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按：国外有个叫Buffer的创业团队公开了自己的薪酬标准，可以参考。本人重点翻译下。 When we first established the Buffer values that we wanted to have as the center of our company culture, we knew that sticking to these ideas would be an incredible challenge. Especially since we’ve seen before that these values can easily end up being little more than a set of words written on a piece of paper. In our culture deck , the second value on our list at Buffer is “Default to Transparency.” With this point especially, we started to think about everything we do within the company and how we could change it to something more transparent. Sticking to radical transparency was probably both one of the most frightening and exciting things to do over the past months. It has meant to open up and make ourselves extremely vulnerable for ideas, since they were easily accessible to everyone on the team. Let me give a few examples of where we’ve started to put more transparent workflows in place: Complete openness about our revenues and user numbers: Every month we publish the investor update here on the Open blog. 完全公开我们的收入和用户数量 Progress reports on Buffer’s customer support , Buffer blog performance , Buffer for Business performance : Holding ourselves accountable and putting all these monthly reports out there, was another big step. 公开客户支持的进度报告、系统性能、业务表现 Every internal email sent between any 2 people on the team has a certain list cc’ed that is accessible for everyone : For example, if 2 engineers email with each other, they cc the engineers list, if it’s people on our customer support team they have a support email list cc’ed. Stripe was a great inspiration for this. ( More about this ) 团队内的邮件互相公开 Personal self-improvement at Buffer: To make this fully transparent, we are using IDoneThis to help us share our improvements daily and keep ourselves accountable. We’ve also published more around this here . 个人成长 From the examples above, I often reflect on the power of transparency. I believe that it has such a unique potential to empower and inspire a team that it has largely transformed how we run Buffer. One key reason transparency is a such a powerful value for a company’s culture is trust: Transparency breeds trust, and trust is the foundation of great teamwork. Another thing that happens when you default to transparency is that it breaks down barriers within the team drastically. This is simply because defaulting to transparency means that you share every idea or new direction very early, before it’s completely solid.

‘People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.’ ~Thich Nhat Hanh By Leo Babauta The end of procrastination is the art of letting go. I’ve been a lifelong procrastinator, at least until recent years. I would put things off until deadline, because I knew I could come through. I came through on tests after cramming last minute, I turned articles in at the deadline after waiting until the last hour, I got things done. Until I didn’t. It turns out procrastinating caused me to miss deadlines, over and over. It stressed me out. My work was less-than-desirable when I did it last minute. Slowly, I started to realize that procrastination wasn’t doing me any favors. In fact, it was causing me a lot of grief.

Just finished reading Plato’s Utopia and other related works about the “neverland”. I think the finalized Utopia is impossible for the resources are always limited. But at some circumstances, it’s not a mirage. 刚看完柏拉图的《理想国》和其他相关作品。我觉得一个稳态下的理想国是不存在的，因为资源总是有限的。但在某特定时期内特定环境下，乌托邦却有可能短暂的存在。 For instance, in the fairy tale “The farmer and the goldfish”, every time the goldfish satisfy the old woman by giving them what they want, the day was perfect without regrets. It’s a very short moment though, they are in Utopia, until the next day the old woman want something more.

Come closer, to touch the sky. What’s the feeling when touching it? Maybe nothing.. Just like touching the clouds in the sky. Is it Illustration..? Tell me, Sky.

Jan 22nd, 5AM. I dreamt of you. In the dream, you called me, said you want to see me. Just when I choose the place, I woke up. What a dream that I wanna go back to, but it is a different one.

The longer I work with different teams, the more important I feel to respect my work and my team member’s job. Respect is kind of attitude-level thing. So for junior level colleagues, they will do work well despite their attitude is “right” or “wrong”. But as you level up, especially when you are the CEO of a company. Everyone will be affected by your attitude. I did a lot of wrong things to realize how important the respect is. ...

Although I used to break my comfort zone several times, but this time, it’s really a big one. I decide to start my own business together with someone I just met, into a unfamiliar industry. In a way, to be an enterpreneur. It is a “cannot-be-more-traditional” traditional industry - the agriculture, food industry. Now, China got a huge crisis on the food industry. Too much unhealthy food are eaten everyday. Even the rich who want to buy “clean” food, they can hardly find them in the supermarket. The needs of trustful healthy food are definite and clear. ...

February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it’s better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what would the other 9 be?{{ double-space-with-newline }}我经常给创业者讲的关于创业的一个原则是：尽你的所能，使得少数人获得百分百满意，这样比让大多数人获得一半的满意来得更为重要。这是我从保罗·布希海特（Paul Buchheit）那里学到的。我最近接受了一个记者的采访，他让我说出创业者应该注意的十件事情，我说，这就是其一。但是其他的九个注意事项又是什么？ When I made the list there turned out to be 13:{{ double-space-with-newline }}于是我简单罗列了一下，发现原来有13样： 1. Pick good cofounders.{{ double-space-with-newline }}1、选择一个好的搭档。 Cofounders are for a startup what location is for real estate. You can change anything about a house except where it is. In a startup you can change your idea easily, but changing your cofounders is hard.?[1]?And the success of a startup is almost always a function of its founders.{{ double-space-with-newline }}对于创业者来说，一个创业搭档的重要性就有如地点对于房地产的重要性一般。一间房子，你怎么改都行，就是不能改它的地点。对于创业者而言，要改变想法是很容易的，但是要改换创业搭档就很难了。[1] 而每一个草创之业能够取得成功，皆离不开其创立者的共同影响。 2. Launch fast.{{ double-space-with-newline }}2、及早出笼。 The reason to launch fast is not so much that it’s critical to get your product to market early, but that you haven’t really started working on it till you’ve launched. Launching teaches you what you should have been building. Till you know that you’re wasting your time. So the main value of whatever you launch with is as a pretext for engaging users.{{ double-space-with-newline }}及早出笼的意思不是说让你的产品第一时间推出市场，而是说，只有当你真正将想法付诸行动之后才表明你在工作了。而这一个过程中你也学会了该做什么样的产品。在此之前，你都只是在浪费自己的时间。这时候，不管你拿出的是什么东西，都不过是用来吊客户的胃口而已。

February 2009 I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. 我今天终于弄明白了为什么唯独政治和宗教总会产生如此多无用的口水。 As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums? 一般说来，论坛上面的只要牵涉到宗教都会变味，演变成一场有关宗教的口水战。这是为什么？为什么人们在论坛谈信仰的时候就会发生这事，而谈Javasacript或是面包烘烤技艺时等此类事情时却不会演变口水大战。 What’s different about religion is that people don’t feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held beliefs, and anyone can have those. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to be over some threshold of expertise to post comments about that. But on religion everyone’s an expert. 信仰之所以演变成口水大战是因为参与者觉得他们无须任何特定的专门知识就可以它发表看法。他们所需要的只是拥有一种强烈的信念，而信念这东西每个人 都不缺。讨论Javascript帖子的楼层永远盖不过些信仰贴。因为网民们总觉得要想对Javascript话题作评论，他们还需要迈过专业知识这道门 槛。但是，一旦涉及信仰，人人都觉得自己是专家。 ...

{{ double-space-with-newline }}I heard that people’s life is only lasts 900 months. And I made a table to count it down. Shocked, 334 months had silently passed without noticed, and 568 remain. I printed a countdown table and stick it on my desk. Time is everything. 900 Countdown Table