chessboard), and the style of chess of the Ding Revolution generation has evolved Go from a sport that focuses on "field" to a sport that pursues "external potential".

But what Masaki Takemiya didn't expect was that it was precisely because his style of chess was too upside down the tradition that he became a style sought after by amateur chess players and laymen - if anyone who couldn't grab the opponent in chess would claim that he was also "trying to learn the cosmic flow", and then it seemed that he lost because he didn't learn Masaki Takemiya well, not because he couldn't do it well.

Masaki Takemiya has simply become a black cauldron maniac.

By the early 90s, as Masaki Takemiya's mental power declined and his chess skills were weak, the cosmic flow was inherited by no one and declined more and more. In the era when Korean-style Go pursued a thin-back style, Japanese Go completely declined, and no one talked about Masaki Takemiya.

Until the "beginner" turns all the formulas into nothing, so that all chess players are equal in front of the formula, and all beings are equal in front of the "micro-operation".

A while ago, Gu Mojie saw that all the chess tricks of the routine had been studied by the robot, so he dug out the "cosmic flow" that had been "behind" for 20 years in the pile of old papers and tried his hand.

He has a "beginner" in hand, and his deduction ability is naturally thousands of times that of ordinary chess players.

Even, he only needs to put the first thirty or forty steps of Masaki Takemiya's peak game back then, and then pinch it out later, and wash out some key games in the "beginner", not allowing the beginner to "directly copy the answer", but "learn from other answers to make mistakes and regenerate".

There is only one Masaki Takemiya in the world, and there is only one Masaki Takemiya's brain.

But with the help of the Go robot, you can make countless "high-imitation" Takemiya Masaki catch and fight each other, picking out those variants that have evolved naturally.

Just such a thought made Gu Mojie feel a lot of surprises, and even vaguely pondered a trace of heavenly dao.

He finally understood why Masaki Takemiya himself kept retorting when he heard that others called his genre "Cosmic Stream":

You're the cosmic stream!

Your whole family is cosmic flowing!

Lao Tzu's name is natural flow!

Gu Mojie didn't say what he thought at that time, but after Wu Lao looked at his game, he was actually solemn.

……

After the tea ceremony girl finished serving the tea, she flashed quietly. Only Wu Lao and Gu Mojie were left in the room, one old and one young.

At this moment, there were no outsiders watching, and Gu Mojie was not afraid of being said that he was rampant, so he begged for correction in front of Wu Lao.

"Masaki Takemiya's original intention was not necessarily to seize the external momentum - it was just that in that era, chess players paid too much attention to the field, so that in the competition and fighting on the ground, they invested too much, and 'the marginal cost of acquiring a unit area of land became too high', so Masaki Takemiya found a unique way to take advantage of the external potential.

However, Masaki Takemiya will never give up on the ground, and he has always maintained the pressure on the field, putting on a posture that he will slash on the ground anytime and anywhere. That's why he was able to keep his opponent's 'marginal cost of acquiring a unit area' at a high level. Otherwise, he will harvest the external momentum quickly, and the opponent can also harvest the ground comfortably, and it will definitely be Masaki Takemiya who loses, where can he win so many world championships.

That's why he called himself a 'natural flow' - the so-called natural flow, of course, must follow the way of nature, buy the sky when the sky is cheap, buy the land when the earth is cheap, like water returning to the bottom, no matter where you go. And once he is set under the banner of 'cosmic flow', which has to pursue 'heaven', his flexibility will be gone, and his opponent will be able to reap the ground without courage. Therefore, the people who call Masaki Takemiya's school the cosmic stream have all learned to draw tiger dogs. ”

Gu Mojie took three sips and drank the slightly cooler tea.

"The future is terrifying, it's rare that you, a person who does business, can also see this." Wu Lao was very pleased, his eyes were a little moist, "Eighty years ago, when the old man was just competing for the world championship, he developed a habit of watching "Lao Tzu" before playing chess. But I haven't seen people with this habit for decades. You can break the formula, extinguish the micro-exercises, and reopen the day, even if you don't play chess yourself, your future contribution to the chess path will inevitably not be under the old man and Masaki Takemiya. ”

Wu Lao said, also shivered and drank a small half of tea, sighed for a while, and asked: "When I played against Masaki Takemiya thirty years ago, I realized the true essence of the cosmic flow, but the way of describing it is not the same as yours. How do you, a businessman, think of such depths? ”

Gu Mojieyun said lightly: "Actually, it's nothing, I've done a lot, I've seen a lot, I've seen everything, and I naturally have this kind of life perception - for example, I'm in the Internet business, but I never talk about 'Internet thinking' like Lei Jun under my subordinates, or other people, or the bosses of other companies."

