书友分享
From 木心
“ And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”—— Iaugural Address by John F. Kennedy. 这群硅谷神人好像都有想为国家做点什么的共同处。Elon曾说"strive for the greatest collective enlightenment "，致力于太空研究也是想以更低的成本让人类步入太空。 当初Tesla成立者Eberhard 也是厌恶于因为美国和中东不断纷争以及全球变暖问题，转向研究石油燃料替代品。创业革新的初衷是想为世界国家带来什么做些什么，不知是巧合还是其心中美国梦，引人深思，反躬自省。
From 叶小静
From 哇
词汇分享记得一次听《逻辑思维》，罗胖就问，什么是好的产品？有人说，是消费者想要的产品。
但有时候消费者并不知道自己想要什么！所以一个好的产品应该是这样的：当你摆到消费者面前的时候，他惊喜的说：“这就是我想要的东西！”
其实苹果手机和特斯拉都是这样的产品，在他们出现之前消费者哪里想过手机和汽车能做成这样？
这也是创意和创新的一个思考点：给消费者一个他从没有想到过但一见钟情的产品。
From ZHAO DAIWEI
又比如参加这次读书活动，起初打算每天坚持写Summary的，但有时因为太忙有时因为太累了就允许自己中间留白几天。以前高中班主任（数学老师）常说，每天学习打9折，五天后累计不是9折，而是5.9折（5个0.9相乘）。虽然我至今也没弄清这个逻辑所在，但可以肯定的一点是，每天对自己妥协一点，日积月累之后，一定会被那些完美执行计划的人甩开一大截。
词汇分享
From 木心
生产
crank out cars by the thousands:produce in a routine or monotonous manner 机械粗制滥造吗（同义：grind out）
knock out a second car：to produce something, especially quickly and easily 快速制造
pump out millions of vehicles: to produce something in large amounts 大量的生产出
先前所学：mass-produce，manufacture，churn out
The problem is that they will never be aligned and might look a mess,” Musk said. “We have to make sure they are not too hodgy podgy.”
㊀ align :
释义：to arrange something in the correctposition, or to be in the correct position, in relation to something else, especially in a straight line 使...排成一排；匹配
同义词：jibe，match，fit
✏️align with 与...一致
例句：This policy is closely aligned with the goals of the organization.
仿写：We should align with our friends against the foe.
㊁ hodgy pogdy ：
~hodge podge ，hotch-potch英式
释义：a lot of things mixed up together in no order 杂乱无章，混乱
同义： jumble，mess
Musk hired O'Connell and quickly dispatched him to Washington, D.C., to start poking around on what types of tax credits and rebates Tesla might be able to drum up around its electric vehicles
㊀ poke quickly push your fingers or another object into somebody/something 戳
✏️ poke about/around
释义：(informal) to look for something, especially something that is hidden among other things that you have to move
寻找；闲逛.
例句：The police spent the day poking around in his office but found nothing
✏️ poke/stick your nose into something
释义：(informal) to try to become involved in something that does not concern you 干涉
例句：Heʼs always poking his nose into other peopleʼs business.
仿写：It's illegal to poke your nose into the government's secret archives.
㊁ drum something up
释义：to try hard to get support or business 招揽，获取
例句：He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign.
仿写：Elon was always to drumming up the know-how for Tesla.
he stumbled on an article about a start-up called Tesla Motors
stumble on
✏️ stumble across/on/upon something/somebody
释义：to discover something/somebody unexpectedly 无意中发现；偶然遇到，碰巧找到
同义：come across，meet with
例句：Police have stumbled across a huge drugs ring
✏️ stumble over
释义：hit your foot against something while you are walking or running and almost fall 绊倒；结结巴巴
例句：The child stumbled and fell.
仿写：Just stand again over where you were stumbled.
he had missed the window to be a soldier and instead focused his attention on trying to get into national security work.
表达机会除了opportunity，chance，possibility等还可以用 windows
错过...机会：miss the window of...
释义：a time when there is an opportunity to do something, although it may not last long
✏️ window of opportunity
例句：We now have a small window of opportunity in which to make our views known
仿写：You just missed window of opportunity to present your skill.
From 哇
2.run into
It was an investment that would run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
You use run into when indicating that the cost or amount of something is very great. (费用或数量)高达，达到
例：He said companies should face punitive civil penalties running into millions of pounds.
还有偶遇，陷入困境的意思
4.blow away
Tesla engineers decided to blow them away by producing two prototype vehicles before the visit.
The guys from Toyota and Daimler were blown away.
The outsider were blown away by their first glimpse of the Tesla factory
这个短语在今天的内容就出现了三次
to make someone feel very surprised, especially about something they like or admire:（想到了一句流行语：我和我的小伙伴都惊呆了）
It just blows me away, the way everyone’s so friendly round here.
From ZHAO DAIWEI
3. O’Connell went from office to office in Washington, D.C., looking for a job and had little luck until Lincoln Bloomfield, the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, heard him out.
hear sb out: to listen to all of what sb wants to tell you without interrupting them
Just hear me out, will you?
4. The more O’Connell dug into the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, the more frustrated and despondent he became.
despondent: extremely unhappy and without hope
Gill had been out of work for a year and very getting very despondent.
He was becoming increasingly despondent about the way things were going.
despondency (n.)
10. A couple of assistants taking notes outside of the car jotted this down.
jot sth down: to write a short piece of information quickly
Let me jot down your number and I'll call you tomorrow.
一道算数诠释坚持的意义，送给大家
