《超线性回报》

One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns for performance are…

The result, then as now, was that some people were startlingly more knowledgeable than the rest about certain topics. But this didn't affect…

You're learning; you don't know for sure yet what's going to be valuable, and if you're too strict you'll lop off the outliers. What about step…

And prestige was an accurate predictor, because if you weren't part of an organization, you weren't likely to achieve much. There were a handful of…

It will also be important to choose work that suits your circumstances. For example, if there's a kind of work that inherently requires a huge…

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…

But this is hard for us to empathize with because we're not the recipients; we're the returns. [ 2 ] Knowledge did of course have a practical…