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Agreed -- Working hard and strategically for an extended period of time drastically increases your odds of "getting lucky."

And the most successful people in the world aren't "just the luckiest." I'm sure that they required luck to achieve their wealth (as most if not all of them would probably admit), and if they started again from scratch, they may not reach the same extraordinary heights of success. But that doesn't mean they're just lucky. If you study any highly successful person, you'll almost certainly find specific qualities that made success for the person (in some degree) exceedingly likely.

Many people might read a headline like this and then, consciously or unconsciously, marginalize the accomplishments of successful people. I think that's the wrong approach. Instead, I think it's better to focus on (i) improving yourself and your circumstances, (ii) taking action on what's directly within your control, and (iii) learning from successful people. That way, you'll increase your odds of success, and even if you don't reach your goal, you'll be a better person.

In cutting its workforce down from 7,500 to 1,800 employees, I wonder what percentage of Twitter's legal/compliance staff were kept on.

I actually think the cars are still decent quality. I’ve bought a number of them for my 4-year-old son recently, and we have a lot of fun racing and crashing them. They’re holding up well so far after months of daily use.

And even if the quality of Hot Wheels has gone down over the years/decades, I think it’s awesome that each car still only costs about $1. I can easily afford to buy one or two cars every time I go to the grocery store with my son, which makes the shopping experience much more fun for both of us. If the cars were 10x the price, then I couldn’t do that.