This takes me back to the “Oh sh!t I shot Marvin” scene in Pulp Fiction.
Just as we tend to misattribute negative outcomes to Machiavellian calculus, we are quick to call genius the guy whose $5000 seed investment in Uber turned a gazillion X profit. He may simply have been approached during a week he was feeling particularly loaded because his bonus or tax refund had just hit his bank account. There are likely a few people who ended up at Nvidia in the last couple of years not because they were particularly ambitious, but simply because a well timed LinkedIn notification popped up while they were waiting in line for a chicken avocado wrap. I think it goes back to our religious roots. We’ve never been able to shake our desire for a puppet master no matter how secular we become.
This takes me back to the “Oh sh!t I shot Marvin” scene in Pulp Fiction.
Just as we tend to misattribute negative outcomes to Machiavellian calculus, we are quick to call genius the guy whose $5000 seed investment in Uber turned a gazillion X profit. He may simply have been approached during a week he was feeling particularly loaded because his bonus or tax refund had just hit his bank account. There are likely a few people who ended up at Nvidia in the last couple of years not because they were particularly ambitious, but simply because a well timed LinkedIn notification popped up while they were waiting in line for a chicken avocado wrap. I think it goes back to our religious roots. We’ve never been able to shake our desire for a puppet master no matter how secular we become.
Suze Orman bought $5K of Amazon stock in 1997 because the thought the name was cool.