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Luck Surface Area (https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...) defini
by bibabaloo 5y ago
Luck Surface Area (https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...) definitely applies to this, though - it's all about positioning yourself so that you have the opportunity to get lucky.
- ethbr0 5y agoAs my father told me when I was younger, "It's amazing how much luckier well-prepared people are."
- cableshaft 5y agoThis is pretty obvious as a game designer in the board game industry. I'll see a publisher post on Facebook that they're accepting submissions and if I don't have something ready to show I can't take advantage of it. Happened to me just this morning, even, that I saw a publisher say they were accepting submissions I had some games that would be a good fit but I'm still trying to iron out a few things (and could have done that by now, but hadn't).
- sethammons 5y agoI am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. --Thomas Jefferson
- Epenthesis 5y agoEh, luck + effort beats luck, but luck by itself pretty often beats effort. I'm a good deal wealthier than some much harder working + smarter friends of mine because I lucked into joining some (moderately) successful startups.
- yobbo 5y agoFalse. Confronting bad luck with well-prepared diligent effort can be pretty bad, but you can't know if the luck is good/bad without effort. It's like handcuffing yourself to "Schrödinger's albatros". No, luck does not favour the prepared, but survivorship bias makes it seem so.