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如何成功
How to Be Successful
2019 — 2022，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
Sam Altman 撰写的成功指南，探讨如何赚大钱或创造重要的事物。文章涵盖相信自己、独立思考、努力工作、敢于冒险等特质，并指出人们往往起初想赚钱，最终却更想创造有价值的东西。
为什么经久不衰：它以简洁的方式总结了创业与个人成就的核心原则，多次登上 HN 首页，至今仍是讨论成功定义与路径的经典参考。
HN 评论精选
成功不必是十亿估值，稳定自由的生活同样是成功
如果你已经建立了稳定的业务，能养活自己和身边几个人，这也非常成功。成功并不总是意味着十亿美元估值。我每天都很感激，我如今拥有的稳定和充足资源正是 Sam 所说的那些做法的结果：相信自己、不放弃，打造对他人有意义、不易被复制的东西。我的业务做不了那么大，市场不需要，但我热爱我的工作，拥有极大的自由，在朋友眼中我相当成功。能过上想要的生活、养家糊口，这也是成功。
telesilla查看英文原文
It's also very successful, if you have built a stable business and a way of supporting yourself and a few others around you. Being successful doesn't always mean having a 1BN valuation. But sure, it's nice to think that one day, it could happen. I'm just grateful every day that what I've got now - stability and plenty of resources - was a result of pretty much what Sam said. Believing in ourselves and not giving up, and building something meaningful to others that isn't easily duplicated. Sometimes I feel that's not enough, here on this site, but it is. The business I have right now: it just can't get that big, the wider market doesn't need what I make. But I love what I do and I have insane amounts of freedom and to my friends, I'm wildly successful. I'm reminded by that each time I know I'm doing well enough to live the life I wanted, and can support my family. That's success, too.
文章遗漏了情绪管理这一成功的关键特质
我本来是点进来准备吐槽的，但文章其实相当合理，前提是把标题理解为“如何在商业上成功”。不过它遗漏了一个极其重要的领域：心理和情绪健康。我观察到，那些取得巨大商业成功的朋友，以及我自己效率最高的时期，成功者都能控制好自己的情绪状态——不被批评或赞扬轻易左右，不陷入短期思维或伪危机，不让情绪驱使自己做出后悔的事。这应该排在前三四项关键特质里。
CPLX查看英文原文
I clicked on this expecting to hate-read it and then post something snarky, but it's actually pretty reasonable, assuming you read the title as "How To Be Sucessful In Business" With that said I think it's missing a hugely important area -- which is mental and emotional health. One of the things I've noticed in friends who have incredible business success, and have noticed in myself during periods of greatest productivity, is that successful people are able to keep their emotional state in check. They don't get rolled easily by criticism or praise, they don't get dragged into short term thinking or fake crisis, and they don't let an emotional state push them into saying or doing something that they'll regret, or will blow up a relationship, or give away info in a negotiation. I think it's up in the top 3-4 attributes of those who are able to fit the description described in the article.
低开销、自力更生、留在牌桌上是务实的成功策略
我还不算成功，但我的策略很具体：永远不要让自己陷入破产的境地；留在牌桌上，把开销压到最低；学会编程，这样无需联合创始人就能实现自己的想法；不断把想法做成产品直到有一个成功；尽量自力更生、避免融资——太分心、代价高且稀释时间；尽可能避免雇人；能不找联合创始人就不找，容易争吵导致失败；重复直到成功或自己主动放弃，而不是被迫停止。
throwaway000021查看英文原文
I'm not successful, but my strategy for getting there is specific.... -- never put yourself in the position to go bankrupt -- stay in the game - keep your overheads down to the minimum practical for you -- learn to program so you can implement your own ideas without need for a cofounder or need to pay for anything more than hosting and a domain -- just keep banging out your ideas into products until one catches on. -- try to bootstrap and if possible avoid raising capital - it's too distracting and costly and dilutes your time massively -- do your very best to avoid employing anyone until you really can't avoid it -- don't get a cofounder if you can possibly avoid it - it can lead to arguments and business failure... if you really need help, bootstrap till you can employ someone -- repeat until success or giving up, not because you're forced to stop
文章对“成功”的定义并非普适，读者可自选目标
注意，文章开头就定义了“成功”——“赚一大笔钱或创造重要的东西”。如果你认同这个定义，这篇文章就说得通。但这绝不是普遍适用的成功定义，每个人都应该自由选择自己的人生目标。
codingdave查看英文原文
Note that "success" is defined at the start of the article - "make a huge amount of money or to create something important" If you agree with that definition, this article makes sense. But that is by no means a universal definition of success, and anyone should feel free to choose different goals in life.
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