And I remember that by the time I was done putting together the site, I know I had no idea how successful it could be. And I was actually thinking that after day in and day out. I had a different idea that I wanted to do, and I was going to scrap it after that. So I'm happy that I didn't do that. So I think that it's more like how you spend your time doing stuff — to have question there, to have an answer — than like something that I've learned specifically from college.
我記得當我建好網站后,我并不知道它可能會多成功。我真的是每天都在思考。等我有了新點子想去實踐,我就把這網站丟棄不管了。現在我很慶幸當初沒那么干。所以我覺得這個問題的關鍵更像是你如何支配自己的時間去做各種事情——有了問題,然后想出解決的辦法,而不是我在大學里學到什么具體的技能。
I made a ton of random things when I was at Harvard and most of them no one ever saw. A lot of them just weren't meant for other people to see. And there are things that I made for myself because I thought they'll be cool. I used to make stuff like the natural language interface to play my MP3s. Or a thing I made before, this was a Hot or Not program out of everyone's IDs at Harvard, that almost got me kicked out.
我在哈佛的時候編了很多各式各樣的程序,大多數都沒有人見過,因為那都是為我自己做的,我為自己編程序,因為我覺得那很有意思。我為我的MP3做了一個自然的語言界面,之前在哈佛還用每個人的ID做過一個類似Hot or Not程序的網站,因為這個,我差點被哈佛開除。
So I don't know, I actually spent a long time making random stuff. I think that that definitely made it. So by the time it came, more like, by the time I came to meet this random project, I was pretty well tuned toward making that, you know in terms of managing this whole process, nothing. Like I have no idea what I'm doing, you know.
我不知道我實際上花了很多時間編各種程序。這對我后來做的事很有幫助。當這個奇怪的點子冒出來的時候,我已經準備得比較充分,可以實現它了。但說到怎么規劃整個過程時,我沒想過,我都是想到什么干什么。
The two things that you focus on are maintaining what you have now, that's good and growing, all right? What we have now is a pretty good utility. And then, going back to the first question that you ask me, what's the thing that I measure the most? It's that 70% of the people come back to site every day and making sure that that remains, not just because We're doing some gimmicky things.
有兩件事你需要關注,一是保持你現有的,二是發展,對吧,我們現有的就是很好的實用功能。回到你問的第一個問題,我最看重的衡量指標是什么?就是有70%的人每天都來登錄,并且要保持這一水平, 不靠噱頭和花招。