為什么你應(yīng)該做無(wú)用得東西？

Why you should make useless things

演講者：Simone Giertz

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Hello.?My name is Simone.?You know how people tell you if you get nervous when onstage,?picture people in the audience naked??Like it's this thing that's supposed to make you feel better.?But I was thinking --?picturing all of you naked in 2018 feels kind of weird and wrong.?Like, we're working really hard on moving past stuff like that,?so we need a new method of dealing with?if you get nervous onstage.?And I realized that what I'd really like?is that I can look at you as much as you're looking at me --?just to even things out a little bit.?So if I had way more eyeballs,?then we'd all be really comfortable, right??So in preparation for this talk, I made myself a shirt.

你好。?我叫西蒙妮。?你知道別人怎么告訴你 如果你在舞臺(tái)上感到緊張，想象一下觀眾中的人赤身裸體？?就像這個(gè)東西應(yīng)該 讓你感覺(jué)更好。?但我在想——想象你們所有人在2018年的裸體 感覺(jué)有點(diǎn)奇怪和不對(duì)勁。?就像，我們真的很努力 關(guān)于移動(dòng)過(guò)去這樣的事情，所以我們需要一種新的方法來(lái)處理你在舞臺(tái)上感到緊張。?我意識(shí)到我真正想要的是我可以看著你。 就像你看著我一樣 -?只是為了平衡一下事情。?所以如果我有更多的眼球，那么我們都會(huì) 真的很舒服，對(duì)吧？?

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It's googly eyes.?It took me 14 hours?and 227 googly eyes to make this shirt.?And being able to look at you as much as you're looking at me?is actually only half of the reason I made this.?The other half is being able to do this.

是一雙狡黠的眼睛。?我花了14個(gè)小時(shí)和227只眼睛來(lái)制作這件襯衫。?能夠看著你 你看著我，其實(shí)只有一半 我這樣做的原因。?另一半是能夠做到這一點(diǎn)。

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So I do a lot of things like this.?I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.?For example, brushing your teeth.?Like, it's this thing we all have to do, it's kind of boring,?and nobody really likes it.?If there were any seven-year-olds in the audience,?they'd be like, "Yes!"?So what about if you had a machine that could do it for you?

所以我做了很多這樣的事情。?我看到一個(gè)問(wèn)題，我發(fā)明 某種解決方案。?例如，刷牙。?就像，這是我們都必須做的事情， 這有點(diǎn)無(wú)聊，沒(méi)有人真正喜歡它。?如果有的話(huà) 觀眾席上的七歲孩子會(huì)說(shuō)：“是的！?那么如果你有 一臺(tái)可以為您完成的機(jī)器？

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I call it ...?I call it "The Toothbrush Helmet."

我稱(chēng)之為...?我稱(chēng)之為“牙刷頭盔”。

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So my toothbrush helmet is recommended by zero out of 10 dentists,?and it definitely did not revolutionize the world of dentistry,?but it did completely change my life.?Because I finished making this toothbrush helmet three years ago?and after I finished making it,?I went into my living room and I put up a camera,?and I filmed a seven-second clip of it working.?And by now,?this is a pretty standard modern-day fairy tale?of girl posting on the internet,?the internet takes the girl by storm,?thousands of men voyage into the comment sections?to ask for her hand in marriage --

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所以我的牙刷頭盔是推薦的 十分之一的牙醫(yī)，絕對(duì)沒(méi)有 徹底改變了牙科世界，但它確實(shí)徹底改變了我的生活。?因?yàn)槲彝瓿闪诉@把牙刷的制作 三年前的頭盔，在我完成它之后，我走進(jìn)了我的客廳 我架起相機(jī)，拍了七秒鐘 它工作的剪輯。?到目前為止，這是一個(gè)相當(dāng)標(biāo)準(zhǔn) 現(xiàn)代童話(huà)女孩發(fā)帖上網(wǎng)，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)席卷少女，萬(wàn)千男人航行 進(jìn)入評(píng)論區(qū)求婚——

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She ignores all of them, starts a YouTube channel?and keeps on building robots.?Since then, I've carved out this little niche for myself on the internet?as an inventor of useless machines,?because as we all know,?the easiest way to be at the top of your field?is to choose a very small field.

