Eric Jorgenson's Writing - Eric Jorgenson

TLDR: We are pessimistic and terrified of change in the present, but glorify changes that happened in the past. Read on to see through the fear and falsehoods born of our widespread anxiety about change and how to be right when others are wrong.

Whoever is ahead tends to pull further ahead, because being ahead is an advantage.

The critical, practical thing to drill into your brain is this: winners get disproportionate rewards. Then they’re more likely to win again.

Network Scientists have a difficult-to-remember name for this: “Preferential Attachment.”