The idea of 'luck surface area' is that by making an effort or putting something out there can increase your odds of having a chance encounter with a positive benefit to yourself.
Jason is giving an example about how a blog post he wrote ended up leading to him making a connection with a high-powered financial trader. It is pretty cool to think that you can write 500 words, hit the front page of HN, and suddenly have the attention of someone whom you could never get an audience with normally.
"One of benefits of publishing something on the web is that if it's the right kind of post and if it catches some wind, it can greatly increase your luck surface area."
Nice opening sentence, but the article doesn't really hook you, as I got three paragraphs in, and didn't understand where this 'luck surface area' was going. I got the sense it was just some naval-gazing discussion of getting blog posts to appear on Hacker News, so I just stopped reading.
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Am I missing something or was the linked post basically about someone of fame adding the author to its G+ circle? Very interesting.
The idea of 'luck surface area' is that by making an effort or putting something out there can increase your odds of having a chance encounter with a positive benefit to yourself.
Jason is giving an example about how a blog post he wrote ended up leading to him making a connection with a high-powered financial trader. It is pretty cool to think that you can write 500 words, hit the front page of HN, and suddenly have the attention of someone whom you could never get an audience with normally.
"One of benefits of publishing something on the web is that if it's the right kind of post and if it catches some wind, it can greatly increase your luck surface area."
Nice opening sentence, but the article doesn't really hook you, as I got three paragraphs in, and didn't understand where this 'luck surface area' was going. I got the sense it was just some naval-gazing discussion of getting blog posts to appear on Hacker News, so I just stopped reading.
The article is short on substance, but I really like the concept of the luck surface area. The author does appear to be the coiner of the term (top hit on Google: http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...).
I read it twice because I thought I missed something. Nope.