Re:Ask HN: Are Startups similar to college admissions?
by muzani on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:49PM
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Luck is the determining factor to life. Except both startups and colleges use different types of luck. Startup luck is more similar to 'real life' luck. College admissions luck is much more controllable in a sense.
Pretty much everything you do should be just to put yourself in a position to be lucky. It's sort of like sports - there's no one guaranteed strategy to score goals, but you have to put yourself in a good position to be lucky.
A degree doesn't guarantee you a better career. It just puts you in a good position to be lucky - if an opportunity lands, it's likely going to the one with more education.
You be nice to people because it helps you get lucky. You be proactive because it helps you get lucky. You work really hard because the world respects hard workers, which helps you to get lucky.
Presence helps you get lucky. i.e. not being in the future or the past, or in some virtual world. Just being present, observing the world as it is, finding the irregularities that everyone is too busy to see.
Or heck, just smiling a lot, being optimistic, cheerful, energetic, fun to be around.
Basically there's a lot of these little things that help a lot in getting lucky. But this doesn't apply so much to college applications besides interviews.
Pretty much everything you do should be just to put yourself in a position to be lucky. It's sort of like sports - there's no one guaranteed strategy to score goals, but you have to put yourself in a good position to be lucky.
A degree doesn't guarantee you a better career. It just puts you in a good position to be lucky - if an opportunity lands, it's likely going to the one with more education.
You be nice to people because it helps you get lucky. You be proactive because it helps you get lucky. You work really hard because the world respects hard workers, which helps you to get lucky.
Presence helps you get lucky. i.e. not being in the future or the past, or in some virtual world. Just being present, observing the world as it is, finding the irregularities that everyone is too busy to see.
Or heck, just smiling a lot, being optimistic, cheerful, energetic, fun to be around.
Basically there's a lot of these little things that help a lot in getting lucky. But this doesn't apply so much to college applications besides interviews.