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Nobody has to actually know the secret of their own success, especially not relative success to equally-secretive near-peers. Same as with rich person autobiog
by ben_w 4mo ago
Nobody has to actually know the secret of their own success, especially not relative success to equally-secretive near-peers.
Same as with rich person autobiographies: even when they tell you what they think it is, they can't see the path not travelled.
- nullbio 4mo agoI'm purely talking about the technology - not their business strategy. I actually think their business strategy is blatantly obvious and atrocious.
- steve1977 4mo ago> Same as with rich person autobiographies: even when they tell you what they think it is, they can't see the path not travelled. Yup, there's a lot of survivorship bias in those. And humans want to attribute success to some skill somehow. You cannot just have been lucky.