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。

51.Set a 5 minute timer and start doing the next step.

设置5分钟定时器并开始执行下一步。

52.How do you feel – not think! – about your current top goal?

对你现在的目标有什么感受？ 不要意见或者看法。

53.Every document must have a specific goal written at the top of it.

每个文档必须在顶部写明具体目标。

54.Get to inbox 0 every day, unless you have a specific reason not to.

每天的任务都做到事事有反馈，件件有回音。

55.Set 1 minute timers to surface thoughts.

定时一分钟，把想法具像化。

56.Close eyes when thinking.

思考时闭上眼睛。

57.Take Sundays off.

每周日给自己好好放假。

58.Credible commitment not to engage in a certain stimulus is tantamount to removing it entirely.

许下承诺不去做某件事情和完全不去接触某个事情能达到一样的效果。

59.intelligence != genius

智商≠天才。

60.Fewer better arguments.

言简意赅。

61.What’s the silver bullet?

有什么看似神奇的解决办法吗？

62.Cherish friends who tell you things that make you angry.

珍惜那些报喜还敢报忧的朋友。

63.Sitting around on the floor with eyes closed thinking & having friends call you a coward both remain extremely underrated.

坐地上闭上眼睛想事情，和被朋友喊胆小鬼，是两个被低估的现象。

64.Easy to replace systems get replaced by difficult to replace systems.

容易被替代的事物最终会被难以替代的事物替代。

65.Do something courageous.

做些勇敢的事情。

66.Homo erectus were not smart enough to do science. homo sapiens are.

认知差异决定了直立人不能做科学研究，智人可以。

67.Be sus if you’re not asking dumb questions.

不问蠢问题的人都得好好反省一下自己。

68.Feeling stupid now is better than feeling stupid in 10 years.

现在觉得自己蠢也好过十年后才觉得自己蠢。

69.If someone is successful but there are no specific problems they solved, it’s probably because they’re good at persuading people rather than solving problems.

如果某人很成功，但没有解决具体的问题，那可能是因为他们善于说服人而不是解决问题。

70.What thoughts you can’t think?

有什么是你想不到的？

71.1 year reorienting, 4 years executing.

1年重新定向，4年执行。

72.Some people are not your friends.

有些人注定无法与你同行。

73.What’s your purpose?

你的目的是什么？

74.Saying things out loud shows inner conflict.

大声说出来表明内心冲突。

75.Put on your favorite song and dance.

放你最喜欢的歌然后跳舞吧！

76.“should” sus.

所有的“来不及”，前面都有一句“我觉得”。

77.Keep asking why.

不断问为什么。

78.Who are your mentors?

找到自己的导师。

79.Make sure you trust your own word.

首先你要相信自己能行。

80.Reasonable priors are an oxymoron bc the world is just fucking weird.

即使事先验证过的结论也是自相矛盾的，因为这个世界就是不按常理出牌。

81.Workspace can be drama free.

职场可以没有drama的。

82.If you want people you don’t like to like you, you won’t like yourself.

不要指望所有人都喜欢你。

83.At least 30% of the world’s smartest 22 year olds right now are in the bay area hustling to get an o1/j1/h1b.

目前世界上最聪明的22岁年轻人中，至少有30%正在海湾地区拼搏争取O1 / J1 / H1B签证。

84.Writing makes thought visible.

写作使思想变得可见。

85.Will you hire your future boss? think

有没有想过让你的老板为你打工？

86.Utility monsters are real.

工作狂真的存在，而且还很多。

87.Luck favors the prepared.

机会只会留给有准备的人。

88.Most decisions are fake. we are not aware of options, feel like the right thing is impossible, can’t overcome fear.

大多数决策都是虚假的。我们不知道有哪些选项，感觉正确的事情是不可能的，无法克服恐惧。

89.Wear a funny hat.

不要怕冒险和出丑，想你所想，做你想做。

90.Everything is power-law distributed.

一切都遵循幂律分布。

91.If you’re not failing you’re not operating at the edge.If you’re not operating at the edge, you’re not learning as much as you can.

犯错是学习的必经之路，没犯错就不会学习，只有不怕犯错才是改变的开始。

92.Ask for help. Especially when you’re scared of asking for help.

大胆寻求帮助，尤其是你害怕寻求帮助的时候。

93.You haven’t failed until you’ve given up.

直到你选择放弃，才算失败。

94.Meditate. 冥想一下。

95.Avoid people driven by fear.

避免与受恐惧驱使的人打交道。

96.If someone you respect gives you dumb advice, think about it instead of discarding it immediately.

如果你尊重的人给你愚蠢的建议，请考虑一下，而不是立即将其丢弃。

97.Let the world tell you no.

让世界告诉你不行。

98.Go to a rave get drunk & dance.

去参加狂欢节，喝得酩酊大醉，跳起了舞。

99.Have a concrete positive vision of the future.

怀抱着对未来快乐美好的愿景。

100.Seek people who see the future.

找到那个看得见未来的人。

101.Seek people who don’t get angry at you for saying what you think, being yourself, and doing what you believe is right.

找到那个让你大胆表达自己，大胆做自己的人。

102.If you think you’re introverted, find better friends.

如果你觉得自己是内向型性格，那就去找更好玩的朋友吧！

103.You decide whether to live in the past or in the future with your every action.

每个行动都决定你是活在过去还是未来。

104.What will you regret tomorrow?

明天你会后悔吗？

in 1 year?

一年后呢？

in 10 years?

十年后呢？

105.When a prisoner at auschwitz was trying to escape the gas chamber, other prisoners alerted the guards.

在奥斯维辛，当一个囚犯试图逃出毒气室时，其他囚犯会向警卫报告。

106.Never make decisions on the basis of tax rates.

强行凑满减，凑打折会让你越来越穷。

107.If you have more than a few months of runway, start spending more.

如果你有几个月的经济支持，开始多花点钱吧。

108.spend 10-20% of your time reorienting.

投入 10-20% 的时间去重新定位自己。

109.Ask the girl you like out.

去约你喜欢的女孩吧。

110.Brain is a wet sausage.

大脑就像湿的香肠一样。

111.Be kind. 做人要善良。

112.If you’re 20, you’re probably underestimating yourself.

如果你年龄在 20 岁左右，你可能低估了自己。

113.Update all the way.

提升自己要做到全方面。

114.Know what you want.

找到自己真正想要的。

115.If you feel bad, low energy, depressed, demotivated, there’s probably a reason & there’s probably a solution.

如果你感觉最近好像干什么都没劲，能力太低，是有原因和充电办法的。

116.The smarter someone is the more they can afford to have terrible epistemics and still be successful.

聪明的人不会被生活亮出的刀刃吓得落荒而逃，而是拿出耐心等待等待它拿出的蛋糕。

117.You are permitted to do what you believe is right.

做自己觉得对的事就准没错。

118.Risks are less risky than you think. take as many as you can.

风险比你想象的要小，尽可能多地冒险吧.

119.Be loyal to your friends.

要忠于你的朋友。

120.The richest people lose the most money, the most connected people get rejected the most, the most successful people fail the most.

富有的人曾经失去最多的钱，人缘好的人曾经被无数次拒绝，成功的人也曾失败过无数次，有失才有得。

121.Go do something that can fail.

其实没什么好后悔的，失败了也没关系，做！

122.Reflect on your day at the end of it and write down what you learned.

在一天结束的时候复盘自己的一天，并总结自己学到了什么。

123.Don’t die.

先好好活着。

原文来自: Guzey, A. (2023, March 8). Lifehacks. https://guzey.com/lifehacks/