Founder argues polymath strategy is negative EV in today's risk-punishing system
felpix_ · x · 2026-09-25
Responding to a thread on how 20th-century biographies show far more freedom to explore, felpix argues that trying to be a polymath is now a clearly negative-EV strategy: modern systems that shape thinkers and founders heavily punish variance and time cost, and he can't name a dropout-founder IPO from the last decade.
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