Once I emphasized internet thinking, I was bound by internet thinking. Then it's not that I'm on the Internet, it's that I'm online.

Lei Jun especially likes to emphasize Internet thinking - anyway, the Xiaomi mobile phone he sells is a refurbished machine, and the warranty is also low. After more than two years, he has become more and more 'Internet thinking', and the web lingers like spider silk, making him unable to get out.

But everyone's emphasis on 'Internet thinking' will inevitably lead to a spike in the price of traffic on the Internet, and everyone will let brick-and-mortar stores go out of business, and one day the rent of commercial real estate will fall." Naturally, there will be a day when the per capita advertising traffic cost of customer acquisition on the Internet will be higher than the per capita room rental cost of offline commercial stores.

This year, we can see that the mobile phone of the OV brothers, which I originally looked down on, has begun to increase sales, stores have blossomed everywhere, and the total cost of rent has not increased much. Although there is no threat to sales at the moment, this momentum has to be noted. Online and offline, the Air Force and the Army, there is no distinction between advantages and inferiority, you should seek truth from facts, and use whichever is cheaper. ”

No matter how right the industry is, no matter how bright the prospects, there will be overzealous investors who will turn the serious business into a bubble. No matter how outdated the industry is, no matter how sad the prospect is, it can also form a value depression worth investing in because of the excessive panic of the herd.

It is precisely because of this high degree of interaction that the world has become observable.

road

Kedao,

Non-constant road also,

It's just the law and nature.

If it is constant, it is not natural, it only deserves to become a "cosmic flow" or "Internet thinking".

Wu Lao finally understood a little why Gu Mojie, a vulgar businessman, could understand the "natural flow".

"It's a pity that most of the chess players in the world have specialties, specialization, reluctance, and inertia in the layout, and they can't change their course at will. It's the same with business - what the Lei Jun you are talking about is doing, the old man doesn't know. But the old man believes that he must have invested too much in his own model to change it. ”

"There must be that, there can't be no way." The value of a network is proportional to the square times of the number of nodes in the network', this theory, for more than ten years, has been regarded as a guideline. As long as the skin of 'Internet thinking' is draped, the Internet world is a place that attaches great importance to the 'Matthew effect' and can never be freed. And those who focus on the Matthew effect model will certainly not survive the generational replacement of technology. ”

Gu Mojie said and felt a little ridiculous: What kind of business is he talking about with a hundred-year-old man.

So he kept silent and obediently watched the chess.

……

Gu Mojie's theory that "the value of a network is proportional to the square multiple of the number of nodes in the network" is the theory of Robert G. What Metcalfe discovered is known as Metcalfe's Law.

Generally speaking, this law is true in many places, but if it is excessive, it is also abused too much by humans today.

For example, when using this law normally, the idea would look like this:

In a social network, when there are 10 friends, each of these 10 people may have consumption motives and behaviors because of the social comparison or social popularity of the other 9 people. So, this network has 90 consumption motives.

When there are 20 people in this circle of friends, each person may theoretically be affected by the popularity of any of the other 19 people and spend money, so a total of 380 consumption motivations - the number of people in the circle of friends becomes 2 times, and the number of consumption motivations becomes 4 times.

In this way, Metcalfe's law is very correct.

BASED ON THIS LINE OF THINKING, PEOPLE ON WALL STREET BELIEVE THAT IF FACEBOOK, WHICH HAS 1 BILLION USERS, IS WORTH 200 BILLION YUAN, AND "FIRST SIGHT", WHICH HAS ANOTHER 1 BILLION USERS, IS ALSO WORTH 200 BILLION, THEN WHEN "FIRST SIGHT" SWALLOWS FACEBOOK AND HAS ALL 2 BILLION USERS, "FIRST SIGHT" SHOULD BE WORTH 800 BILLION.

Because of the abuse of Metcalfe's Law in the Internet circle, which is the strongest proponent of the "Matthew effect".

The so-called Matthew effect is known to anyone with a little common sense. From the Scriptures. The exact words from the Gospel of Matthew: "Whoever is poor will be taken away from him; Whoever is rich, give him more, and let him do more good."

