Back to episode — Episode 2710 CWSA 01/04/25
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happened to me today. Well, the news is all fun and interesting, so I'm going to zip through it and delight you. Number one, oh, first of all, Owen is going to do a Spaces, which he's been doing on Saturdays. So you could look for that. I don't know if it will become a long-term tradition, but at least for today Owen Gregorian will be doing a Spaces after this show where you can talk about what w…
← Previous segment →be that, but it's probably Venus because that's the brightest one that would be in that part of the sky.
And so I said to it, because it chats with you, you don't have to touch another button, you can just keep the conversation going. So I said to it, are you saying that Venus is the shiny one? And does that mean that the other planets would be experiencing Venus envy? And it laughed at my joke and complimented me. It actually reacted to the joke positively.
Now that just freaked me out because if you're a person who likes to get credit for telling jokes, which is literally my profession, I worry that I would get hooked on that. You know, just having AI tell me I did a good joke. Like, yeah, yeah, artificial intelligence right there. If you think it's funny, it must be funny. But then I remembered that AI can only do dad jokes and that that was basically just a PG-13 dad joke. Okay, more work to go.
Anyway, there's a study written about in which it says success could come down to luck more than merit according to research. Research? Was there a faster way to find out if luck is a component of success? What if they didn't want to spend the time and the money on a whole research project? Is there any other way? Oh yeah, they could have asked Scott. Hey Scott, we're thinking of spending a bunch of time and money to find out if luck influences success. And I'd be like, hmm, yeah it does. It does.
But I would add the following, which I think they didn't discover: that you can make more luck for yourself. You can make more luck for yourself. How do you do that? Well, get out of your chair. If you're just sitting at home in a chair, you're not going to have much luck. But ma
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ybe if you go meet some people, apply for some jobs that are above your level, try to build something in your garage just to see if it works, take a few classes to build your talent stack, move to a place where there's more opportunity, get involved with an industry that's growing quickly instead of shrinking. Yeah, you can change your luck. You can absolutely change your luck. Now, not in any mo…
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