那些意想不到的人生灵感

1.Be as specific as possible. “agi takeoff fast”: define “agi” “takeoff” “fast”

说话要尽可能地表达具体。比如：“快速实现人工智能起飞”需要明确“人工智能”、“起飞”、“快速”等含义。

2.There’s no such thing as a coincidence.

所谓的巧合其实都是不被看见的准备。

3.For decisions: autoresolve (1) on specific date (2) to the more unpleasant one.

对于决定：在特定日期（1）自动解决或者（2）到更不愉快的那个。

4.Let people tell you no. don’t make the decision for them.

大家心里有数，不用替别人做决定。

5.If you’re ever confused about what to do, just do the right thing.

当你不确定该怎么做时，就做正确的事情。

6.Expectation of progress towards a goal is key to motivation. we are not motivated if don’t know next step. we are not motivated if we don’t know what the goal is.

对目标进展的预期是激励的关键。如果不知道下一步该做什么活着目标是什么，我们就不会有动力。

7.When sending/receiving important email, snooze it for the date when you want to follow up.

在发送/接收重要电子邮件时，把它设定到你想要跟进的日期。

8.Set 1 hour timers to surface thoughts in a google doc and 3m timers to write down next steps.

设置1小时的计时器，将想法记录在谷歌文档中，设置3分钟的计时器，写下下一步行动。

9.The more you know, the more easily you can see the next steps.

你了解得越多，就越容易看到下一步要做什么。

10.Key about naps: no need to sleep. brain never fully on, never fully off. If I took a 20 minute nap and didn’t fall asleep, i just took an excellent 10 minute nap!

关于小睡的关键：不需要睡觉。大脑从未完全开启，也从未完全关闭。如果我睡了20分钟而没有睡着，我只是睡了10分钟的极好的午觉！

11.If you don’t have consistent scheduled time for your top goals, you don’t have top goals.

如果没有为你的首要目标安排固定的时间表，那么你的目标就不是最重要的。

12.What are you being a coward about? Be specific.

你在怕什么？具体明确点。

13.What are you ashamed of? Be specific.

明确你感到羞耻的原因。

14.What makes you angry? Be specific.

明确让你感到生气的事情。

15.Everything has an MVP & final version. MVP can usually be done in 10% of the time with a timer for 5-10-15 minutes & ensures you don’t get stuck. what’s the mvp of your current top goal?

一切事情都有一个最简化可实行版本和最终版本。最简化可实行版本通常可以在10%的时间内完成，有一个5-10-15分钟的计时器，并确保你不会被卡住。 你目前的最高目标的最简化可实行版本是什么？

16.Don’t be ashamed to ask “what do you do?” as the first question at parties.

不要害怕在聚会上问“你是做什么的？”作为破冰的话题。

17.Seek out weirdest people at parties.

可以留意聚会上的”异类“们。

18.Working on the hardest problems requires incredible amount of courage. acknowledge & embrace fear.

解决最困难的问题需要难以置信的勇气。 承认并拥抱恐惧。

19.Strong intuition doesn’t mean intuition is right.

强烈的直觉不一定意味着直觉是正确的。

20.Even if high level intuition is right, without grounding actionable implications likely completely wrong.

即使直觉告诉你这是对的，但“什么都不做”也会让直觉变得没有那么对。

21.Seek ground truth and poke reality. Don’t settle for proxies or for winning arguments.

寻求真相，贵在恪守初心，不以口舌之胜论英雄。

22.Never defer key beliefs. Do everything possible to find ppl thinking from first principles rather than from what’s reasonable or what someone else believes.

不流于俗，尽一切可能从第一性原理思考，而非依赖于看似可靠或者他人的理念

23.ppl good at thinking think that thinking is everything; people good at doing think that doing is everything. doers dismiss thinkers & thinkers are scared of doers.

擅长思考的人认为思考至关重要；擅长行动的人则认为行动至关重要。行动者轻视思考者，思考者则惧怕行动者。

24.If there’s something on your mind, write it down & get it out. Maintain full attention on what you’re doing.

如果你脑中一直萦绕着某个念头，就写下来并全神贯注于当前的任务。

25.If you did a sequence of actions 3 times, make a checklist.

如果有一连串的事情是已经被执行了三次，可以给它做一个清单了。

26.If you have a thought and you don’t like it, you can tell your brain that you don’t like it and drop it.

如果你有一个想法，但不喜欢它，你可以告诉你的大脑，你不喜欢它，并抛弃它。

27.If you don’t find yourself naturally wanting to work in a location, go somewhere else. don’t even bring your computer to the one with bad vibes.

如果你对某个工作环境感到不适，那是时候换一个了。在有毒的工作环境里，连带电脑都是徒劳的。

28.Send cold emails. Assume that everyone is a friend.

别乱发套近乎的邮件，假装每个人都是你的朋友。

29.Always have a timer on top & use it to avoid getting stuck.

工作的时候使用计时器，专治走神拖延效率低下。

30.What were you thinking about in the shower?

你洗澡的时候都在想什么？

31.A reason why being in the bay area important - standards are high! otherwise easy to forget that there are people who need 10 minutes to blow you away with their energy & insight. lots of important ppl intuitions get fucked.

身处湾区最重要的一点是认知以及视野的标准极高，大家看似平平无奇，可只需要10分钟就能让你大开眼界。

32.Be sus if you haven’t spent a few years feeling like a loser when everyone else was getting ahead.

如果几年过去了，如果你都没有想过为什么别人成功而自己却不行，那你完了。

33.Read, don’t listen to books.

别用听书替代读书。

34.If you never feel a particular emotion, it’s probably the brain suppressing awareness of it or suppressing the emotion directly.

如果你从来没有感受到某种情绪，那很可能是大脑压抑了对它的认知或者这种情绪本身。

35.People think that others have same motivations as them.

人们常常以为群众的动机都是相同的。

36.People protect themselves by projecting their fears on others.

投射恐惧到他人身上是自我保护的一种手段。

37.You can decide to pay or not to pay attention to things.

你可以自己决定什么事情是值得关注什么是不值得关注的。

38.What’s the default decision?

困住你的囚徒思维是什么？

39.Be sus whenever you want to read & research instead of figuring something out yourself. it’s usually avoidance caused by fear.

如果想要阅读和研究而不是自己解决问题时，通常是出于害怕，应当警惕。

40.Grab a piece of paper and write a feelings diagram asking “why” endlessly.

在一张纸上写下自己的感受，不停的问自己“为什么”。

41.If you told someone in the year 1400 that the earth rotates around the sun, they’d either ridicule or burn you.

如果你在1400年告诉某个人地球绕着太阳转，他们要么嘲笑你，要么把你烧死。

42.Run, don’t walk. literally. “Slow is fake”.

能用跑的就不要用走的。走着走着你就追不上了。

43.Poke at whatever your 15-year old self felt & believed in.

你15岁在想些什么？回溯过去，找到自己内心所爱的事。

44.You’ll learn 10x more by talking to the paper’s author for 30 minutes versus reading it for 30 minutes.

跟文章作者聊30分钟比阅读文章30分钟可以学到10倍的知识。

45.You can’t improve what you can’t measure. if you want to improve on ground-truth, measure ground-truth.

如果你不能衡量某件事，那就很难改善它。要想进步，就设定好要进步多少的量。

46.Never give up.

永不放弃。

47.We become the people whose opinion we care about.

我们在乎谁的意见，就会变成谁。

48.Get to the point.

言简意赅。

49.Who do you want to be more like? write a list.

你想成为像谁一样的人？写一个清单。

50.Set 5 minute timers and write next steps.

定时5分钟，把下一步行动写下来。