Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
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When I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for generating a contemptuous initial reaction. Though simple solutions are better, they don’t seem as impressive as complex ones. Overlooked problems are by definition problems that most people think don’t matter. Delivering solutions in an informal way means that instead of judging something by the way it’s presented, people have to actually understand it, which is more work. And starting with a crude version 1 means your initial effort is always small and incomplete.
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I’d noticed, of course, that people never seemed to grasp new ideas at first. I thought it was just because most people were stupid. Now I see there’s more to it than that. Like a contrarian investment fund, someone following this strategy will almost always be doing things that seem wrong to the average person.
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As with contrarian investment strategies, that’s exactly the point. This technique is successful (in the long term) because it gives you all the advantages other people forgo by trying to seem legit. If you work on overlooked problems, you’re more likely to discover new things, because you have less competition. If you deliver solutions informally, you (a) save all the effort you would have had to expend to make them look impressive, and (b) avoid the danger of fooling yourself as well as your audience. And if you release a crude version 1 then iterate, your solution can benefit from the imagination of nature, which, as Feynman pointed out, is more powerful than your own.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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When you are young your mom and dad may give a lot of things. As you grow older you may have a sort of entitlement. You may feel like the world should just give you what you want or that it owes you something.
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This belief can cause a lot of anger and frustration in your life. Because the world may not give you what expect it to. On the other hand, this can be liberating too. You realize that it is up to you to shape your own life and for you to work towards what you want. You are not a kid anymore, waiting for your parents or the world to give you something.
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You are in the driver’s seat now. And you can go pretty much wherever you want.
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[memo] Lately, I find myself quoting my dad even if it was something he didn’t say. Whatever my point, it might as well have come from him. He seemed to know everything.
[memo] When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’re given up on you.
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[memo] What we really want them to learn is far more important; teamwork, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a “head fake”.
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[memo] There are two kinds of head fakes. The first is literal. On a football field, a player will move his head one way so you’ll think he’s going in that direction. Then he goes the opposite way. It’s like a magician using misdirection. Coach Graham used to tell us to watch a player’s waist, “Where his belly button goes, his body goes,” he’d say.
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[memo] The second kind of head fake is the really important one — the one that teaches people things they don’t realise they’re learning until well into the process. If you’re a head fake specialist, your hidden objective is to get them to learn something you want them to learn.
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[memo] This kind of head fake learning is absolutely vital. And coach Graham was the master.
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この二つ目の headfake は日本だと、「徒弟奉公」的な文脈で語られることが多いような気がする。欧米系の人にはそんな概念なんてないと思っていたけれど、そんなことはなかったんだよね。仕事のできる人って、洋の東西を問わず head fake による学びを大事にしていたんだ。そんな発見があった。
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[memo] It took a long time, but I’ve finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
I could write a whole book about how I should be, what I should have done and what I should be doing, couldn’t you? The world seems to be full of experts on my life who like to tell me what I should be doing. Living with Beginner’s Mind means letting go of shoulds. I’m not advocating living without our own moral standards. I think that most of our shoulds reflect other peoples’ ideas on what our life should look like. We can let go of them.
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Pressure is a fuel and if you embrace it rather than letting it get you emotional, you can put things off to the last minute and still do a good job, harnessing the energy that pressure builds up.
When we’re working on something without a sense of urgency and pressure, we’re usually stopping to check email or chat with the guy in the next cubicle in the process. When pressure kicks in, so does a great deal of focus and a degree of tunnel-vision that prevents us from getting distracted by unimportant things.
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Working smart involves identifying the things you need to do that will give you the best results. The Pareto principle is a perfect example of doing just that. It states that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. The percentages here are not meant to be absolute (although they are strikingly accurate in most cases), but are there to give you a rough estimate in terms of the lopsided differential between the two concepts.
Hard work is great, but it should be applied to the work that’s been “filtered” by working smart FIRST. You work hard after you learn how to work smart and as a result, reap the best benefits of both worlds.