她忽略了所有這些， 開(kāi)設(shè)YouTube頻道并繼續(xù)構(gòu)建機(jī)器人。?從那以后，我雕刻了這個(gè)小?作為無(wú)用機(jī)器的發(fā)明者，我在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上的利基市場(chǎng)，因?yàn)楸娝苤詈?jiǎn)單的方法 要在你的領(lǐng)域處于領(lǐng)先地位，就是選擇一個(gè)非常小的領(lǐng)域。

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So I run a YouTube channel about my machines,?and I've done things like cutting hair with drones --

所以我經(jīng)營(yíng)一個(gè)YouTube頻道 關(guān)于我的機(jī)器，我已經(jīng)做了一些事情 就像用無(wú)人機(jī)剪頭發(fā)一樣——

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To a machine that helps me wake up in the morning --

到一臺(tái)幫助我的機(jī)器 早上醒來(lái)——

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(Video) Simone: Ow!

（視頻）西蒙妮： 哎呀！

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To this machine that helps me chop vegetables.

到這臺(tái)機(jī)器 這有助于我切菜。

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I'm not an engineer.?I did not study engineering in school.?But I was a super ambitious student growing up.?In middle school and high school, I had straight A's,?and I graduated at the top of my year.?On the flip side of that,?I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.?Here's an email I sent to my brother around that time.?"You won't understand how difficult it is for me to tell you,?to confess this.?I'm so freaking embarrassed.?I don't want people to think that I'm stupid.?Now I'm starting to cry too.?Damn."?And no, I did not accidentally burn our parents' house down.?The thing I'm writing about in the email and the thing I'm so upset about?is that I got a B on a math test.

我不是工程師。?我沒(méi)有在學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)工程學(xué)。?但我是一個(gè)超級(jí)雄心勃勃的人 學(xué)生成長(zhǎng)。?在初中和高中， 我得了全A，我以一年第一的成績(jī)畢業(yè)。?另一方面，我與非常嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題作斗爭(zhēng) 表現(xiàn)焦慮。?這是我發(fā)送的電子郵件 大約在那個(gè)時(shí)候給我哥哥。?“你不會(huì)明白的 我告訴你，承認(rèn)這一點(diǎn)是多么困難。?我太尷尬了。?我不要人 認(rèn)為我很愚蠢。?現(xiàn)在我也開(kāi)始哭了。?該死的。?不，我沒(méi)有意外燒傷 我們父母的房子倒塌了。?我在電子郵件中寫(xiě)的東西 我非常沮喪的是我在數(shù)學(xué)考試中得了B。

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So something obviously happened between here and here.

所以顯然發(fā)生了一些事情 在這里和這里之間。

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One of those things was puberty.

其中之一就是青春期。

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Beautiful time indeed.?But moreover,?I got interested in building robots,?and I wanted to teach myself about hardware.?But building things with hardware, especially if you're teaching yourself,?is something that's really difficult to do.?It has a high likelihood of failure?and moreover,?it has a high likelihood of making you feel stupid.?And that was my biggest fear at the time.?So I came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100 percent of the time.?With my setup, it would be nearly impossible to fail.?And that was that instead of trying to succeed,?I was going to try to build things that would fail.?And even though I didn't realize it at the time,?building stupid things was actually quite smart,?because as I kept on learning about hardware,?for the first time in my life,?I did not have to deal with my performance anxiety.?And as soon as I removed all pressure and expectations from myself,?that pressure quickly got replaced by enthusiasm,?and it allowed me to just play.

確實(shí)是美好的時(shí)光。?但更重要的是，我對(duì)建造機(jī)器人產(chǎn)生了興趣，我想自學(xué) 關(guān)于硬件。?但是用硬件構(gòu)建東西， 特別是如果你在自學(xué)，是真的 很難做到。?它有很高的失敗可能性，而且，它有很高的可能性 讓你覺(jué)得自己很愚蠢。?這是我當(dāng)時(shí)最大的恐懼。?所以我想出了一個(gè)可以 保證100%的成功。?使用我的設(shè)置，它將是 幾乎不可能失敗。?就是這樣 試圖成功，我將嘗試建立 會(huì)失敗的事情。?即使我沒(méi)有 當(dāng)時(shí)意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn)，構(gòu)建愚蠢的東西 其實(shí)挺聰明的，因?yàn)殡S著我不斷的堅(jiān)持 學(xué)習(xí)硬件，我有生以來(lái)第一次不必處理 與我的表現(xiàn)焦慮。?一旦我刪除 來(lái)自我自己的所有壓力和期望，這種壓力很快 被熱情所取代，它讓我只能玩。

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So as an inventor,?I'm interested in things that people struggle with.?It can be small things or big things or medium-sized things?and something like giving a TED talk presents this whole new set of problems?that I can solve.?And identifying a problem is the first step in my process?of building a useless machine.?So before I came here,?I sat down and I thought of some of the potential problems I might have?in giving this talk.?Forgetting what to say.?That people won't laugh --?that's you.?Or even worse,?that you'll laugh at the wrong things --?that was an OK part to laugh at,?thank you.

