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Did You Win or Did They Lose?
How do upstarts win? Why do incumbents lose? Upstarts can only win if incumbents let themselves lose.
The Track-Record Fallacy
How do we know when someone is skillful at competing? The thing is, it’s hard to tell the difference between luck and skill…
Death by Shark
Your odds of dying as the result of an unprovoked shark attack are roughly 1 in 300,000,000 in the USA. The odds are more than 20 times higher in Australia. Therefore, if you don’t want to be killed by a shark, you should flee Australia immediately for the USA. It’s safer here, except maybe for the gun thing.