Searching for outliers★(favorite)

Ben Kuhnbenkuhn.netWritten March 20, 202220 min read

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• career

Kuhn argues that jobs, hires, relationships, and blog posts follow heavy-tailed distributions, so you should draw many samples, filter for maybe-amazing over probably-good, and expect to fail a lot.

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