中情局前首席技术官：我最赞赏贝佐斯

    4. 你收到过的最好的建议是什么？

    最艰难的工作就是最令人满意的工作。这是我父亲给我的建议。我父母一生都在努力工作。

    5. 你希望参与的下一个大项目是什么？

    我喜欢看到创意变成现实。我很喜欢在Artis Ventures公司的顾问工作，也期待它最终能变成一次参与创造的机会。有能力参与新的事情才是真正让我满意的地方。这也是我整个职业生涯的中心——从事新的事业，推动未来发展。

    6. 如果你过去职业生涯中的有些事情可以重来，那会是什么？

    首先也是最重要的，我希望我在大学的时候能对创业和创新有更深入的理解。我属于婴儿潮一代，大多数婴儿潮一代的主要想法是，你要在一家组织严格的公司工作。人们不会讨论创新和创业。我希望当初能对这方面有更好的理解，因为目前，这正是最令我兴奋的领域。

    7. 你在学校学到的最重要的东西是什么？

    思考，分析，解决问题。这是我在范德堡大学学到最宝贵的东西。如今，标准化考试注重死记硬背的知识，而不考察在实际生活中解决问题的能力，这让我觉得很可怕。从大一到研究生毕业，我的大多数功课都是开卷考试和周末项目的形式。这些功课难度很高，从书中根本找不到现成的答案。必须坐下来，利用自己学到的知识逐个解决问题。

    8. 你休闲时玩什么？

    我喜欢滑雪，尤其是在塔霍湖。我还喜欢骑自行车。我经常读书，也爱好摄影和全景拍摄。我很喜欢旅行。我喜欢去新的地方，做新的事情。当然，旅行离不开美酒和美食。打网球也是我经常参加的一种体育运动。

    9. 你最近读过的一本书是什么？你从中学到了什么？为什么会选这本书？

    乔治•吉尔德的《知识与权力：资本主义的信息理论》（Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism ）。这本书很棒，但我得承认，我并没有完全读透。我喜欢他关于创新的见解，以及为什么供应端是关键，在当代经济学理论中为什么没有考虑创新等。创新是推动经济增长的主要因素。这是一本非常有趣的专著。

    10. 你有什么个人癖好？

    我的怪癖就是并行阅读，我会同时开始阅读许多本书。这种习惯一度让我妻子难以忍受，因为我家里到处都堆满了书。不过，有了Kindle，这种情况已经有所好转。但这种习惯并没有改变，只是我会把阅读的对象集中在更少的领域。(财富中文网)

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓

    4. What is the best advice you ever received?

    The hardest jobs are the most satisfying jobs. I got that from my dad. Both my parents have been hard workers their whole lives.

    5. What's the next big project you want to tackle?

    I like bringing ideas to fruition. I'm enjoying the role of consulting for Artis Ventures, and looking forward to it eventually evolving into an opportunity to help create something. That's where the real satisfaction is, the ability to do something new. It's been the focus of my whole career, to do something new and drive to the future.

    6. If you could have done anything differently in your career, what would it have been?

    First and foremost, I wish I had a better understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation back in university. I grew up as a [Baby] Boomer, and the principal assumption of most Boomers was that you go to work in a corporate hierarchy. There wasn't this talk about innovation and entrepreneurship. I wish I had understood that better because now it's the single most exciting space that's out there.

    7. What was the most important thing you learned in school?

    Thinking, analyzing, and adapting to solve problems. It was the best thing that I got out of my education at Vanderbilt across the board. Today, it scares me that standardized testing focuses on rote knowledge without testing for problem solving abilities in the real world. Starting about my junior year and all through grad school, most of my course work came in the form of take-home exams and weekend projects that were extraordinarily difficult and the answer couldn't be looked up in a book. You actually had to sit down and work through a problem and apply what you learned.

    8. What do you do for fun?

    I like to go skiing, particularly in Tahoe, and I like to bike. I read a lot. I do photography and panoramic work. I like to travel a lot. I love going to new places, doing new things, and of course wine and food goes with the travel. I also play tennis for exercise.

    9. What was the last book you read? What did you learn from it? Why did you choose it?

    Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism by George Gilder. It's a terrific read, and I will admit to not quite being through the whole book. I really love his thought on innovation and why supply side is the one that matters and how innovation is not currently captured in economic theories. It's been the major factor in driving economic growth across the board. It's a really interesting treatise.

    10. What is one unique or quirky habit that you have?

    The quirky habit that I'll confess to is parallel reading, I start many books simultaneously. It's a habit that used to drive my poor wife nuts because I would have stacks of books everywhere all through the house. With the Kindle, I don't have quite as many stacks around the house. I still have them, but I can concentrate them to fewer areas.