Nocturnographer

Second this. Hell, I'll third it and fourth it as well - it is one of the most simply captivating books I've ever read. Reading it feels exactly like having a conversation with Lockhart about how he views mathematics (I assume at least, I've never met him).

What company do you work for, out of curiosity? I absolutely love this idea; I would be extremely impressed if I showed up for an interview and this happened.

Wait, really? I clicked this fully expecting it to be an article from The Onion.

Actually, physical attributes are probably distributed closer to a Gaussian distribution - most people clustered around the average, with a small number of exceptionally lucky and exceptionally unlucky people in the tails of the distribution.

I would agree with you that in some vague sense, we might be able to think of a "luck distribution" with similar properties; however, it's not obvious what exactly that would mean in terms of what is actually being measured. Wealth? Happiness? Recognition in their field? All of these in the short run? The long run?