Individuals search for truth, groups search for consensus.
个人寻求真相，群体寻求共识。
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
行动要快，结果要耐心等。
If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.
如果你无法想象和一个人共事一辈子，那就一天也别一起做事。
Truth-seekers take feedback from nature (planes have to fly), free markets (customers have to buy), or competition (militaries have to win).
Consensus-seekers take feedback from people (actors want fans, academics want honors, politicians want votes, journalists want status).
追求真相的人看现实给出的反馈：自然规律（飞机得飞起来）、自由市场（顾客得愿意买单），或竞争（军队得打胜仗）。 追求共识的人看他人给出的反馈：演员想要粉丝，学者想要荣誉，政客想要选票，记者想要地位。
You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
忙到没空参加随意的咖啡约，同时让自己的日程表保持清爽。
The most important question - what, other than yourself, other than what’s popular, do you truly care about?
最重要的问题是：除了自己，除了流行的东西，你真正在乎什么？
When you look back, you’ll wish you’d just done the long-term version of everything.
回头看，你会希望自己当初做每件事时，都选了更着眼长远的做法。
Every functioning institution is merit-based, not participation-based.
每个有效运转的机构，都以能力和实绩为依据，单凭参与还不够。
The future is more likely AIs fighting AIs (on behalf of humans) than AI fighting humanity.
未来更可能是 AI 代表人类彼此对抗，而非 AI 与整个人类对抗。