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Pmarchive - Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
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On Luck
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Adam Wiggins • Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53
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38:13 - A point about "intentionality" and "taking agency" in your career path. And how we can square that with the reality of randomness and luck. Expand your "luck surface area" • https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area
Adam Wiggins • Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53
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“Luck never sent a few hundred emails, wrote an autoresponder, handled a contract negotiation, etc, but both people who do these things and people who don’t do these things attribute a good deal of their outcomes to it.”
-Patrick McKenzie
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Let me summarize. You've got to work on important problems. I deny that it is all luck, but I admit there is a fair element of luck. I subscribe to Pasteur's ``Luck favors the prepared mind.'' I favor heavily what I did. Friday afternoons for years - great thoughts only - means that I committed 10% of my time trying to understand the bigger problem... See more
Richard Hamming • You and Your Research
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Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
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What is the more productive notion of good luck? One that is defined by totally random factors outside your control, or a matter of probability that can be increased—though not guaranteed—by the right decisions and the right preparation? Obviously, the latter. This is why successful yet mysteriously “lucky” people seem to gravitate toward it.