So, technology is the set of things, as Alan Kay said, that don’t quite work yet [correction: Danny Hillis].Once something works, it’s no longer technology.Society always wants new things.And if you want to be wealthy, you want to figure out which one of those things you can provide for society that it does not yet know how to get but it will want and providing it is natural to you, within your skill set, and within your capabilities.Then, you have to figure out how to scale it because if you only build one, that’s not enough.You’ve got to build thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of them so everybody can have one.Steve Jobs (and his team, of course) figured out society would want smartphones.A computer in their pocket that had all the phone capability times one hundred and was easy to use.So, they figured out how to build it, and then they figured out how to scale it.Sales skills are a form of specific knowledge.There’s such a thing as “a natural” in sales.You run into them all the time in startups and venture capital.When you meet someone who is a natural at sales, you just know they’re amazing.They’re really good at what they do.That is a form of specific knowledge.
Ex: Every new thing begins as an uncertain experiment.
例句翻译:每个新事物起初都是不确定的实验。 分析:这里泛指社会尚未掌握但可能产生需求的产品或服务。
Society always wants new things/soʊˈsaɪɪti ˈɔlˌweɪz wɔnts nu θɪŋz/
社会总是想要新事物
Ex: Society always wants new things.
例句翻译:社会总是想要新事物。 分析:“Society always wants new things”在本句中应作为一个整体理解,意为“社会总是想要新事物”。学习时不要把它机械地逐词拆开。
And if you want to be wealthy, you want to figure out which one of those things you can provide for society that it does not yet know how to get but it will want and providing it is natural to you, within your skill set, and within your capabilities.
Ex: And if you want to be wealthy, you want to figure out which one of those things you can provide for society that it does not yet know how to get but it will want and providing it is natural to you, within your skill set, and within your capabilities.
Ex: And if you want to be wealthy, you want to figure out which one of those things you can provide for society that it does not yet know how to get but it will want and providing it is natural to you, within your skill set, and within your capabilities.