Cobra Kai is a great example of how Luck (and privilege as a subset of that) work. Think of CK as a person. Works it& #39;s ass off to be great but doesn& #39;t get much notice on Youtube. 1/
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Then it goes to Netflix and suddenly it& #39;s a hit. Same show, same effort, same audience. CK didn& #39;t do anything different, but the conditions changed and made for greater success. It& #39;s no knock on CK to say luck is involved in that success. It& #39;s also wrong to say it& #39;s only luck. 2/

Same with Schitt& #39;s Creek and many other shows. Now imagine them all as people. Hard working, talented, have something to say; under one set of conditions that person may be hugely successful but only moderately so--or not at all--under others. 3/

It& #39;s rare in life that you get to run real world parallel experiments on this scale, but that& #39;s basically what the Netflix window is. A show that might be perceived as a failure can be proven under altered conditions to have been a hit. So what do "we know" about success then? 4/

And when you apply this notion to people the role luck plays in careers becomes very stark. Unfortunately we tend to speak of it as a binary. All luck or all effort. But Cobra Kai/Schitt& #39;s Creek, etc. make the point. They had to be great AND needed the conditions. 5/

Maybe this is beyond obvious to everyone but it doesn& #39;t seem so by the way it gets talked about on here. I& #39;m fairly obsessed with the roll of Luck as this thread also shows. So I& #39;m sure it won& #39;t be the last time I bring it up. /end https://twitter.com/matthewfederman/status/863835242825527296?s=20">https://twitter.com/matthewfe...