Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Silicon Valley [audio]

Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by elmigranto on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:05AM (#14366523)

> naturally having cool things come your way as a payoff

You made a bunch of typos in "tremendous amount of luck" :)

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by imron on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:06AM (#14367283)

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by j_s on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:00PM (#14368364)

Jason Roberts of TechZing coined the phrase "luck surface area".

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by ChuckMcM on Thursday May 18, 2017 @01:42PM (#14369324)

Oh I love that. If you want to be successful you really want to maximize your luck surface area.

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by rusk on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:08AM (#14367300)

This sounds like an "operational" definition. A popular alternative is that luck is opportunity.

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by imron on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:30PM (#14368626)

And many opportunities only arise after years of hard work in a given area.

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by eddiecalzone on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:36AM (#14367538)

Chance favors the prepared mind.

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Re:Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Si... by rusk on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:49AM (#14367661)

I love these aphorisms - but strictly speaking chance doesn't favour anything. Things just happen. With preparation you can set yourself to better exploit your luck and circumstances, you can even do things to increase the possibility of good fortune coming your way. But believing you will be lucky if you do the right things is little different from cargo cult philosophy - and is a footnote to the gamblers fallacy.

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