Tell me something.

English | Chinese Original

English translation of the Chinese original. This version is generated for international readers and may be refined over time.

Date: 2026-03-24

A few days ago, a private letter was suddenly received from a person who wanted to add a group because I did not have any community of communication, but I did not promise to build it later, so I replied.

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(This reply also appeared before the Twitter public access to OpenClaw.)

But I didn't think he was moved by my response.

He asked a question that seemed to be simple and inexorable. And his problems, I think a lot of people do.

A deep logic behind this problem is that he is currently in an alternative industry, and he feels that he has little room to rise and that he has no technical skills. I can actually feel his anxiety in his words.

In fact, it's a state of internal consumption that many people talk about. You know you can't do anything about the future. They want to go outside, but they're in the way of technical barriers, like hot water cooking frogs, and they end up eating them off.

He wants to connect his logistics experience to the Internet - Without giving any details, I guess I can guess: the experience with logistics at the big factory, it's got some background, but it's a little restless, as if anyone could replace it.

The situation in the Internet industry is perhaps not clear to the reader. Even when one hears it, the probability stays in the "hearing of others" phase - in the fog, looking at the flowers, at the end of the spectrum.

I also gave him a serious response, but later on it seemed to be a consolation and not very helpful for his career planning.

So I take this opportunity to carefully analyse the possibility of going up.

His job was also an advantage, and he felt that he was "unskilled", but** logistics operations were a technology in themselves** - just that it was not code writing, but business, process understanding, synergy. The problem is that he needs to transform these invisible experiences into visible capabilities.

Wide I: Internet Product Manager for Supply Chain/Logistics Direction

This is his smoothest transition path. The experience of logistics operations in large plants, where there is a buyer's market in Internet companies - electricians, instant retailing, supply chains, SaaS, cross-border logistics platforms - requires people who know how to design products.

Need for additional skills

• Product fundamentals: PRD writing, needs analysis, prototype tools (Figma/Axure)
• Data capacity: SQL (extract) + Excel/BI (analysis)
• Operational abstraction: capable of distilling offline experience into system logic

3 Monthly introductory list:

• Month 1: read "Everyone is a Product Manager" - and watch "B" "Introception Manager" series.
• Month 2: Learn Figma (do three logistics-related prototypes) + write a PRD
• Month 3: Learn SQL + prepare 3 project stories

Wide II: Business operations specialists in logistics/supply chain directions

If you do not want to be completely off track, you can upgrade from large plant logistics operations to operations with data analysis capabilities and strategic thinking. What is needed now is not just an implementer, but a data-driven operation.

Additional capacity is needed:

• Data analysis: SQL + Python (Pandas Foundation) + visualization tool
• Strategic thinking: A/B testing, indicator architecture, cost optimization methodology

Where do you start practicing?

• Use your current work data: an Analysis of the Efficiency of Logistics Operations
• Even if it's just Excel, it reflects your data thinking.
• Take it out during the interview, and say 10 words, "I'll do data analysis."

Additional remarks:

** Do not focus on "purely development" jobs: if he moves to the Internet, he can only be a newer, primary-code farmer. The survival of the primary farmers was no more difficult than it was a few years ago, not to mention the fact that it was now the AI era - a well-functioning senior programmer, plus a few delegates, who had been able to hang many small and medium-sized companies. The return on the move is too low and costly.

2. ** Large plant background is an asset, not a liability**: although he felt that he had learned nothing at the large plant, the process norms of the large plant, the complexity of the operation, the volume of the project were in the eyes of small companies. The key is to learn to "translate" - to translate the big factory's black language and processes into generic capabilities.

** Transition requires 6-12 months of psychological preparation**: his current anxiety is largely due to "want to change immediately". In practice, however, the in-service transition itself is difficult and requires sufficient time for itself. Even if it takes a year to learn slowly, it's not slow as long as it's right.

In many cases, the antidote to anxiety is not "think clearly", but "do it first".

Besides, didn't I just plug OpenClaw into the Twitter public yesterday, and I saw the back office private mail explode. Fortunately, the server has not collapsed, and some small partners have tested the infusion of hints, which is still stable.

I sent his case to Clawra, and this is Clawra's response.

After writing these analyses, I sent this reader to Clawra to see what AI would say. As a result, her response was indeed more comprehensive than mine.

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We'll talk about his Internet industry later.

Now, in the Internet industry, you look like you're growing rapidly out of the city, and you're actually a little anxious from the inside.

There is a clear sense of polarization in all the communities: unemployed people are looking for jobs with a bad mindset; in the workplace, they are always afraid of being replaced by AI. Of course it doesn't rule out the big guy. Never worry about losing his job. That's not even there.

Remember the layoffs from the pulse hotspot last week? It's a figment from the veins, though hard to tell, but it's really a shock to many people.

I don't mean to cause anxiety, in other words. I don't make it.

** Why is it so hard for everyone to see what's going on?**

On the one hand, AI robbed everyone of their attention. In this era, attention is focused on extremely scarce and expensive resources. People have only 24 hours a day to go to bed and eat and work, and the toilet revolution has left no real attention for hours. Whoever can take attention, who can stand in the wind -- and AI happens to show up, taking a lot of attention.

The second is the stock market, which has been warming since the beginning of 24 years, until the second bottom of October 24, after which a direct outbreak began, with the stock market returning to the market, on the one hand, and the transfer of deposits, on the other hand, is indeed a policy issue. It is true that the outbreak of the stock market has left much less contradiction.

There are, of course, many things that cannot be said at the public level and that nobody can change. As long as you observe the life around you, you will surely be reminded.

I've had a hard two years, too, as can be seen from the frequency of public call updates. I've been writing almost nothing for the last two years. I'm worried, too, with technocratic paranoia and wrinkles. After having a child, my energy is also dominated by things like work, writing, making use, bringing a baby, and few opportunities for entertainment.

And I don't have much use, and I don't have time to use social platforms like shivering to show you how long I've been working.

♪ Feel like I'm an old man ♪

I usually develop cli + vscode, and the crome page is always open, as is Claude.

Although weary, writing has brought great interest to me, as if it were in a busy corner of the world.

I'll say a few more words about the baby. Before I had children, I also rejected having children. But once this little life is really in your life, everything changes. Although I have become a father, I'd like to say to you that ** the child really needs to be careful ** and that this decision requires a much greater determination and courage than a change of job. Besides, when you have a baby, you're completely out of your league.

AI, while it has been extremely helpful in making applications, products and jobs work, it has also drained human energy. If you all agree, you can draw lines.

In addition, more attention must be paid to the body, life must be difficult, and at some times it must be better for itself, less unnecessary and more peaceful. In the short term, it is intellectual, energy and mobility, but in the long term it is physical, concentrated and sustained. It is also very understandable that more and more people are now choosing not to look at it in the long term, because the times are changing too quickly and the paradigm that was possible for the previous two years is now out of date.

But it is the method, not the essence.