Startups Are Not Lottery Tickets

If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it

• If you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it (luck).
• Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today.
  • Instead of pursuing mediocrity and calling it well-roundedness, a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it.

To a definite optimist, the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better

• Why should you expect your own business to succeed without a plan to make it happen?
• Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

LOK: 4. Management
RL: Zero to one
IDEAS: Startups