Hi, I hope this website can help with your writing a little bit.
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
— Stephen King
A. 兩篇擴展閱讀
（上課提到的兩篇文章，我復制了網頁版，大家可以在手機上看）
1- Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People
谷歌的人力資源部門的主管，從公司的角度分析如何更好的，更高效的，更科學的招聘人才。
這個片段是說面試官經常會出現的 Confirmation Bias：
They create a situation where an interview is spent trying to confirm what we think of someone, rather than truly assessing them. Psychologists call this confirmation bias, “the tendency to search for, interpret, or prioritize information in a way that confirms one’s beliefs or hypotheses.” Based on the slightest interaction, we make a snap, unconscious judgment heavily influenced by our existing biases and beliefs. Without realizing it, we then shift from assessing a candidate to hunting for evidence that confirms our initial impression.
2- Is Google Making Us Stupid
四六級作文經常出現批判科技的負面影響和局限（technology’s negative impacts and limitations），這篇文章可以給我們提供很多有趣的，生動的素材。
比如開頭作者描述自己的切身感受，描述自己思考習慣的變化。
My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
B. 普利策獎
普利策獎官網(Pulitzer Prize)
美國最權威的新聞獎項，號稱新聞界的諾貝爾獎。
這是今年的獲獎名單。大家還可以找往年獲獎的作品，找一些自己感興趣的去讀。上課我們還會再說一點和普利策獎相關的話題。對新聞感興趣的同學可以說說你們自己的感受或想法。
這是美聯社（Associated Press）今年的獲獎系列報道（Public Service）。講述的是印尼的被當作奴隸般使用的漁民：AP Investigation: Are slaves catching the fish you buy?
普利策網站上可以看到整個系列的八篇文章和相關的新聞視頻。
BENJINA, Indonesia — The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Just a few yards away, other workers loaded cargo ships with slave-caught seafood that clouds the supply networks of major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores in the United States.
C. 人文，科技
下面是上課提到的一些，我個人覺得對大家很有幫助的，網站和博客
- 《黑客與畫家》的作者，格雷漢姆的文章，關于科技，創業的博客: Paul Graham’s Essays。 如果想在手機上瀏覽，可以先看一下這篇文章的復制版 How to make Pittsburg a Startup Hub
- 經濟學家，金融時報專欄作家Tim Harford的專欄 Tim Harford
這是金融時報中文版翻譯他的一篇文章 “客觀”只是一種錯覺
這是英語原文 Delusions of objectivity
如果打不開可以看我復制的這個備份 Delusions of objectivity - 分析商業，科技的作者 Ben Thompson 的文章
- 衛報文化版，科技版
- 大西洋月刊文化版
大家閱讀過以上介紹的那篇文章，有什么想法和評論的話，歡迎發在評論區里面，或者發到QQ群里面。
大家發現有哪個鏈接有問題的話，麻煩和我說下。謝謝。