What you’ll find is that when you put all your eggs in one basket in the beginning, when you risk’ early on, you gain much more “concentrated” value, win or lose and with that, you find it easier to reduce the risk later on.
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But if you live your life in fear and try to reduce risk early on, you’ll never gain any “concentrated” value in the form of experiences and lessons that only through risk will you TRULY be able to learn.
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So put those eggs in that one basket when you first start out.
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Watch that basket carefully.
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Regardless of the outcome, you will learn valuable “concentrated” lessons either way.
But the dangerous thing about always doing the popular thing is that you let go of your responsibility to make sure everything goes through YOU first, before you make any decisions and you begin to rely on others too much to make the decisions for you.
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And the longer this goes on, the harder it becomes for you to truly do what you want to do when the time comes.
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Don’t give up your internal thinking and leave it up to people outside of you.
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In my work I go around the world giving keynote talks on leadership and innovation and I often address large, prestigious audiences. Part of the reason that I can do that is because one teacher took the initiative and gave me a challenge. He asked me to do something I had never done and helped me to learn how to do it.
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Education is not about league tables or exam results. It is about opening doors for people and showing them rooms that that would otherwise be hidden. If we can challenge children to try things and to learn what they can achieve then maybe one day we will be remembered with the gratitude that I hold for Mr Priestley.
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But here’s the secret most people don’t know. It’s a secret that most successful people know. You don’t actually have to “conquer” fear. You have to master it. Mark Twain once said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Successful people aren’t people who conquered fear, they’re people who faced fear. They’re people who were afraid and did it anyway.
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“Because it sucks” is not a reason to redesign. “It sucks” leaves the scope wide open with no measure of success. It’s a sure way to scrap the good decisions you made along with the mistakes.
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Instead, start the redesign with a question: “What is right about this design?” Use that perspective to identify specific problems and then target those exact problems.
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People take days off of work, spend hundreds on a conference ticket, travel for thousands of miles, and pay hefty rates for flights and hotels to come hear you speak, and you tell them you didn’t have time to prepare a talk? What’s cool about that? The audience is busy too, but they found time to come to the conference. You can’t find time to properly prepare a presentation for them?
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
Adria’s idea is that if you listen to customers, what they tell you they want will be based on something they already know. If I like a good steak, you can serve that to me, and I’ll enjoy it. But it will never be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. To create those experiences, you almost can’t listen to the customer…Adria says he doesn’t listen to customers, yet his customers are some of the most satisfied in the world. That’s an interesting riddle to consider.
There’s never really a great way to apologize, but there are plenty of terrible ways.
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If you’re at a coffee shop, and you spill coffee on someone by accident, what do you say? You’ll likely say “Oh my god, I’m so sorry!” When you mean it you say you’re sorry – it’s a primal response. You wouldn’t say “Oh my god, I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused!” But that’s exactly how most companies respond when they make a big mistake.
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Mistakes happen. How you apologize matters. Don’t bullshit people – just say “I’m sorry”. And mean it.
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All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism ― it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
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The samurai warriors of Kamakura period put much importance on the idea of “trustworthiness”. People, in all eras, must have a trustworthy character. Human beings, both men and women, do not find an untrustworthy character attractive.
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In retrospect, the most happy time in Koan’s life was probably the period when he was teaching his students. Koan was a man who took the torch he had received from his mentors and made its flame all the brighter. His greatness was his continuous passing on of his fire to each and every one of his students. The fire of his students’ torches later shined brightly in their respective realms. In the end, their fires became the great light that illuminated Japan’s modern era. We, the generation that followed, must be thankful to Koan.
Growing up is a trap. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Turning ambition into success is hard enough as it is. Whether you’re taking time to work on a project on the side or you’re launching a full-time business, it’s going to require peak personal investment. Not in terms of working crazy hours, but of dedication and perseverance.
