Did I Do That?: A Look Back at Past Mistakes

If you have the opportunity to return to be in time to fight the young self, acknowledge this. A dream will come true that you can see your own small fifth grade version of the eye directly and then shake a huge hand on the side of the face. With this in mind, I am very excited. Our own young version is stupid and we did embarrassing things. By returning to the past, you will help young people leaving a big red face like a face on your child.

Google has passed more than five years, but I looked back over the past five years and saw many mistakes. When I see the wrong parade in my head, such as cultural errors, technical errors, product errors, I think what I most want is that I can avoid them. I think there is no mistaken learning or progress. We hope that we can make all these mistakes faster. Google has made great strides and I am proud of what our team has achieved. We think that we made a big progress, depending on how we experimented, we got negative results in this process, and how we focused and addressed these negative consequences. We graduated from more than 10 projects. Some of them are more mature (such as the Google Deep Learning Network graduated two years ago) and other projects (such as Google Glass and Flux) have many directions, but it is difficult to complete.

Looking back on the era when I really wanted something different from reality, most of my past product errors have some important problems. I am writing down this. Hopefully it will help you add to the list of what you are actively seeing when you make various product decisions through your career. At that time I did not talk. This is my TOP error bucket. When you are listening to ideas, decisions, or plans, you know, you just let me hear the alarm inside you. But my brain's problem is that for some reason its default setting is to question its own alarm. "I was a person who asked too many people this week, I thought that if I said nothing, I would be a fool, so it is no longer worth." Listening, this is always wrong. I mean that your opinion is not heard all the time, maybe it should not, but you should always share it.

Always pay attention to yourself, you should be your role model. If I go back in time, I will not change one thing. If I do this, I will not be myself today. There was regret, there was a mistake in the past, but I learned something. It makes me strong, everything is for reasons