Studying top performers: outlier success rides on market inefficiency, luck, and enduring pain
jachiam0 · x · 2026-09-07
After long-term study of the highest-performing people and organizations, the author concludes that extreme outlier success is largely a product of vast inefficiencies elsewhere, enormous luck, and the ability to persist through unbearable suffering without going totally insane (though going a little insane seems selected for). Top performers mostly bet on things that are 'obvious' in some sense but simply not yet priced correctly by the market.
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