The ’10x engineer’ claim traces to a dozen-person 1968 study that was actually comparing computer setups. Here’s what happened to the number since, and what really explains star performance.
‘Self-made man’ was coined in an 1832 speech about tariffs, not bootstraps. Here’s what research on inheritance, capital access, and business survival actually shows about who gets to try.
Venture-backed founder data shows prior failure barely moves your odds versus a first-timer. Prior success does, dramatically. Here’s why ‘fail fast’ isn’t the mechanism people think it is.
A 2018 study tested ‘follow your passion’ directly and found it backfires: believing passion must be found, not built, makes people quit faster the moment it gets hard.
