I have always been fed conventional wisdom that “one should read as much as possible”. It’s only quite recently that I have started to question that old age fortune cookie wisdom that I had been feasting on my entire life. Reading is a form of getting information into your brain, or if I simplify it…
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Extreme Success and Survivorship Bias
This post is influenced by two of my favorite books, ‘Fooled By Randomness’ And ‘Steve Jobs’ Whenever I go to the bookstore, I see a lot of intoxicating books on the rules to be successful. They are all merely accounts of survivorship bias. We often assume the extremely successful have something special in them that…