OpenAI CEO 山姆·奥特曼 (Sam Altman) 今天在他推特和个人网站上发布了他的「2023 年终总结」
以下是他这 17 条年终总结的中英双语版。中文部分由 AWS 学术写作组翻译。
年终总结标题:我希望有人早点告诉我的事
1、乐观、痴迷、自信、原始动力和人际关系是事情开始的基础。
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
2、团结的团队,平静与紧迫感的正确结合,以及超乎常理投入是事情完成的关键。长期导向人是少数;尝试不用担心人们短期内的看法,随着时间的推移,这(忽略他人的短期看法)会变得更容易。
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.
注释:本条总结的最后一个分句表达的意思是,建议你不要过于担心他人在短期内对你或你所做之事的看法。随着时间的推移,你会发现忽视他人短期评价变得更加容易。Sam 这么说,可能是因为,随着时间的流逝,人们往往能更客观地看待成果,而且在一个较长的时间框架内,短期评价的重要性会降低。
3、对于一个团队来说,做一件「重要但难的事情」比做一件「不重要但容易的事情」来得更容易;雄心勃勃的想法能激励人心。
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.
4、激励措施是超能力;要仔细设定这些措施。
Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.
5、将资源集中(押宝)在少数几个你信心十足的项目上;这话说起来容易,但做起来难。你(在待办事项中)可以删去的东西比你想象的要多。
Concentrate your resourceson 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.
6、清晰简洁地沟通。
Communicate clearly and concisely.
7、每次看到废话和官僚主义就要与它们斗争,并让其他人也加入(这个斗争)。不要让组织架构妨碍人们高效地合作。
Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and getother people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.
8、结果才是重要的;不要让良好的过程成为糟糕结果的借口。
Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.
9、花更多时间招募。大胆启用(并委重任以)增长潜力大且进步迅速的人冒险。评价人时,除了智力,还要寻找这个人「成事能力」的证据。
Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential peoplewith a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence.
10、超级明星级同事的价值比看起来的更大,但你必须根据「对组织绩效的净影响」来评估人员。
Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization.
注释:本条总结包含两个观点。第一个观点强调超级明星(在这里指的是业绩突出的员工或团队成员)的价值可能比我们表面上看到的还要大。这可能是因为他们(比如董宇辉)不仅完成了自己的工作,还能激励同事,推动创新,或者以其他方式为公司带来额外的价值。第二个观点提供了一个补充条件,即在评估这些超级明星的价值时,我们需要考虑的是他们对组织整体业绩的净影响。这意味着,尽管个别员工可能表现出色,但其最终价值取决于他们对整个组织的综合贡献,这包括了正面影响减去可能存在的任何负面影响(比如可能造成的团队不和、过高的成本或其它潜在的问题)。
11、快速迭代可以弥补很多不足;如果你能迅速迭代,犯错通常是可以接受的。计划应该以十年为单位,执行应该以周为单位。
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.
12、不要与商业世界里「等同于物理法则的东西」作斗争。
Don’t fight the businessequivalent of the laws of physics.
13、灵感是易逝的,生命流逝迅速。不行动是一种特别难以察觉的风险。
Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.
14、规模往往有出人意料的涌现特性。
Scale often has surprising emergent properties.
15、复合增长是魔法,特别是当你真的想要建立一个随规模获得复合优势的业务。
Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.
16、重新站起来,继续前进。
Get back up and keep going.
17、与优秀的人一起工作是生活中最美好的部分之一。
Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.
原文:https://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me