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1、Microsoft has been an awesome place to work over the past twelve years. Today is my last day.过去的12 年里，我一直很喜欢在微软工作，但是今天是我在微软的最后一天。Ive always been somewhat random, so Id like to end this whole adventure true to form: quirky, controversial, optimistic, seat-of-the-pants, with rarely a satisfying explan
2、ation.我一直是一个比较随意的人，所以我希望今天的信也一样是有个性的、有争议的、乐观的、凭感觉的，而可能没有让人读后很满意的答案。Dont look for coherence below you wont find it. And if parts of this offend you, its probably because you dont know me well enough I offend people inadvertently all the time, almost as a rule.请不要在我的信里找连贯性，因为你是不会找到的。如果有内容冒犯了你，那你可能不太了解
3、我，因为我经常会在无意中冒犯到别人，几乎已经成为了定律。Thanks for everything.谢谢所有的一切。In college, I never thought Id work for Microsoft. Then I interned in 1997 and fell in love: free sodas, individual offices (with doors!), Pentium 66s what more could a coder ask? Years later, my manager from the internship quit suddenly when
4、 his hard drive crashed, erasing weeks of code that hadnt been checked in. He said it was a sign from God. I have no idea what hes doing these days.上大学时，我从来没有想过在微软工作。但我1997 年的时候在微软实习后，就对它一见钟情：免费的饮料、自己的办公室、奔腾66. 一个程序员还能要求什么？几年后，我实习时的老板突然离职了。他电脑的硬盘当时发生了故障，丢失了几个月的工作。他说这是一个来自上天的征兆。我不知道他现在人在哪里，在做些什么事情。Pe
5、ople often complain after getting a “bad” review that their manager has a distorted and inaccurate view of them. Dont you think that, of all the people in the world, the person reviewed would have the most biased view of their own performance?I sometimes gently suggest this. People dont believe me.人
6、们在拿到一个不好的业绩审查后总是会抱怨老板和上级不公平而且不客观。但是你不觉得，每个人对自己的评估其实是最不客观的吗？我有时会平和地告诉别人这一点，但是没有人信。Choose carbs. Eat dessert first.吃点碳水化合物。吃饭时先吃甜点。Use Occams Razor in interpersonal relations: look for the simplest, most Jstraightforward explanation that assumes the best of everybody. Stay away from people who always
7、have a conspiracy theory involving twisted office politics, unfulfilled Machiavellian ambitions, and unspoken agendas.在处理人际关系是，我们应该运用奥卡姆剃刀原理（小编注：奥卡姆剃刀定律又称“奥康的剃刀” ，是由14世纪逻辑学家、圣方济各会修士奥卡姆的威廉提出。这个原理称为“如无必要，勿增实体”,即“简单有效原理” 。 ） ，也就是对于别人的行为，找到最简单，最信任别人的解释。对那些爱搞办公室政治，勾心斗角的人敬而远之。Anonymouscollege course evalu
8、ations often ask for the students grade in the class. Turns out that theres a strong correlation between a students grade and their assessment of the professors abilities. I dont listen too carefully when a poor performer tells me how awful their previous manager was. My ears perk up when a star per
9、former constructively criticizes their management.大学里的教授评估往往会参考学生在那门课得到的成绩，因为学生的成绩与他对教授的评价有很明显的关系。我一般不会认真听一个业绩不好的人对他老板的吐槽，但是如果一个业绩好的人批评他的老板，我会洗耳恭听。Bias towards action. “Litebulb” will drain your soul.不行动的话，闲聊会耗尽你的生命（Litebulb 是微软内部的一个广泛话题讨论组） 。Words matter. Connotations matter.字有表意，也有隐含的意思。If you con
10、sistently deliver what the business needs most, and you do it well, its impossible not to get promoted.People tell me this isnt true, that its all about the people you know and about “visibility.” I have no idea how to consistently deliver impactful business results without becoming visible as a sid
11、e effect. I hate it when developers ask me how to become “more visible.” They hate it when I tell them to “do great work.” They think Im mocking them.如果你不断做公司最需要的事情，你是一定会被重用的。有人说，不是的，人际关系和在人前表现自己更重要。我不明白，如果你持续做对公司意义很重大的事情，怎么可能不被别人注意到。我很讨厌程序员问我怎么才能在人前表现自己。他们也很讨厌我的答案“把事情做得更漂亮” ，觉得我是在讽刺他们。Be genuine. N
12、ever give advice for your own advantage. Ive never once counseled a person to join my team or to stay on my team because I needed them.做一个真诚的人。给别人建议时不要考虑自己的利益。我从没有说服过任何人加入我的团队，或者说服他们不要走，仅仅因为我需要他们。JListen to understand. Speak to be understood.听人说话时尽量理解，讲话时尽量容易让别人理解。Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Grea
13、t ideas are usually laughed at. Neither sees the light of day without you taking action. Do the work to prove your idea, or stop talking about it.In an entrepreneurship class in college, I pitched the idea of an online grocery delivery service and got laughed off stage. Hurt, but convinced of my gre
14、at genius, I returned the following week to pitch the idea of online movie rentals using the postal service. I called it NetVideo. Everyone thought it was absurd. I used to tell this story to bolster what I thought was my streak of unrecognized, prognosticating technical genius. These days, I tell t
15、he story to remind myself that in the end, only action and execution matter.好的创意很多。伟大的创意常常会遭受嘲笑，除非你去实现它。不要光说，用行动来证明你的点子。在大学的一门创业课里，我讲了一个网上租看和邮寄电影光碟的点子，我当时把它起名叫“NetVideo” ，所有人都觉得很荒唐。以前我讲这个故事是为了炫耀我当时多么有远见（指后来用相同点子起家的上市公司 Netflix） ，但是现在我讲这个故事是想告诉你，行动和执行是最重要的。Whats your final level at Microsoft? Please
16、dont say CEO or Technical Fellow I can almost guarantee you its not. A realistic appraisal helps you aim for the right things, and is also essential to happiness. A VP once told me that he had already attained the highest position hed ever reach at Microsoft. It wasnt false humility. It wasnt sour grapes. He was confident in his abilities and ambitious about doing great work. He was just more grounded and self-aware than m
