You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
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You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong explains how many real-world systems (from wealth and success to natural disasters) follow power laws and self-organized criticality, not averages, urging us to rethink risk, strategy, and what drives extreme outcomes.
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Whenever you find a power law, it indicates that you're dealing with a system that has no intrinsic scale, and that is a signature of a system in a critical state, which turns out to have huge consequences.
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