Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay. If you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input— that’s the dream. A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of one thousand or ten thousand. With a leveraged worker, judgment is far more important than how much time they put in or how hard they work.
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在生活中，只要有可能，就应优先追求独立性而非薪酬。如果你拥有独立性，并且你对自己的产出负责，而不是对投入负责——那就是理想状态。一个杠杆型工作者可以比一个非杠杆型工作者多产出一千倍甚至上万倍。对于杠杆型工作者而言，判断力远比他们投入了多少时间或付出了多大的努力更为重要。