A friend who had repeatedly failed in starting a business asked me after getting drunk: "Where can I get the scriptures these days?"
I didn't answer, but asked: "Do you still remember "Journey to the West"?"
He was stunned, and then suddenly realized—aren't each of us walking on our own path of learning?
It's just that today's demons have turned into "traffic anxiety" and "data bubbles"; the truth they seek has turned into business plans and growth curves. So I got this book: "A New Path to Learning: Bajie's Flow Scripture".
You will see Bajie, who was laid off, become a top food-broadcaster and then fall from the altar, and finally understand the true meaning of "Jingtan"; Wukong, a technical geek, uses his sharp eyes to see through the illusion of algorithms; Sha Seng uses the slowest live broadcast in the field to find the fastest way; Tang Seng learns to use OKR to manage the team, but knows that the original intention cannot be quantified.
This is not a simple mythology. It is a literary slice of the Internet wave of the past ten years: fraud, vomiting, information cocoons, concept hype... I satirize shortcut thinking and abnormal rules, but the background is warm - because each of us may be the Bajie who is flopping in the torrent, eating ugly but really struggling.
I believe that in an era where algorithms define everything, some things still cannot be quantified: the weight of integrity, patience for long-term value. There are eighty-one difficulties on the way to seek scriptures, and every difficulty asks: Who are you? Who to be?
My friend later went to the agricultural product base for quality control and sent photos and said: "This ear of corn won't sell off, but it's really sweet."
