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Just read Taleb's Fooled by Randomness chapter on The Millionaire Next Door to understand why this article is, at best, useless.

• jonwinstanley 5y ago
  Why is it useless?
  • mdorazio 5y ago
    The author got incredibly lucky multiple times in ways that are flat out impossible today. This is a shining example of survivorship bias touted as “I did it and so can you!”. Good for the author - he’s clearly industrious and made smart decisions, but treating this as a guide for anything other than “increase your luck surface and take calculated risks” is not going to help many people.
  • digianarchist 5y ago
    It’s like reading How to Be Rich by John Paul Getty and concluding you should go exploring for oil.