I often skip over the role of luck in my writing.
Not because I think that luck doesn't exist, or that it doesn't have an outsized impact in life.
It's just that when you write about pragmatic, useful, proven ideas, 'waiting to be lucky' doesn't read as well.
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It's a problem that's built into writing, I think. Imagine if you read:
"Do X, X is useful and it helps you in your career."
"Or you could get lucky."
"There's also Y, Y is useful and it helps with your career."
"Or you could get lucky."
That would get tiring very quickly.
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Do you feel this made many circles of writing too deterministic to be realistic? I feel most tweets can be especially bad at this.
In my writing hasn’t touched to much on these but I’ll bump into it eventually.
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Yeah I don't yet have a good way of thinking about this. I do feel it's ok to think deterministically. It can be more useful in certain situations.
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