关键要点
- 大组织在弱化：独立、小团队能做的事越来越多，别把自己焊死在官僚机器里。
- 导航原则：拿不准就追随好奇心——它从不撒谎，比你更懂什么值得注意。
- 要被好奇心而非职业主义驱动；职业主义让你优化头衔，好奇心让你优化发现。
- 找赢家通吃的领域下注：少数大赢家碾压其他人的领域，超线性回报最丰厚。
- 平庸但流行的东西是机会：它意味着有人愿意为更好的替代品买单。
—— 本文选自东西书院 dongxishuyuan.com
PG 原话
拿不准时，追随你的好奇心。它从不撒谎，而且比你更懂什么值得注意。
When in doubt, follow your curiosity. It never lies, and it knows more than you do about whats worth paying attention to.
如果你遇到某种平庸却流行的东西，替换掉它可能是个好主意。
if you come across something thats mediocre yet still popular, it could be a good idea to replace it.
去找那些少数大赢家碾压其他所有人的领域。
look for fields where a few big winners outperform everyone else.
出处
- 英文原题：Superlinear Returns（2023年10月）
- 原文：https://www.paulgraham.com/superlinear.html
- 本书院编译 · 底本为 paulgraham.com 英文原典
中文为本书院编译（意译），关键英文术语保留原文；英文引文逐字核验为原典连续子串。
延伸阅读 · 跨篇互见
想赚大钱就去创业，而发现创业想法的最好方式，就是做自己真正感兴趣的事。
Many if not most of the biggest startups began as projects the founders were doing for fun.
So theres something like a midwit peak for making money.
场景交集：选择方向、寻找创意、决策出处：When To Do What You Love · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
别人眼中的工作在你眼中不算工作，那就是你适合做的事；口味越怪，证据越强。
If something that seems like work to other people doesnt seem like work to you, thats something youre well suited for.
The stranger your tastes seem to other people, the stronger evidence they probably are of what you should do.
场景交集：选择方向、寻找创意、决策出处：What Doesnt Seem Like Work? · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
再聪明的人选课题也意外保守；真正的机会往往藏在无人问津的冷门问题里。
Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.
Ive seen the same pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because theyve all worked on similar things.
场景交集：选择方向、寻找创意、决策出处：Fashionable Problems · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
英雄下：去找那些没人意识到是问题的问题
做大事的路径：寻找那些人们还没意识到是问题的问题；人生只有一次，为什么不做件大事——范式转移始于无人提问处。
But Wodehouse didnt give a damn what anyone thought of him. He wrote exactly what he wanted.
To do really great things, you have to seek out questions people didnt even realize were questions.
场景交集：选择方向、寻找创意、决策出处：Some Heroes · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
本区为 L2 延展案例（跨篇互见）：PG 其他原典中的相关论述，仍属原典直读；引文均为逐字核验。解读与主编观点见 L3（筹备中）。