Later, the Matthew Effect was widely used in all snowball fields where the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

The Internet world pays the most attention to "the winner kills and the weak die", which is naturally the hardest hit area of the Matthew effect.

But Gu Mojie doesn't see it that way.

Whether it is Metcalfe's law or the Matthew effect, we do not see the resistance formed by human beings being overshared, the formation of the most individualistic and the rebellion of the minority.

Each individual node, in the case of being lured by 100 million popular sources, and in the case of being lured by 200 million popular sources, the actual final consumption impulse may be the same.

In addition, the artificial intelligence preference analysis provided by Hatsune Smart is structuring the traditional fashion trend manufacturing society.

The fact that people are going to use SnapChat because of the bombardment of oversharing, and the fact that SnapChat can still emerge at a time when Facebook is already so big, proves that there is a need to break through the sharing cage of Metcalfe.

Gu Mojie's investment in Hatsune Intelligence, from a long-term point of view, is not his own life - he may endure the pain of falling the value of Hatsune Network Technology after the underlying media laws of this world are overturned.

But he knew that he had to reform, otherwise someone who came after him would be reformed.

Gu Mojie thought of this, and he and Wu Lao's deduction was almost over.

"Westerners have studied the Bible for 2,000 years and have come up with a Matthew effect. In fact, in my opinion, the so-called Matthew effect is good, and Metcalfe's law is good; Translated into Chinese, "Lao Tzu" is broken in half a sentence. ”

"What a half?" Wu Lao's demeanor was restrained, and his eyelids were not raised.

"The way of man is to lose more than enough."

“…… Yes. ”

A long silence followed.

"Whoever is poor will be taken away from him; Whoever is rich, let him be given more, let him have more and do good" - is this sentence not equivalent to "what is not enough, but what is given is more"!

"Sure enough." When Wu Lao spit out these two words, he only felt a wave of aura rushing up to the heavenly spirit cover.

In the past 30 years, the soul between him and Masaki Takemiya has suddenly penetrated.

Gu Mojie also breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that the other party agreed with his statement.

In fact, it cannot be said that Westerners are completely unaware of the abuses and counter-examples of Metcalfe and the Matthew effect. In "The Innovator's Dilemma", Christensen wrote about how many silent and disgraced business giants, but Christensen himself did not summarize the reasons for the prosperity and decline of those companies that Matthew went to the extreme and tied his hands and feet. ”

Christensen is a management guru in the United States. Steve Jobs has said many times that the person who has had the greatest influence on his life's business success is Christensen.

"Needless to say. Who that Christensen you're talking about, I don't know. But thinking about his life's induction, it is nothing more than an interpretation of 'the way of heaven, what is more than is lost and what is not enough'. ”

"Pretty much." Gu Mojie felt that there was still a bit of a gap, but he didn't want to refute an old man who was immersed in his soul.

"Chaowen said, Xi can die. I didn't expect the old man to be able to hear this in his twilight years. If you have such a heart, you can't do anything in the world. ”

The way of heaven and the way of man, any one taken out alone, is not qualified to be called the way.

They are, at best, constant.

Only when you do the way of heaven is the way of heaven, when you walk the way of humanity is humane, do not be harsh, do not seek one end, go with the flow, and be free to be qualified to shout.

Gu Mojie is already a master of understanding this. In his place, there is no principle that cannot be abandoned, if humanity is strong, it will be obedient to people, and if heaven is strong, it will be obedient to heaven. Metcalfe's law is strong, so use it; The human being's discriminating mind has rebounded and awakened, and he can use it as well.

When it comes to business, there is nothing to talk about. company, and not his wife.

Whether it is Ma Feng or Zuckerberg, the heroes at that time all had feelings and obsessions for "means".

Only Gu Mojie has no obsession and is unscrupulous. Those people were not his opponents in the past, and they are naturally unlikely to be his opponents in the future.

Gu Mojie put a chess piece, but Wu Lao didn't make a move. Gu Mojie thought he was asleep and didn't mind; After a long time, I found that the other party was completely silent.

Master Wu Qingyuan was feathered in front of the chessboard.

"Alas, the knot...... Congratulations. ”

Gu Mojie felt an invincible loneliness, surging in, making him go with the flow.

(End of book) (To be continued.) )