Notebook of ideas
Articles
Some questions stay with us after a book ends. The articles collected here grow out of them.
You worked hard. But was that all?
Effort, circumstances, and the comforting story of success.
How many people had to choose you?
Other people’s decisions also play a part in our achievements.
You were lucky with things that never happened.
The invisible luck in interruptions that never happened.
Your life began before your choices.
What was already part of our story before our first choice.
Your effort does not explain all your success.
Why what we feel from within cannot tell the whole story of an outcome.
Being lucky does not erase your merit.
Why acknowledging luck does not diminish what you did.
Why do some people succeed and others do not?
What success stories tend to leave out.
Your health also helped you get this far.
The quiet condition that allows plans and decisions to keep unfolding.
You did not build everything alone.
The world that already existed before any individual achievement.
Your success also depended on the era you were born in
The historical moment that also gives value to our abilities.