所以作為一個(gè)發(fā)明家，我對(duì)事物感興趣 人們掙扎著。?它可以是小事，也可以是大事 或中型事物，例如發(fā)表TED演講 提出了我可以解決的一系列全新問(wèn)題。?并識(shí)別問(wèn)題 是我構(gòu)建無(wú)用機(jī)器過(guò)程的第一步。?所以在我來(lái)這里之前，我坐下來(lái)，我想了一些 我在做這個(gè)演講時(shí)可能遇到的潛在問(wèn)題。?忘記該說(shuō)什么。?人們不會(huì)笑 -?那就是你。?或者更糟糕的是，你會(huì)嘲笑錯(cuò)誤的事情 -?這是一個(gè)可以嘲笑的部分，謝謝。

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Or that when I get nervous, my hands start shaking?and I'm really self-conscious about it.?Or that my fly has been open this entire time?and all of you noticed but I didn't,?but it's closed so we're all good on that one.

或者當(dāng)我緊張的時(shí)候， 我的手開(kāi)始顫抖，我真的很自覺(jué)。?或者我的蒼蠅已經(jīng) 整個(gè)時(shí)間都打開(kāi)了，你們所有人都注意到了，但我沒(méi)有，但它已經(jīng)關(guān)閉了，所以我們 都很好。

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But one thing I'm actually really nervous about is my hands shaking.?I remember when I was a kid,?giving presentations in school,?I would have my notes on a piece of paper,?and I would put a notebook behind the paper?so that people wouldn't be able to see the paper quivering.?And I give a lot of talks.?I know that about half of you in the audience are probably like,?"Building useless machines is really fun,?but how is this in any way or form a business?"?And giving talks is a part of it.?And the arrangers always put out a glass of water for you onstage?so you have something to drink if you get thirsty,?and I always so badly want to drink that water,?but I don't dare to pick the glass up?because then people might be able to see that my hands are shaking.?So what about a machine that hands you a glass of water??Sold to the nervous girl in the googly-eye shirt.

但有一件事我真的是 緊張的是我的手在顫抖。?我記得當(dāng)我還是個(gè)孩子的時(shí)候，在學(xué)校做演講，我會(huì)把我的筆記寫(xiě)在一張紙上，我會(huì)放一個(gè)筆記本。 在紙的背后，這樣人們就無(wú)法 看到紙張?jiān)陬澏丁?我做了很多演講。?我知道你們中大約有一半 在觀眾中可能會(huì)說(shuō)，“建造無(wú)用的機(jī)器真的很有趣，但這怎么會(huì)怎樣 還是創(chuàng)業(yè)？?演講是其中的一部分。?而且編曲人總是拿出來(lái) 在舞臺(tái)上為你喝一杯水，這樣你就有東西喝了 如果你渴了，我總是那么糟糕 想喝那水，但我不敢拿起杯子，因?yàn)槟菢尤藗円苍S可以 看到我的手在顫抖。?那么機(jī)器呢 遞給你一杯水？?賣(mài)給緊張的女孩 穿著那件炙癢的襯衫。

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Actually, I need to take this off because I have a thing --

實(shí)際上，我需要取下它 因?yàn)槲矣幸粯訓(xùn)|西——

I still don't know what to call this,?but I think some sort of "head orbit device,"?because it rotates this platform around you?and you can put anything on it.?You can have a camera; you can get photos of your entire head.?Like it's really -- it's a very versatile machine.

我仍然不知道該怎么稱(chēng)呼它，但我認(rèn)為某種 “頭部軌道裝置”，因?yàn)樗D(zhuǎn) 這個(gè)平臺(tái)圍繞著你，你可以在上面放任何東西。?你可以有一個(gè)相機(jī); 您可以獲得整個(gè)頭部的照片。?好像真的—— 這是一臺(tái)用途廣泛的機(jī)器。

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OK, and I have --?I mean, you can put some snacks on it, for example,?if you want to.?I have some popcorn here.?And you just put a little bit like that.?And then you want to --?there's some sacrifices for science --?just some popcorn falling on the floor.?Let's do the long way around.

好的，我有 -?我的意思是，你可以把 例如，如果你愿意，可以在上面吃一些零食。?我這里有一些爆米花。?你只是放了一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)這樣。?然后你想?-?為科學(xué)做出一些犧牲 -?只是一些爆米花掉在地板上。?讓我們做很長(zhǎng)的路。

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And then you have a little hand.?You need to adjust the height of it,?and you just do it by shrugging.

