New York geographically is a place that kind of increases your luck surface area. The internet just allows those connections to happen at an exponentially higher rate. Luck plays a big role in stuff and you can't ever actually predict how big that is. But yeah, I agree that you can put yourself in situations where luck is more likely to work in your favor.
Jack Raines is an online writer and LinkedIn provocateur, whose newsletter Young Money has already amassed 30,000 readers. Jack joins the show to discuss the importance of travel, the upsides of authenticity, risk, luck, and much, much more! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Jack’s origin story
- Optionality and opportunity costs
- Hostel hopping
- The healthy life
- Grindset and hustle culture
- LinkedIn pranks
- Slamming the door on opportunities
- Work culture and the Great Reshuffle
- The luck of being alive today
- Crypto skepticism
- Quantifying risk
- Jack’s three favourite places in the world
- The default path is not your destiny