Some of my thoughts on my mental health during my journey in Open Source
Antfu 的这篇文章 描述了他全职做开源项目后的一些变化,主要是精神层面,有不少内容挺值得思考的。
It’s quite similar to "Make your hobby your job". It indeed has a great amount of benefits, like you will be more enjoyable and productive, but it also comes with obligations and responsibilities. When a hobby becomes a job, you lose the freedom to choose when and what to. Before, you would do your hobbies as after-work relaxation, but now when you want to relax with your hobbies, they become work.
Usually, people would say – in these three factors, you can only pick two. If you want to deliver a project faster, you might have to sacrifice the quality or have a smaller scope of features. If you want to have a high-quality and feature-rich product, you might have to sacrifice speed to deliver good stuff slowly, and so on.
So, to say, I usually pick Quality and Velocity. In the beginning, the scope of my projects was quite clear and small. I managed to keep the quality high, deliver things fast, and get feedback from the community quickly. At that time, I was able to stay productive and motivated to keep working on those projects.
让大脑保持积极思考的状态,可以问这些问题:
- 为什么这个人/事/物会触动到我
- 为什么这个 App 会让我天天打开它
- 为什么跟某 Ta 相处起来会很舒服,有哪些是我没做到的
- 对于这件事,我是怎么思考的,Ta 又是怎么想的,我们之间的差距是什么
- 对于这件事,我会怎么做,Ta 又是怎么做的,我能做的比 Ta 好吗
还有很多问题可以问,只要保持好奇心,就可以让大脑处于积极思考的状态,会有点累,但可能会 lead to a better life.
怎样的电影可以打 4 星,怎样的电影只能打 2 星,没什么标准,自己之前也是凭感觉打。思考了一下,这个标准好像比较简单直接:
★☆☆☆☆ 一遍都看不完
★★☆☆☆ 可以倍速看完
★★★☆☆ 可以原速看完
★★★★☆ 可以再看一遍
★★★★★ 可以看好多遍
做决定时,记得多考虑一项:机会成本。尽量选择机会成本低的那一个。比如想创业,但需要辞职,假如年薪 50 万,那么创业的机会成本就是 50 万(仅从资金层面考虑)。比如有一个创业的 idea,但市场验证、合作伙伴、目标路径等都不明晰,从理性上来讲,辞职的选择是有问题的。当然现实中肯定会有很多考虑项,比如工作不是自己喜欢的,工作太累,这个 idea 太诱人了等等。在众多考虑因素中,不要忽略了「机会成本」这一项。
「喜欢」是分层级的。比如小时候看到魔术表演很帅,自己也想拥有这个技能,于是去学习魔术,这是第一层喜欢。第二层喜欢发生在看到了表象背后的本质以及所需要付出的代价后依然不放弃,并愿意付出这些代价去获得能力上的精进或推动行业前进或改善一部分人的状况。
- 咖啡馆的出现,切断了与咖啡豆的连接
- 超市的出现,切断了买家与卖家的互动
- 餐馆的出现,切断了与食材的连接
- 工厂的出现,切断了与土地的连接
有一些我们以前不在意的连接,因为社会的发展和科技的进步,可能就回不去了,或成为了奢侈品。
做产品时,客户群体也是一个重要的考量点,不同的客户群体带来的反馈和任务量会差很多,尽量选择那些付费意愿和付费能力都强,同时不会执着于一些奇怪需求和反馈的客户群体,这样就可以把大部分的精力放在「如何做好产品」这件事上。
英伟达 CEO Jensen Huang 早年的这个视频,提到了创业公司对失败的包容度,听着挺有道理的,主要有这么几点:
- a tolerance for failure.
- fail quickly and inexpensively.
- change course as soon as you know it's a dead end using intellectual honesty. keep innovate.
很难第一次就做对,快速低成本尝试,诚实地判断这条路是否可行,再决定是否要继续或换方向。