然后你有一只小手。?你需要調(diào)整它的高度，你只需聳聳肩就可以做到。

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It has a little hand.

它有一只小手

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I just bumped my mic off,?but I think we're all good.?OK, also I need to chew this popcorn,?so if you guys could just clap your hands a little bit more --

我只是把麥克風(fēng)撞掉了，但我認(rèn)為我們都很好。?好吧，我也需要咀嚼這個(gè)爆米花，所以如果你們可以的話(huà) 再拍拍手一點(diǎn)——

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OK, so it's like your own little personal solar system,?because I'm a millennial,?so I want everything to revolve around me.

好吧，所以它就像你自己的 個(gè)人太陽(yáng)系很小，因?yàn)槲沂乔ъ淮晕蚁Ｍ磺卸紘@著我。

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Back to the glass of water, that's what we're here for.?So, I promise -- I mean, it still has --?it doesn't have any water in it,?I'm sorry.?But I still need to work on this machine a little bit?because I still need to pick up the glass and put it on the platform,?but if your hands are shaking a little bit,?nobody's going to notice?because you're wearing a very mesmerizing piece of equipment.

回到那杯水， 這就是我們?cè)谶@里的目的。?所以，我保證 - 我的意思是，它仍然有 - 它里面沒(méi)有任何水，對(duì)不起。?但我仍然需要工作 在這臺(tái)機(jī)器上一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，因?yàn)槲胰匀恍枰闷鸩ＡП?并將其放在平臺(tái)上，但是如果您的手 有點(diǎn)顫抖，沒(méi)有人會(huì)注意到，因?yàn)槟愦┲?一個(gè)非常迷人的設(shè)備。

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So, we're all good.?OK.

所以，我們都很好。?還行。

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Oh no, it got stuck.?Isn't it comforting that even robots sometimes get stage fright??It just gets stuck a little bit.?It's very human of them.?Oh wait, let's go back a little bit,?and then --

哦不，它卡住了。?連機(jī)器人都令人欣慰嗎 有時(shí)會(huì)怯場(chǎng)？?它只是卡住了一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。?他們非常人性化。?哦，等等，我們回去一會(huì)兒，然后——

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Isn't it a beautiful time to be alive?

活著不是很美好嗎？

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So as much as my machines can seem like simple engineering slapstick,?I realize that I stumbled on something bigger than that.?It's this expression of joy and humility that often gets lost in engineering,?and for me it was a way to learn about hardware?without having my performance anxiety get in the way.?I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful,?and maybe someday I will.?But the way I see it,?I already have?because I've built myself this job?and it's something that I could never have planned for,?or that I could --

所以就像我的機(jī)器看起來(lái)一樣多 就像簡(jiǎn)單的工程鬧劇，我意識(shí)到我絆倒了 在比這更大的事情上。?這是喜悅和謙卑的表達(dá) 這經(jīng)常在工程中迷失，對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，這是一種方式 在沒(méi)有我的表現(xiàn)的情況下了解硬件 焦慮成為障礙。?我經(jīng)常被問(wèn)到我是否認(rèn)為我曾經(jīng) 去建造一些有用的東西，也許有一天我會(huì)。?但在我看來(lái)，我已經(jīng)有了，因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)為自己建立了這份工作，這是我可以做到的。 從來(lái)沒(méi)有計(jì)劃過(guò)，或者我可以——

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It's something that I could never have planned for.?Instead it happened just because I was enthusiastic about what I was doing,?and I was sharing that enthusiasm with other people.?To me that's the true beauty of making useless things,?because it's this acknowledgment?that you don't always know what the best answer is.?And it turns off that voice in your head?that tells you that you know exactly how the world works.?And maybe a toothbrush helmet isn't the answer,?but at least you're asking the question.

這是我可以做到的 從來(lái)沒(méi)有計(jì)劃過(guò)。?相反，它的發(fā)生只是因?yàn)?我對(duì)我正在做的事情充滿(mǎn)熱情，我正在分享這種熱情。 與其他人。?對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，這才是真正的美 制造無(wú)用的東西，因?yàn)檫@是你并不總是知道的承認(rèn) 最好的答案是什么。?它關(guān)閉了你腦海中那個(gè)告訴你你知道的聲音。 世界究竟是如何運(yùn)作的。?也許還有牙刷頭盔 不是答案，但至少你在問(wèn)這個(gè)問(wèn)題。

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