What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

• https://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me - Sam Altman

• Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are...

• 2023-12-26 09:01:58

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me我希望有人告诉我的话

1. Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.乐观、痴迷、自信、原始动力和人际关系是一切的开始。

2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time.具有凝聚力的团队、冷静与紧迫感的正确结合以及不合理的承诺是事情得以完成的方式。长期导向供不应求；尽量不要担心人们短期内的想法，随着时间的推移，这会变得更容易。

3. It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.对于团队来说，做一件真正重要的困难事情比做一件不重要的简单事情更容易；大胆的想法能够激励人们。

4. Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.激励是超能力；仔细设置它们。

5. Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think.将您的资源集中在少量高可信度的赌注上；这说起来容易，但做起来显然很难。您可以删除的内容比您想象的还要多。

6. Communicate clearly and concisely.沟通清晰简洁。

7. Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.每次看到废话和官僚主义时都要与它作斗争，并让其他人也与之作斗争。不要让组织结构图妨碍人们高效地合作。

8. Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.结果才是最重要的；不要让好的过程成为不好的结果的借口。

9. Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence.花更多的时间去招聘。为那些进步速度快的高潜力人才承担风险。除了智力之外，还要寻找完成任务的证据。

10. Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization.超级明星比他们看起来更有价值，但你必须根据他们对组织绩效的净影响来评估他们。

11. Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.快速迭代可以弥补很多；如果迭代速度很快，犯错通常是可以接受的。计划应该以几十年来衡量，执行应该以几周来衡量。

12. Don’t fight the business equivalent of the laws of physics.不要违背相当于物理定律的商业法则。

13. Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.灵感易逝，生活过得很快。不作为是一种特别隐蔽的风险。

14. Scale often has surprising emergent properties.规模常常具有令人惊讶的突现特性。

15. Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.复利指数是神奇的。特别是，您确实希望建立一家能够通过规模获得复合优势的企业。

16. Get back up and keep going.重新站起来并继续前进。

17. Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.与优秀的人一起工作是生活中最美好的部分之一。