Controlling The Variables
summary
Claims that luck is controllable by finding and controlling the variables and gives concrete tactics: hustling to buy a sold-out Rolling Stones ticket (which led to a surprise Bruce Springsteen guest), building a GoPro vlog series for a local football club that hits 100,000 views and earns national press, publishing a practical book on Varnish, and parlaying persistent outreach into 196 presentations across conferences using Twitter, meetups and low‑threshold human connections.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:36CONTROLLING THE VARIABLES
- 1:10LUCK
- 7:20FINLAND
- 19:48BELIEVE
- 32:29HARD WORK
- 35:13I KNOW MY FLAWS
- 36:44EVANGELIST
- 40:07MICHELANGELO VAN DAM
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