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保罗·格雷厄姆:超线性回报·第6则
保罗·格雷厄姆《《超线性回报》》· Superlinear Returns · 领导 · 成长 · 行动 · 认知
In the startup world, the name for this principle is "do things that don't scale." If you pay a ridiculous amount of attention to your tiny initial set of customers, ideally you'll kick off exponential growth by word of mouth. But this same principle applies to anything that grows exponentially. Learning, for example. When you first start learning something, you feel lost. But it's worth making the initial effort to get a toehold, because the more you learn, the easier it will get. There's another more subtle lesson in the list of fields with superlinear returns: not to equate work with a job. For most of the 20th century the two were identical for nearly everyone, and as a result we've inherited a custom that equates productivity with having a job.
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https://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html
定位:Essay, additional excerpt 6 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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在创业界,这个原则叫“做不可规模化的事”。如果你对最初的一小群客户投入 ridiculous 的注意力,理想情况下会通过口碑启动指数增长。同样的原则适用于任何指数增长的事物,比如学习。刚开始学东西时你会感到迷茫,但值得付出初始努力站稳脚跟,因为学得越多,后续越容易。另一个微妙的教训是:不要把工作和职业等同。20世纪大部分时间两者对几乎所有人都是相同的,结果我们继承了一种将生产力与有工作等同的习俗。
上下文
格雷厄姆以创业为例,说明超线性回报需要初期密集投入,并提醒不要将工作与职业混为一谈。
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你是否有过因为初期困难而放弃学习新技能的经历?现在会如何调整?
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