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Naval Ravikant

04/01/25

@ Chris Williamson

In any power law distribution, the top outcome will yield more than the combined results of the others. This means that in a highly leveraged intellectual domain, outcomes are nonlinear.

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@ Chris Williamson

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04/01/25

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