Always fond memories of Slackware—days of downloading release 2.0 images to a massive stack of floppies over dial-up @ 14.4K in 1994. Stuck with a mix of Slackware and Free/OpenBSD for over a decade.

Glad to see it continues to survive so many years later.

Analysis paralysis is arguably as dangerous as survivorship bias.

Of course winning the genetic lottery bestows tremendous advantage. And of course luck is a huge variable.

But the intersection of luck, preparation, and willingness is serendipity. And every successful entrepreneur has that in spades in the end, regardless of where they started.

Sure that sounds like another empty platitude, but the fact of the matter is there is no formula or one simple trick.

I fear that winning the genetic lottery is more than just a simple advantage. In the case of being born into a wealthy family, it turns the situation from "it's all up to you to succeed" into "all you have to do is not fuck up." Since tremendous luck, good or bad, is relatively rare the condition from generation to generation just doesn't change much - regardless of hard work - except in so much as society itself grows wealthier.