Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN uses it as the favorite antidote to survivorship-bias success stories, arguing that trying many cheap things raises your odds.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

XOXO Festival

Topic

luck and side projects

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This falls under the category of "how I won the lottery" vs. "how to buy tickets". The former isn't useful, the latter is. You can see an excellent talk about the difference here: [VIDEO]

• This reminds me of one of my favorite talks of all time[1]. Applied to careers, I take the talk as implying that trying things is the secret. After a certain level of experience in your career, you'll know whether you like it. Branching off of …

• I'm surprised I don't see a reference yet to Darius Kazemi's iconic 2014[1] talk, which is basically riffing on this joke for 10 minutes: [VIDEO] A key takeaway I've kept with me this whole time is the idea of there being two kinds of creative …