<![CDATA[Shoulders of Giants]]>Your Success is Not Your Fault <div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Shoulders of Giants by Prof G Media</p><p>Your success is not your fault</p><a data-post-link href="https://www.profgmedia.com/p/shoulders-of-giants">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3923/shoulders-of-giantsRSS for NodeSat, 01 Aug 2026 19:11:55 GMTSat, 01 Aug 2026 16:06:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Shoulders of Giants on Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:05:49 GMT]]>Oddly, and off topic, I didn’t know who he was yesterday but this is the second reference to him I’ve seen today.

He broke with Mamdani over the release of names and addresses of everyone subject to pied a terre taxes in NY (which includes him).

His line “He took what was a good source of revenue and turned it into a wanted poster”.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/27603https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/27603Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:05:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shoulders of Giants on Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:57:42 GMT]]>Sam Harris puts this more pithily. You didn’t choose your genes and you didn’t choose your environment- it’s luck all the way down.

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