GitHub 前 CEO 纳特·弗里德曼的人生原则

与我一起探索世界运转的规律和个人幸福的方法

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最近看到GitHub的前 CEO 纳特-弗里德曼（Nat Friedman）的人生原则，非常喜欢，来分享一下。

• As human beings it is our right (maybe our moral duty) to reshape the universe to our preferences

  作为人类，我们有权利（也许是道义上的责任）按照自己的喜好重塑宇宙

• Technology, which is really knowledge, enables this

  技术，本质上的知识，使得这一切成为可能

• You should probably work on raising the ceiling, not the floor

  你应该努力提高天花板，而不是地板

• Enthusiasm matters!
  热情很重要！

• It's much easier to work on things that are exciting to you

  做让你兴奋的事情会容易得多

• It might be easier to do big things than small things for this reason

  因此，做大事可能比做小事更容易

• Energy is a necessary input for progress

  精力是取得进步的必要条件

• It's important to do things fast

  做事要快

• You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently

  在单位时间内，你能学到更多东西，因为你更频繁地接触现实

• Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit

  快让你专注于重要的事情，没有时间说废话

• "Slow is fake"

  “慢是假的”

• A week is 2% of the year

  一周是一年的 2%

• Time is the denominator

  时间是分母
• The efficient market hypothesis is a lie
  有效市场假说是个谎言

• At best it is a very lossy heuristic

  充其量只是一个非常失真的启发式规则

• The best things in life occur where EMH is wrong

  生活中最美好的事物都发生在 EMH 是错误的地方

• In many cases it's more accurate to model the world as 500 people than 8 billion

  在许多情况下，将世界模拟为 500 人比 80 亿人更准确

• "Most people are other people"

  “大多数人都是别人”
• We know less than we think
  我们知道的比我们想象的要少

• The replication crisis is not an aberration

  复制危机并非特例

• Many of the things we believe are wrong

  我们相信的许多事情都是错误的

• We are often not even asking the right questions

  我们甚至常常没有提出正确的问题
• The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful
  禁止微观管理的文化是有害的

• Great individuals should be fully empowered to exercise their judgment

  伟大的个人应被充分授权行使其判断力

• The goal is not to avoid mistakes; the goal is to achieve uncorrelated levels of excellence in some dimension

  我们的目标不是避免犯错，而是在某些方面达到不相关的卓越水平

• The downsides are worth it

  缺点是值得的
• Smaller teams are better
  团队越小越好

• Faster decisions, fewer meetings, more fun

  决策更快，会议更少，更有趣

• No need to chop up work for political reasons

  无需因政治原因而分拆工作

• No room for mediocre people (can pay more, too!)

  不容平庸之辈（薪水也更高！）。

• Large-scale engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear

  大型工程项目比它们看起来的更能被智商所解决

• Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed

  许多科技公司超员 2-10 倍
• Where do you get your dopamine?
  多巴胺从何而来？

• The answer is predictive of your behavior

  答案可以预测你的行为

• Better to get your dopamine from improving your ideas than from having them validated

  从改进想法中获得多巴胺比从验证想法中获得多巴胺更好

• It's ok to get yours from "making things happen"

  从 "让事情发生 "中获得多巴胺也不错
• You can do more than you think
  你能做的比你想象的更多

• We are tied down by invisible orthodoxy

  我们被无形的正统观念所束缚

• The laws of physics are the only limit

  物理定律是唯一的限制

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