RE: https://mastodon.art/@petrikas/116125821528139989
Middle class kids like me can get one throw every decade maybe. I’m about to throw a dart again.
I’m aware lots of things had to have happened for me to even be able to do this. Primarily that my parents without college degrees experienced a once in a lifetime economic growth story in a country that suddenly became rich in their lifetimes. And that I have a passport that lets me go anywhere i want.
I want to one of the NYC technical high schools and going back for reunions is very eye opening.
You have some of what were the brightest tech kids in NYC and most of them are doing ok but they are mostly middle class working very hard.
I feel like reading "Fooled by Randomness" was such an revelatory book for me. Realizing that probably most big success is actually just luck.
When he figured out that by including all the failed portfolio managers in the tables their performance as an industry was basically a coin flip.
Once you see that, it is hard to look at success the same way.
Adrianna Tan
Shafik Yaghmour