关键要点
- 复利:每天写一页,一年就是一本书;持续的小步推进产生指数效应。
- 拿不准时,为有趣优化——有趣是好奇心的代理指标。
- 保持上风位(staying upwind):和最优秀的人共事,你会被推着往前走。
- 真诚的核心是智识诚实:不骗自己,才能不骗世界。
- 别把雄心勃勃的工作时间当成本,否则它看起来永远太贵。
—— 本文选自东西书院 dongxishuyuan.com
PG 原话
每天写一页听起来不多,但如果你每天都写,一年就是一本书。
Writing a page a day doesnt sound like much, but if you do it every day youll write a book a year.
拿不准时,为有趣优化。
When in doubt, optimize for interestingness.
真诚的核心是智识诚实。
The core of being earnest is being intellectually honest.
出处
- 英文原题:How to Do Great Work(2023年7月)
- 原文:https://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.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
你脑中的头号想法:小心让错误的事占据它
人同一时间只有一个“头号想法”,它会独占你的“环境思考”;别让筹钱和争吵成为它。
I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time.
The problem is not the actual time it takes to meet with investors. The problem is that once you start raising money, raising money becomes the top idea in your mind.
场景交集:时间管理、专注出处:The Top Idea in Your Mind · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
好文章有两个标准:写得好听、想法正确——而好听的文字更可能是对的。
There are two senses in which writing can be good: it can sound good, and the ideas can be right.
I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right.
场景交集:专注、写作出处:Good Writing · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
写作与演讲:好想法是写作的大头,却是演讲的小头
写作靠想法,演讲靠表演;想产出好想法就去写作,别去练演讲。
Having good ideas is most of writing well. If you know what youre talking about, you can say it in the plainest words and youll be perceived as having a good style.
With speaking its the opposite: having good ideas is an alarmingly small component of being a good speaker.
场景交集:专注、写作出处:Writing and Speaking · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
荒岛测试:打包行李,看清你的瘾
设想去没有商店的小岛过周末,除了衣物洗漱你还会打包什么——那就是你上瘾的东西。
What, besides clothes and toiletries, do you make a point of packing? Thats what youre addicted to.
Pen and paper wick ideas.
场景交集:时间管理、专注出处:The Island Test · 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)。