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Of course, you can't control it. At best you can optimise based on the cards you're dealt in life. You can certainly choose to take risks to meet interesting p
by jorleif 14y ago
Of course, you can't control it. At best you can optimise based on the cards you're dealt in life.
You can certainly choose to take risks to meet interesting people, which risks embarassment, rather than jumping off barn tops and risk dying. Similarly, you can choose to tinker with transistors, rather than trying to get rich by going deep in debt and invest in real estate.
- jacques_chester 14y agoI consider these to be examples of playing the cards, not the hand itself. The torture the analogy still further: The "hand" is things like your place and family of birth, your inherited traits, the stability and safety of your upbringing, the quality of your education, your peers and so on. The "playing" of the hand is things like: * Taking advantage of US citizenship to much more easily obtain residency and jobs in the tech sector capitals of SV and NYC. * Taking advantage of a gregarious nature to meet people, shake hands, become known. * Seizing the chance to work with people you met at high school or in college. And so on. The total space of all choices and outcomes is greatly narrowed by elements outside of perceptible detection and control ("luck"); but what's left is still a very large set.
- jorleif 14y agoYou can surely call that playing the cards, the difference with actual cards, is that you can't reliably calculate probabilities, and avoiding too large harm is a good strategy in that case.