【生活小理论】03-工作越做越多?从拒绝给牦牛剪毛开始

信号捕手Eric

如何防止无穷无尽的工作清单?从拒绝给牦牛剪毛开始 原文来自 Seth’s blog ,作者Seth “别给牦牛剪毛!” (Don’t Shave That Yak!) ,实际的意思就是:"learn when to say no to the temptation of endless fiddling. 原理:为了 完成任务A,而不得不做任务B,而不得不完成任务C,而不得不完成任务D....一直到无穷无尽 原文中的案例: 1.“我今天在家想给车打蜡。” 2. 糟糕,可是用来打蜡的水管冬天还是冻裂了。我得去Home Depot (家得宝,家居建材用品零用商) 买一个新的。” 3.“但是Home Depot位于桥的另一侧,通行费很高。没有EZpass (公路电子收费系统电子标签) 优惠的话,通行费会很肉痛。” 4.“咦,等等,我可以借邻居鲍勃的EZpass……” 5.“不过,要是不先把儿子借来的记忆枕头还给他,他不会借我EZPass的。” 6.“我们还没还枕头,因为里面一些填充物掉了。我们需要弄些牛毛来填充一下。” 7.所以,要想给汽车打蜡,你得先在动物园剪牦牛毛。 一、什么是Yak Shaving?就是endless fiddling 为了给汽车打蜡,从而不得不剪牦牛毛(yak shaving),听上去是不是滑稽? 实际上这样的事情我们可能每天都在做(当然某些人比另外一些人更容易干这件事) 为了 完成任务A,而不得不做任务B, ...而不得不完成任务C, ...而不得不完成任务D ....一直到任务X (任务X距离A的距离,就像剪牦牛毛以求给车打蜡) 抽象的说,任何这样的流程的最后一步都是yak shaving,都是在动物园 剪牦牛毛以求给车打蜡一样滑稽,当然,这是正统的定义(“剪牦牛毛”是为了做某事,需要采取的一系列步骤中的最后一步Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occurs when you find something you need to do. “I want to wax the car today.) 实际上,现在已经用yak shving指代这一整个流程,而不仅仅是最后一步 也就是说,为了干a,而做了 bcde.... 都可以看作yak shaving 还有英语国家认人士称其为:endless fiddling 二、为什么会有这样的现象: 其实 底层的逻辑,起码对我来说,是a.希望一次性完成更多 或者b.更好。 a.更多,就是考虑协同效应 ,干a的时候同时顺便把b的一部分做了,但是前头是要先做c.... b.更好 ,就是一个漂亮的,更好的结果 ​ ​ 三、这样的情况,应该怎么处理呢? 当不得不完成B的时候,就要考虑:我必须要完成B吗?有没有办法,换一个思路,避免无穷的拓展 用原文的例子,就是不要去Home Depot Don’t go to Home Depot for the hose. 在你需要去剪牛毛时, 做出妥协是明智之举 。当机立断,在当下完成任务,比无穷无尽的拓展以期获得理想中“更好的结果”或者“最好的结果”更重要。(反思:其实有时候,也需要考虑长远,从体系的角度系统性降低投入,提高产出。) The minute you start walking down a path toward a yak shaving party, it’s worth making a compromise. Doing it well now is much better than doing it perfectly later. 四、其他 2000年,麻省理工学院 媒体实验室把“剪牦牛毛” (yak shaving) 变成了计算机术语。 最早也是 在计算机圈层使用,比如这位网友说: They talk about many hackers spending a lot of their time "lost in life's subroutines" and that "some of us like solving puzzles a bit more than we like solved puzzles." They suggest that super-efficient hackers "learn when to say no to the temptation of endless fiddling." Veeeery interesting. So this is what I've been doing all my life. Shaving Yaks.

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【生活小理论】02-乔布斯“人生的秘密”和“现实扭曲立场”.mp3

信号捕手Eric

So, the thing I would say is, when you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. But that’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is, everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. “The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing – is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. “I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” 另外他自己很年轻就打电话向戴尔求助,要一个小零件,但是大多数人不敢相认求助Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

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