2015/01/27 第132期

You can get the code right, you can get the products right, but you need to get the culture right first. If you don't get the culture right then your company won't scale.

1. Scaling takes Iteration
2. Don't Over Design
3. Choose the right tool for the job, but realize that your choice comes with overhead.
4. Get the culture right. Move Fast - break things. Huge Impact - small teams. Be bold - innovate.

In general, he said, enterprise software is a mess and a field of huge opportunities. And while it seems like chat has been around forever, he said, mobile and cloud services are creating new openings for new services like Slack to be more useful to a wider array of employees and businesses. “The time is right for this kind of product,” he said.

Paul Graham 的文章一般都很长。但这篇文章是很短的。中心思想：

If something that seems like work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something you're well suited for.

Reading and writing gave us external and distributable storage. Coding gives us external and distributable computation. It allows us to offload the thinking we have to do in order to execute some process. To put it simply, the next great advance in human ability comes from being able to externalize the mental models we spend our entire lives creating.