If "leverage" was defined (it's a technical, non-dictionary, meaning), and examples given, the hypothesis could be tested against each instance. - Financially,

If "leverage" was defined (it's a technical, non-dictionary, meaning), and examples given, the hypothesis could be tested against each instance. - Financially, leverage means debt; more capital means you can do more. - Hiring people increases leverage. - Automating tasks increases leverage: whether it be windmill or bash script. - "Buy (or use open source, or reuse) not build" increases leverage. - Working smarter not harder, in general, increases leverage. From these examples. I see that the author meant leverage that depends on other people. The last three examples depend only on self-reliance, so you can do them right now. There's no perversity law for them. Incidentally, there's a "Muphry's Law" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law