Expect hope to be rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through the struggle, because we know that such power is worthless.
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「監督が厳格な人であることは正しい。ただ、彼が求めることはプロ選手としてやるべきことで当たり前のことだと思う。持てる力を最大限に発揮するためにトレーニングを全力で行い、サッカーを離れても心身ともにケアを怠らないようにする。それは当然のことで、チームを形作る選手たちが万全の状態であるべきだと監督が求めるのも当然のことさ。監督は大きな希望を持ってシャルケで仕事をしている。優れた選手たちでチームを作り、ブンデスとチャンピオンリーグで上を目指している。その中の一員として迎えて貰ったことは幸せなことだよ」 (ラウール on シャルケのゴンザレス監督)
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ここらへんとか Paul Graham らしい気がしています(上は原文、下はShiroさんの訳)。学校や大企業ではゲームの攻略法を見出しさえすればうまく行くけれども、スタートアップの価値は攻略本通りに進めてもダメなんだと言い切っちゃってます。
> So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working. Gaming the system may continue to work if you go to work for a big company. Depending on how broken the company is, you can succeed by sucking up to the right people, giving the impression of productivity, and so on. [2] But that doesn’t work with startups. There is no boss to trick, only users, and all users care about is whether your product does what they want. Startups are as impersonal as physics. You have to make something people want, and you prosper only to the extent you do.
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> これが、スタートアップについて覚えておくべき、3つめの反直観的な項目だ。 スタートアップを始めるということは、ゲームの攻略法が効かなくなる領域に足を踏み出すということだ。 大企業に勤めるなら、システムを攻略するやり方はうまくいくだろう。 企業が壊れていればいるほど、適切な人々に取り入ったり、何か仕事しているふりをしていれば、 それなりに成功できるだろう。 [2] けれどもそれはスタートアップではうまくいかない。 ごまかすべき上司はいない。ただユーザがいるだけで、ユーザは自分の望むことを あなたの製品がやってくれるかどうかにしか関心がない。スタートアップは、 まるで物理学みたいに、人間関係とは無縁のところにある。人々が望むものを 作るしかないし、それをどれだけやれたかで成功の限界が決まる。
ここらへんも Controversial ですよね:
> Though in a sense it’s bad news in that you’re deprived of one of your most powerful weapons, I think it’s exciting that gaming the system stops working when you start a startup. It’s exciting that there even exist parts of the world where you win by doing good work. Imagine how depressing the world would be if it were all like school and big companies, where you either have to spend a lot of time on bullshit things or lose to people who do. [3] I would have been delighted if I’d realized in college that there were parts of the real world where gaming the system mattered less than others, and a few where it hardly mattered at all. But there are, and this variation is one of the most important things to consider when you’re thinking about your future. How do you win in each type of work, and what would you like to win by doing? [4]
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> 今まで身につけてきた中で一番強力な武器を取り上げられたと考えると、 これは悪いニュースだろう。けれども、スタートアップを始めることで これまでの攻略ゲームの外側に踏み出せるってことは、 わくわくすることだと思う。既存のゲームに合わせるのではなく、 ただ良い仕事をしていれば勝てる領域がこの世にある、ってことは、すごいことじゃないか。 世の中が全て学校や大企業みたいだとしたら、どれだけ気が滅入ることか考えてごらん。 くだらないことに時間を費やさなければならなくて、 しかもそのくだらないことにもっと時間を費やした人に負けたりするんだ。 [3] 現実の世界の中に、他よりもくだらないゲームを攻略しなくていい場所や、 そんなことが問題にならない場所があるってことを 大学生のうちに知っていたら、私は狂喜したと思うよ。 そして、そういう場所はあるんだ。 あなたが自分の将来を考えるにあたって、この場所の違いを知ることは決定的に重要だ。 それぞれの仕事において、どうやって勝てばいい? そして、何をして勝ちたい? [4]
他にもこの辺のエッセー好きですね:
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