Peter Yang：时间终会比金钱更值钱

与@petergyang对话的7点收获。他是Behind the Craft的创作者、Roblox前产品负责人，也是两个孩子的爸爸。 1/ 送孩子上学是Peter日程上最好（而且往往是唯一）的会议。离开Roblox后，他每天步行接送8岁的女儿，单程20分钟；身边没有iPad，女儿就会跟他讲朋友们的事和学校里的八卦。走到门口时，她的朋友们已经等着给她一个拥抱。她曾几次争取让爸爸开车送。Peter说不（他需要自己的步数）。 2/ AI智能体给了Peter一个新的拿手机借口。查看智能体的状态感觉像在工作，这比刷Twitter更容易说得过去，于是他买了一个定时锁盒，现在在乐高和阅读时间把手机锁起来。我问他在社区里是否感到有压力要实时回复，他说：“我在意我的社区，但我在意他们不如在意我的孩子那么多。” 3/ Peter的积蓄可以支撑10年以上，而他仍然在每份工作之间从不休息。一种稀缺心态——一部分来自他父亲，一部分来自持H1B签证的那段时期——让他一直为最坏情况做准备，尽管算下来他其实没问题。他的妻子（他的“真正老板”）定了一个数字，他的生意必须达到这个总收入，他才能辞职。他对大厂人的警告是：那栋400万美元的房子会在经济一转差的那一刻抹掉你的所有选择。 4/ 一场4小时的OKR会议开启了他的创作者生涯。在一次与其他PM为2%还是3%讨价还价的会议之后，Peter满腔愤怒和沮丧地走出来，写了一篇关于创作者经济的newsletter文章。他必须交付*点什么*。在一次绩效评估中，他被告知自己做得很好，但需要更多会议。他称之为产品管理表演：一份战略文档从总监一路爬到副总裁，而每个人都在猜CEO想要什么。 5/ 他8岁的女儿自己用Codex做了一个化妆游戏，全程和Codex对话。Peter把自己那台旧笔记本电脑给了她（“iPad太糟糕了”），当一个矩形盖住了指甲时，她不断给Codex反馈，直到指甲油的颜色改变。她正在学习PM们所鼓吹的“要具体、要简洁”的反馈习惯，同时也在学习耐心，因为她早先对Codex的评价是：“你说它不能立刻做出一个养宠物龙的养成游戏是什么意思？”（他们俩的游戏留存率都是100%。玩家基数：2。） 6/ 钢琴课是必修的，一直上到三年级。之后，就由她自己决定。Peter的岳父母力推钢琴课；Peter想要的是基本能力，然后如果她不喜欢，就可以退出。他仍然后悔自己小时候没有勇气把用HyperCard做的地牢爬行游戏变成职业。他告诉女儿们，他不在乎全A成绩，他更希望她们摆个柠檬水摊，学会销售，也学会失败。 7/ Peter计划把父母的故事录下来，留给女儿们。家里经济拮据时，他们一家在加拿大租了一个地下室；他妈妈曾与乳腺癌搏斗过3到4次；他外婆17岁离家去打仗。他的女儿们从未经历过匮乏，所以他想有朝一日把这些对话变成一本书送给她们，依据的道理是：没有经历过苦难的孩子，可以从经历过苦难的家人那里借来韧性。 完整节目：https://t.co/yaef6xzTvh

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7 takeaways from my conversation with @petergyang, creator of Behind the Craft, former product leader at Roblox, and dad of 2. 1/ The walk to school is the best (and often, only) meeting on Peter's calendar. Since leaving Roblox, he walks his 8-year-old 20 minutes each way, and with no iPad in reach she tells him about her friends and their school drama. When they get to the door, her friends are waiting to give her a hug. She's lobbied to drive a few times. Peter says no (he needs his steps). 2/ AI agents gave Peter a new excuse to grab his phone. Checking on his agents felt like work, which made it easier to justify than scrolling Twitter, so he bought a timed lockbox and now locks the phone away during Lego and reading time. When I asked if he feels pulled to reply to his community in real time, he said, "I care about my community, but I don't care about them as much as my kids." 3/ Peter's savings could cover 10+ years, and he still never took a break between jobs. A scarcity mindset, some of it from his dad and some from a stretch on an H1B, kept him bracing for the worst case even though the math said he was fine. His wife (his "real boss") set a total comp number his business had to hit before he could quit. His warning for big tech folks is the $4 million house that wipes out your options the moment the economy turns. 4/ A 4-hour OKR meeting launched his creator career. After a session spent haggling with other PMs over 2% versus 3%, Peter walked out in a fit of rage and depression and wrote a newsletter post about the creator economy. He had to ship *something.* In one performance review, he was told he was doing great and needed more meetings. He calls it product management theater, where a strategy doc climbs from director to VP while everyone guesses what the CEO wants. 5/ His 8-year-old built a makeup game by herself, talking to Codex. Peter handed her his old laptop ("The iPad's terrible"), and when a rectangle covered the nails, she gave Codex feedback until the polish changed color. She's learning the be-specific, be-concise feedback habits PMs preach, plus patience, since her earlier review of Codex was "What do you mean it can't build a pet dragon raising game instantly?" (Both of their games have 100% retention. The player base is 2.) 6/ Piano is required through grade 3. After that, it's her call. Peter's in-laws pushed for piano lessons; Peter wants basic competency and then an exit if she doesn't enjoy it. He still regrets not being courageous enough to turn the HyperCard dungeon crawlers he built as a kid into a career. He tells his daughters he doesn't care about straight A's and would rather they put up a lemonade stand and learn to sell and fail. 7/ Peter is planning to record his parents' stories for his daughters. His family rented a basement in Canada when money was tight, his mom has had 3 or 4 battles with breast cancer, and his grandma left home at 17 to fight in a war. His girls have never gone without, so he wants to turn those conversations into a book for them someday, on the theory that kids who haven't struggled can borrow resilience from the family members who did. Full episode: https://t.co/yaef6xzTvh