@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I want to one of the NYC technical high schools and going back for reunions is very eye opening. You have some of what were the brightest tech kids in NYC and most of them are doing ok but they are mostly middle class working very hard. I feel like reading "Fooled by Randomness" was such an revelatory book for me. Realizing that probably most big success is actually just luck. When he figured out that by including all the failed portfolio managers in the tables their performance as an industry was basically a coin flip. Once you see that, it is hard to look at success the same way.