Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Edge

It is never worth a first class man's time to express a majority opinion. By definition, there are plenty of others to do that --- G.H.Hardy


The more and more I think about having an edge, the more I realized you have to know something that the rest of the world does not know. The rest of the world here is defined as someone not you. A better position is to know something that the rest of the world knows to be true (and you know it is false). This is a good situation for you to go and place a bet on this while staking all your life's earnings on it. Thats a surefire way to make progress assuming you are convicted on your belief about such things.

Note to Self: Whenever I hire new guys, I will ask them this question: what do you know about x that the rest of the world does not know? (where x can be anything that the candidate chooses)

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