山姆·奥特曼19岁的奥特曼与他人共同创立了社交网络平台Loopt，并担任首席执行官，29 岁创立OpenAI，随后发布 ChatGPT。2023 年年终发布了博客《我希望有人告诉我》，分享自己的心得。
1. Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
乐观、痴迷、自信、原始动力和人际关系是事情开始的方式。
2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time.
团结的团队、冷静与紧迫感的正确结合以及不合理的承诺是事情得以完成的方式。长期导向供不应求；尽量不去担心短期内人们的看法，随着时间的推移这会变得更容易。
3. It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.
一个团队做真正重要且困难的事情比做不重要但容易的事情更容易；大胆的想法能激励人们。
4. Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.
激励是超级力量；谨慎设置。
5. Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think.
集中资源于少数几个高信心赌注；说起来容易，但显然很难做到。你可以删除比你想象的更多的东西。
6. Communicate clearly and concisely.
清晰简洁地沟通。
7. Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.
每次看到垃圾和官僚主义就与之斗争，并鼓励其他人也这样做。不要让组织结构阻碍人们高效协作。
8. Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.
结果才是最重要的；不要让良好的过程成为糟糕结果的借口。
9. Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence.
花更多时间在招聘上。对那些有快速提升潜力的人冒险。除了智力，寻找完成工作的证据。
10. Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization.
超级巨星的价值甚至超过我们的想象，但你必须评估他们对组织绩效的净影响。
11. Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.
快速迭代可以弥补很多；如果你快速迭代，犯错误通常是可以接受的。计划应以十年为单位衡量，执行应以周为单位衡量。
12. Don’t fight the business equivalent of the laws of physics.
不要与商业界的物理定律作斗争。
13. Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.
灵感易逝，生命短暂。不作为是一种特别隐蔽的风险。
14. Scale often has surprising emergent properties.
规模往往具有令人惊讶的涌现特性。
15. Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.
复合指数是神奇的。特别是，你真的想建立一个随着规模扩大而获得复合优势的企业。
16. Get back up and keep going.
站起来继续前进。
17. Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.
与优秀的人共事是生活中最好的部分之一。
