Re:Google founder Larry Page’s top 6 tips for making your dr...
by sparkzilla on Friday January 01, 2016 @08:30PM
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Yet another survivorship-bias article with low insight.
1. Follow your dreams and make them real
This is a path to failure. Everyone's got a dream. Few actually work on it. Fewer still succeed on it. Do something that attracts money instead, and make it your dream. This is exactly what Google did. They didn't set out with a dream of becoming the world's largest whatever; they set out just to solve a smaller problem of how to rank web pages.
2. Do the impossible
This is just stupid. Do things in stages. At the most, do something that is at your limits. Impossible stuff has such a slim chance of success, and actually takes enormous effort of many people coming together. This is exactly what Google did. They didn't set out to do the impossible; they set out to solve a smaller problem of how to rank web pages.
3.Work on something uncomfortably exciting!
If you do 1 and 2 this will happen anyway. But let's look at what Google did. Was their first search engine "impossibly exciting"? No, but it was an interesting alternative to what existed before. It became exciting when people started to be attracted to it and they realized they could attract money.
4.Aim to be more lazy
This should be phrased as "Make or do things that save people effort." This is the foundation of capitalism. Hardly insightful.
5.Family and friends are very very important
Can't argue with this.
6.Now is the time to start, we need you
This is also true. Start, iterate. Fail. Try again. Maybe you will succeed. Maybe you won't. But if you do succeed, please, please don't write that it was because you followed your dreams.
1. Follow your dreams and make them real
This is a path to failure. Everyone's got a dream. Few actually work on it. Fewer still succeed on it. Do something that attracts money instead, and make it your dream. This is exactly what Google did. They didn't set out with a dream of becoming the world's largest whatever; they set out just to solve a smaller problem of how to rank web pages.
2. Do the impossible
This is just stupid. Do things in stages. At the most, do something that is at your limits. Impossible stuff has such a slim chance of success, and actually takes enormous effort of many people coming together. This is exactly what Google did. They didn't set out to do the impossible; they set out to solve a smaller problem of how to rank web pages.
3.Work on something uncomfortably exciting!
If you do 1 and 2 this will happen anyway. But let's look at what Google did. Was their first search engine "impossibly exciting"? No, but it was an interesting alternative to what existed before. It became exciting when people started to be attracted to it and they realized they could attract money.
4.Aim to be more lazy
This should be phrased as "Make or do things that save people effort." This is the foundation of capitalism. Hardly insightful.
5.Family and friends are very very important
Can't argue with this.
6.Now is the time to start, we need you
This is also true. Start, iterate. Fail. Try again. Maybe you will succeed. Maybe you won't. But if you do succeed, please, please don't write that it was because you followed your dreams.
Also, with that quality of a list, you might as well have gone with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0
#2) Do whatever you want
-never give up
-always keep fighting
-keep leaning in
-climb higher!
-never let your guard down, or your spirits