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The Mathematical Reason Most People Never "Make It"

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The uncomfortable truth about effort, outcome, and the math that connects them all

The last few years, a new December tradition has emerged: Spotify Wrapped. The largest music streaming service packages a year’s worth of your listening data into a fun, shareable format that conveniently ignores the fact that this is just a glimpse of how much personalized data these tech companies actually have on you. But that’s not what caught my attention this year. I started noticing something in everyone’s top 10 artists. The same names kept appearing: Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake, The Weeknd. Over and over again across different friend groups, different demographics, different…

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