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I’ve been good at getting lucky for a long time, which mostly consists of quitting things, changing streams etc at roughly the right time periodically. But it’s mostly due to a big stroke of luck I had nothing to do with, being born at the right time (more than the right place)
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The 90s were a rising tide of luck available to anyone who was smart enough to value luck more than smarts. That means born ~1965 - 75 or so. The world felt like a very lucky place, charged with serendipity.
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Now it feels like bahramdipity: serendipity being aggressively squashed by forces that fear ambiguity and uncertainty but love and fetishize strength and power. If it persists long enough, hope gets squashed and you get zemblanity. Snowballing bad luck for everyone.
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