一周工作四小时不是梦

    你提到了“愚蠢资本”。我曾听其他一些投资者也谈到过这样的观点。

    “愚蠢资本”一般代表只适应顺境的投资者，如果宏观经济大幅度滑坡，它们就会首先撤离。

    很大程度上，无论是健身还是工作，给你带来名望的的都是你关于优化生活的哲学。你怎么把这种哲学和创业活动以及许许多多每周可能真的需要工作很长时间的创业者统一起来？

    我想一名创业者会有几种截然不同的选择。创业者这个词的覆盖范围很广，为了简单起见，就让我们把他定义为开公司的人。他有全职工作，还有带来收入的副业。情况可能会一直如此。他们不必一定要成为纯粹的创业者，也不必进入硅谷这样的圈子，获得风投支持，承受巨大的压力。

    我觉得并不是所有的硅谷准则都和每周工作四小时的概念一致。不过，总的原则，比如尽量提高单位小时产出，在客户服务方面采用80/20分析法以及将工作分为几个批次，更适用于初创型企业，而不是其他环境。原因是对于初创型企业来说，效率低下所产生的成本非常之大。这些公司的唯一优势就是规模小，速度快，效率高。如果哪个初创型企业因为运作混乱而浪费了这样的优势，它就死定了。这样的公司一定会遭殃。（财富中文网）

    译者：Charlie  

    You mention "dumb money." I've been hearing that sentiment from some other investors as well.

    The "dumb money" tends to represent fair-weather investors, so if the macroeconomic takes a huge downturn, that's going to be the first money to flee.

    Much of what people know you for is this philosophy around optimizing parts of one's life, whether it's the body or the workweek. How do you reconcile that with the startup life and a lot of entrepreneurs who may work really long hours?

    Well, I think there are very different tracks you can choose as an entrepreneur. There's a broad spectrum, meaning the term "entrepreneur," let's just for the sake of simplicity say someone who creates a company, fully-employed at any company and have a side business that generates income. Which could persist indefinitely. They do not have to become a full-time entrepreneur. All the way to the venture-backed, high-pressure world of Silicon Valley.

    I don't think that all of the standards in Silicon Valley are congruent with 4-Hour Workweek. However, the general principles -- maximizing per-hour output, 80-20 analysis as applied to customer services, batching tasks -- all apply to startups better than in any other environment. Because the cost of being inefficient at a startup is so enormous. The only advantage you have is being lean, faster, and efficient. If you squander that by having fucked-up processes, you're dead. You're absolutely toast.