Fashionable Problems

December 2019 I've seen the same pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they've all worked on similar things.

2019 年 12 月，我在许多不同的领域看到了同样的模式：尽管很多人在该领域努力工作，但只探索了一小部分可能性空间，因为他们都在做类似的事情。

Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on.

即使是最聪明、最有想象力的人在决定做什么时也会出人意料地保守。

People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working

那些从来没有梦想以任何其他方式变得时尚的人会陷入工作之中

on fashionable problems.

关于时尚问题。

If you want to try working on unfashionable problems, one of the best places to look is in fields that people think have already been fully explored: essays, Lisp, venture funding — you may notice a pattern here.

如果你想尝试解决不流行的问题，最好的地方之一就是人们认为已经被充分探索的领域：论文、Lisp、风险投资——你可能会注意到这里的一种模式。

If you can find a new approach into a big but apparently played out field, the value of whatever you discover will be multiplied by its enormous surface area.

如果你能找到一种新方法进入一个广阔但显然已被淘汰的领域，那么你所发现的任何东西的价值都将因其巨大的表面积而倍增。

The best protection against getting drawn into working on the same

防止陷入同一工作的最佳保护

things as everyone else may be to genuinely love what you're doing.

和其他人一样，真正热爱你正在做的事情。

Then you'll continue to work on it even if you make the same mistake as other people and think that it's too marginal to matter.

然后，即使你犯了和其他人一样的错误，并且认为这太微不足道了，你也会继续努力。

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