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In this reflective piece, the author shares how deliberate thinking, balancing technology with business, maintaining stable performance, fostering transparent team incentives, and practicing proactive risk communication and technical judgment transformed a year of rapid growth at Alibaba into actionable lessons for product managers.
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This article explores how humans, like computers, have hardware, an operating system, and software layers, and argues that improving our thinking requires strengthening the underlying “base OS” through three strategies—shrinking boundaries, building virtual boundaries, and reconstructing larger boundaries—to achieve lasting personal growth.
This article explores why thinking ability is the key to engineers' rapid growth, identifies common misconceptions, shares practical methods for cultivating principle‑based, structured, and reflective thinking, and offers actionable steps and tools to build a personal knowledge tree for continuous improvement.
