All these stories about VR, then metverse/crypto, then ai, and now gambling. It seems like Zuckerberg is trying to recreate the early success he had in an emerging field but, at a fundamental level, does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
Sometimes I think America cannot be a good place to live until the myth of the “tech genius” is thoroughly broken.
does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
That’s every successful human. It’s a known bias. The classic study was letting people play a rigged game of Monopoly. One random player gets double money among other advantages and wins of course. Afterwards the winner will always tell that it’s because of their strategy or something like that, never they just got luckily.
Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.
The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn’t reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.
All these stories about VR, then metverse/crypto, then ai, and now gambling. It seems like Zuckerberg is trying to recreate the early success he had in an emerging field but, at a fundamental level, does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
Sometimes I think America cannot be a good place to live until the myth of the “tech genius” is thoroughly broken.
That’s every successful human. It’s a known bias. The classic study was letting people play a rigged game of Monopoly. One random player gets double money among other advantages and wins of course. Afterwards the winner will always tell that it’s because of their strategy or something like that, never they just got luckily.
Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.
The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn’t reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.
Don’t worry, a lot of that money is still around wrapped up in family trusts. Sure, they’ve given a decent chunk away to white wash their names but these weren’t good people.