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Suggestion for the author: Jason's friend Gabriel Weinberg (also the founder of DDG) wrote about Luck Surface Area as one of the portable mental models in his
by AlchemistCamp 4y ago
Suggestion for the author:
Jason's friend Gabriel Weinberg (also the founder of DDG) wrote about Luck Surface Area as one of the portable mental models in his best-seller, Super Thinking (https://amzn.to/3weREdA https://amzn.to/3weREdA).
I like patio11 and all but I don't think his guest podcast many years later was key in popularizing the idea. It had also already been mentioned on many podcasts over the entire previous decade and on the front page of HN multiple times.
- ignoramous 4y ago> I like patio11 and all but I don't think his guest podcast many years later was key in popularizing the idea. I felt those names were placed as an "argument from authority" [0] (those are good arguments regardless!); and given the author's background (tech), it isn't completely unexpected that those authoritative figures happen to be VCs / investors. That said, blogs aren't really accurate sources of information, anyway. Besides, tech twitter is an echo chamber ;) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
- swyx 4y ago[author here] argument from authority does have its place actually but also there is a more benign reason to mention them - they are how I learned of the concept so I am simply acknowledging my own ideological lineage
- ignoramous 4y agoAgree. Just a nit, though... > I am simply acknowledging my own ideological lineage >> TFA goes: "A parallel, older school of thought dates back to James Austin in 1978 and was repopularized by Marc Andreesen in 2007, then Naval and Nivi a decade later." ...doesn't only come off as an "acknowledgement", which is the point GP is making.