Sam Altman这篇文章发布在2023年12月22号,差不多是openai宫斗结束一个月之后,刚好看了好多点都觉得很有感触,就翻译了发出来。
为了避免我的翻译误导大家,我把原文也放在下面了。
enjoy~
原文标题:What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
1.Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
乐观、痴迷、自信、初心和人际关系是一切伟大的开始。
(批注:openai的创建就是开始于一些志同道合的聚会~)
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.
有凝聚力的团队、平静与紧迫的恰当结合以及不合理的承诺,才能完成有挑战的任务。长期主义是稀缺的;尽量不要担心人们在短期内的想法,刚开始可能不容易,但越往后会越容易。
(批注:不合理的承诺很重要,时间的不合理会让人更高效,目标的不合理会让人更容易分出ROI)
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,做一件真正重要的难事比做一件不重要的容易事更简单;大胆的想法能激励团队成员。
(批注:重要的难事吸引优秀的人才,优秀的人才喜欢有挑战的工作,开始正循环)
4.Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.
激励措施是大招;要小心设置激励。
(批注:想想Sam为了让openai的激励生效去到处卖股权,激励是债务)
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.
将资源集中在少数你坚信的牌局上;这话说起来容易但显然做起来难。你可以抛弃的东西远比你想象的要多。
(批注:确实是说起来容易做起来难,神枪手=天赋+浪费子弹的数量,“决策准度”和“打不中的风险太高“都会阻碍资源集中)
6.Communicate clearly and concisely.
清晰而简洁地沟通。
(批注:笑死,字节的“坦诚清晰”)
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.
看到废话和官僚主义就干它,并且让其他人也一起干它。不要让组织架构妨碍人们有效地一起工作。
(批注:对组织来说要警惕帕金森定律,预防大公司病;对个人来说要面向自己工作,不要面向领导工作,面向自己工作是“如何做到世界顶尖水准”,面向领导工作是“如何让领导高兴”。)
8.Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.
结果是最重要的;不要让好过程成为糟糕结果的借口。
(批注:商业和战争一样都是成王败寇,参考东打锦州的时候林彪说的“我不要伤亡报告,我只要塔山”)
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.
花更多时间招聘。对那些提升速度快的高潜力人才下注。除了看聪不聪明,还要看搞成过事的证据。
(批注:提升看人的准度得修炼一辈子)
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.
明星员工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员工。
(批注:净影响=正影响-负影响,不要只看正影响)
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.
快速迭代可以掩盖很多问题;如果你能快速迭代,通常犯错是可以接受的。伟大计划应该以十年为单位,具体执行应该以周为单位。
(批注:快!快!还TM是快!)
12.Don’t fight the business equivalent of the laws of physics.
不要与和物理定律一样重要的商业定律作斗争。
(批注:自然世界运行的规律,人类社会运行的规律。只懂自然规律,不懂人的规律是单纯;只懂人的规律,不懂自然规律是世故;都懂才是成熟)
13.Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.
灵感易逝,生活飞快向前。不作为是一种特别隐蔽的风险。
(批注:人人都知道机会成本,不知道有啥机会,就不会知道有啥成本)
14.Scale often has surprising emergent properties.
规模往往有出人意料的新特性。
(批注:Scale law在ai领域的大力出奇迹)
15.Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.
复利指数是魔法。特别是,如果你真的想建立一个随规模获得复利优势的企业的话。
(批注:规模效应是商业世界的万有引力,王慧文说的,不是我说的)
16.Get back up and keep going.
站起来,继续前进。
(批注:很难评哈哈哈哈)
17.Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.
与牛逼的人一起工作是生活中最美好的部分之一。
(批注:任何人都有机会和牛逼的人一起工作,你可以放弃的远比你想象的多,call back哈哈哈)