Dec 8 2021（纳瓦尔2021年12月8日）

Groups Never Admit Failure  团队（组织）不会承认失败

相反，你会得到分裂

纳瓦尔： 团体从不承认失败。一个群体宁愿继续生活在“我们被压制”的神话中，也不愿承认失败。个人是唯一承认失败的人。即使是个人也不喜欢承认失败，但最终，他们可能会被迫承认失败。

Naval: Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to.

一个团队永远不会承认他们错了。一个团体永远不会承认“我们犯了一个错误”，因为一个试图改变想法的团体会分崩离析。我很难在历史上找到大型团体说“我们以为 是A，但答案实际上是 B”的例子。

A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”

通常在上面情况下发生的是分裂，如你从天主教会到新教等。这会存在分歧，通常还有很多内讧。这也有发生在加密货币的领域。比特币不会突然说，“我们应该有智能合约”。ETH 不会突然说，“我们应该是一成不变的”。

Usually what happens in that case is a schism, where you go from the Catholic Church to Protestant and so on. There’s a divergence and usually a lot of infighting. This happens in crypto land, too, where the coins fork. Bitcoin doesn’t suddenly say, “We should have smart contracts.” ETH doesn’t suddenly say, “We should have been immutable.”

我是一个基金会的董事会成员，该基金会负责为某项事情付费，我发现这非常魔幻，因为我了解到，无论基金会做什么，他们都会宣布胜利，每个项目都取得了胜利，每个项目都取得了成功。有很多肯定、有很多冠冕堂皇的使命宣言和愿景宣言，很多祝贺，很多丰盛的晚餐——但实际什么也没取得（完成）。

I was on the board of a foundation that was charged with giving out money for a cause, and I found it very disillusioning because what I learned was that no matter what the foundation did, they would declare victory. Every project was victorious. Every project was a success. There was a lot of back slapping. There were a lot of high-sounding mission statements and vision statements, a lot of congratulations, a lot of nice dinners—but nothing ever got done.

我意识到这是因为没有客观反馈。因为没有损失——这都是社会利润——他们不会失败。而且因为他们不能失败，所以他们整天误用了资源。当然，最终，这些团体会烧完这些钱。

I realized this was because there was no objective feedback. Because there is no loss—it’s all social profit—they couldn’t fail. And because they couldn’t fail, they misdirected resources all day long. And eventually, of course, such groups run out of money.

如果你想把世界变得更美好，最好的方法就是营利，因为营利必须从现实中取得反馈。讽刺的是，营利性实体比非营利性实体更具可持续性。它们是需要自己输血去维持企业生存的，它不会一直拿着空碗在外面乞讨。

If you want to change the world to a better place, the best way to do it is a for-profit because for-profits have to take feedback from reality. Ironically, for-profit entities are more sustainable than non-profit entities. They’re self-sustainable. You’re not out there with a begging bowl all the time.

当然，当你失去了美好的非营利地位，你就要纳税，你也可能因为纯粹以营利为目的而腐败。但仍我认为，最好的企业是那些营利性、可持续和有道德的企业，这样它才能吸引最优秀的人。你可以维持这样的企业，因为这是一项使命，而不仅仅是关于金钱——因为赚钱的回报会递减。

Of course, you lose the beautiful non-profit status; you have to pay your taxes; and also you can get corrupted by being purely for-profit. But I would argue that the best businesses are the ones that are for-profit, sustainable and ethical so you can attract the best people. You can sustain it because it’s a mission and it’s not just about the money—because there are diminishing returns to making money.

你生活中，钱的边际效用正在递减。

There’s a diminishing marginal utility to the money in your life.

马丽：以某个目的为共同目标组成的团体（组织、实体、企业），要以客观反馈--例如盈利为指标，反向映照出这个团体是否成事（成功）或失败。钱不是万能的，但没有钱万万不能。团体或企业应有其道德底线，有企业使命和愿景，在此基础上以盈利为目标，不以盈利为目标的企业都是耍流氓，吸引优秀人才，持续利用和创造资源、成为一家百年企业，创造更精彩的世界。

人类最终，除了金钱、自己、家庭、朋友、时间自由、空间自由，人生最重要的力量，来自其自身有社会责任感。不仅是你自己一个人多姿多彩，更要让认识你的人因为你的存在变得多姿多彩。人的终极需求是自我实现，如果能够同时找到人生的使命，奉献更多，世界将变得越发美好。

That now I'm in a whole new world with you

Unbelievable sights

不可置信的景观

Indescribable feeling

无法形容的感觉

Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling

尽情翻转、自由地翱翔

Through an endless diamond sky

穿越那无垠无涯如同钻石般的天空

A whole new world

一个崭新的世界