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Vaniver comments on Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush? - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 July 2014 10:08AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 20 July 2014 11:47:14PM 2 points [-]

You make your own luck as the saying goes.

This brings to mind Ed Schieffelin, who struck silver in Arizona and correctly predicted there would be gold in Alaska (but didn't find enough to overcome the bitter cold, and so left).