Randomness

How does he back that up?

He starts by making a key distinction between randomness and luck.

Randomness is the raw stuff, like a meteor landing on your house.

You can't control that.

But luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Well, that's what I was going to say.

Random draw.

If it rains out, you line it up by points.

No, no, no.

stuff.

Yeah.

Random, random unique

items.

Or both.

is something people deal with very differently.

And there are a lot of bad ways to deal with randomness.

Yeah,

right? Randomness causes order.

Because what caused that big cumshot of random? Well, that's random.

But all of the order that you see is just a friggin' illusion at that point.

I have to read this book," because I was just about finishing up a, a manuscript for my next book called Contingency.

Um, let's see, what's the subtitle? Uh, Ch- Chance, Randomness, and Luck and How Lives and History Turn Out.

Oh, well, I'm glad I got this one out first.

And I thought, "Oh." Oh, my God, this guy beat me to it.

Right.

And, Except here's a thing about randomness.

Randomness has weird patterns.

A lot of times you could roll a six and then another six and then another six, right? You can roll, you have to roll a lot in order for randomness to truly look random.

A lot of times randomness looks like it has patterns.