Re:OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent startup six-figure loan after ...
by inconceivable on Sunday March 12, 2023 @05:36PM
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if you believe in good luck, do you believe in bad luck? you frame it as "not lucky" instead of "bad luck".
in other words, if you ascribe success to nothing in particular other than luck, why do you put more stock in the negative case? couldn't failure be caused by nothing other than bad luck?
reading failure stories to look for what to avoid might not be the right strategy if you believe in a world where luck dominates.
It is a bimodal distribution of (1) the lucky ones and (2) the ones either "not yet lucky" ones (1/10) or the "never lucky"ones (9/10).
I find it refreshing to hear stories about how things did _not_ work out (from the sources). It is much harder to get the real stories behind the successes because people tend not to ascribe things to luck but create some story after the fact in the same way, as they say, "the winner writes the history".