How do you make your own luck?

5 pieces · 25 min total

  1. Collect as many lottery tickets as you can

    Yeo argues the best life-decision rule is to collect bets with capped downside and uncapped upside, act fast on lucky breaks, and double down on what pays off, as when she chose a crypto startup over Google.

  2. The Mathematical Reason Most People Never "Make It"

    Gichuru uses Price's Law, where the square root of a group does half the work, to argue for producing in volume, finding the few posts and skills that matter, and doubling down on them.

  3. How to be more agentic

    Hall treats agency as a learnable skill and shares the edges that built hers: court rejection, seek anonymous feedback, take random meetings, cross the moat of low status, and avoid burnout.

  4. Breadcrumbs

    Sarris argues virtue lives in careful everyday acts rather than heroics, and that you should leave public breadcrumbs, like writing what you learn, so the right people, jobs, and partners can find you.

  5. Just keep going

    Ahmed answers every doubt he heard while building Whoop, from having no experience to Nike, Apple, and Amazon killing him, with a single reply to keep going.

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