Sam Altman：那些我希望有人能早点告诉我的事

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这是OpenAI创始人兼CEO Sam Altman发表在自己博客的一篇名为《What I Wish Someone Had Told Me》的文章，里面记录了Sam Altman认为越早知道越好的17条语录，今天我把它翻译为中文与小伙伴们在五一期间共勉。

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

那些我希望有人能早点告诉我的事

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.

乐观、执着、自信、自驱力和人际关系是事情开始的关键。
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、张弛有度，以及超额投入是事情完成的关键。长期导向往往容易被忽视；尽量不要担心人们短期内的看法，随着时间的推移，会好起来。
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.

对团队来说，做一件真正重要的难事比做一件并不重要的易事要容易；大胆的想法能激发团队的斗志。
Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.

激励机制是超能力；要谨慎地设定它们。
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.

集中资源在少数几个你有把握的项目上；这说起来容易但做起来难。你能排除掉的东西比你想象的要多。
Communicate clearly and concisely.

清晰、简洁地沟通。
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.

抵制废话和官僚主义，并让其他人也这样做。不要让组织架构成为高效协作的障碍。
Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.

结果至上；不要让过程成为失败的借口。
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.

重视招聘。敢于选择那些进步飞速的高潜力人才。除智力外，还要考量一个人的成事能力。
Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization.

明星级别的同事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他们。
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.

快速迭代可以弥补很多不足之处；快速迭代意味着试错空间很大。计划应该以十年为单位，执行应该以周为单位来衡量。
Don’t fight the business equivalent of the laws of physics.

不要与商业世界的基本法则作斗争。
Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.

灵感易逝，人生匆匆。不作为是一种特别隐蔽的风险。
Scale often has surprising emergent properties.

规模化往往伴随着惊人的涌现特征。
Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.

复利效应是魔法。特别当你真的想要建立一个随着规模扩大而获得复利优势的业务时。
Get back up and keep going.

在哪里跌倒，就在哪里爬起来，继续前进。
Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.

与优秀的人同行是生活中最美好的体验之一。