It's hard to think original thoughts if your senses are being perpetually flooded with everything from everyone all the time. And it's hard to protect your senses against this if you're constantly in close mental proximity to those who've had success running the established script. To escape back to first principles, you need to consciously turn down the volume on the world.
如果你的感官一直被来自每个人的一切事物所淹没,那么很难产生原创的思想。如果你不断与那些在已有脚本上取得成功的人保持密切的心理接触,那么很难保护你的感官免受这种影响。要回归到最初的原则,你需要有意识地降低世界的音量。
I credit much of the novel work we've done on product development, organizational design, and software tooling at with being far removed from the centers of Silicon Valley. Physically, spiritually, and mentally. Right from the start.
我将我们在产品开发、组织设计和软件工具方面所做的大部分创新工作归功于与硅谷的中心相距甚远。无论是在身体上、精神上还是心理上。从一开始就如此。
Being in Chicago in those early years of the post-dot-com-bust internet was like living in a monastery. We knew there was a party going on a hundred miles inland, but the debauchery was never so close as to color our thinking or tempt our aspirations. We were geographically destined to see the world in a different light.
在那些后互联网泡沫时期的早年,身处芝加哥就像住在一个修道院里。我们知道内陆一百英里处有一场派对正在进行,但放荡不羁从未如此接近,无法影响我们的思维或诱使我们的抱负。地理上注定我们以不同的视角看待世界。
This was before social media. When much of Silicon Valley's propaganda had to be carried by monthly magazines and the occasionally breathless mainstream story. Which made it so much easier to tune out. Now it's more work.
这是在社交媒体出现之前。当时,硅谷的大部分宣传只能通过月刊和偶尔的引人注目的主流报道传播。这使得我们更容易忽视。现在情况变得更加费力。
It takes concerted effort these days to escape the AI FOMO fest, say. Like it required fortitude to resist the fear of missing out on the latest coin hype before that. Every feed is there to homogenize your thinking into a preconfigured camp. For or against, hype or denounce. These are all just plusses and minuses in front of the same thinking.
这些天要摆脱人工智能焦虑狂潮需要共同努力。就像之前抵制错过最新币种炒作一样需要坚韧不拔。每个信息源都在将你的思维同化为预设的阵营。支持或反对,炒作或谴责。这些只是同一思维前面的加号和减号。
If you want more than this, you ought to embrace the paradox that there are times when the less you know raises the bar for what you can do. Don't drown out our inner drumbeat by living all your days inside the permanent intellectual festival of your profession.
如果你想要更多,你应该接受这样一个悖论:有时候,你所知越少,你所能做的就越多。不要让我们内心的鼓点被你专业的永久智力盛会所淹没,不要把你的日子都过在其中。