How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
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#2"Kolbrenner says the movie is “going to be completely different—I don’t know if I should say that or not."
I really hope they don't fuck it up when they make the changes. Prufrock, if you're reading this, don't let them ruin it. Please, please, please watch out for your story. Don't let them make it completely different.
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#3The original post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...
Re: How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
#4The brief version is: luck.
The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time.
The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood.
So: luck.
Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
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#5The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
Luck can be increased with frequency. The more often you put yourself out there, the greater the chance the right people/time/moods will align.
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#6The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
Well, much of life is luck. But, instead of great idea dying in some coffee shop, they have an outlet where the right ideas can find the right people that can execute.
The key is that the Internet enables a giant magnifying glass on everyone. This could have died out, but now it has a chance to live.
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#7The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
Luck can be increased with frequency. The more often you put yourself out there, the greater the chance the right people/time/moods will align.
Absolutely; luck is in part a function of exposure. But only to an extent. Los Angeles is notoriously stuffed to the gills with attractive waiters trying to manufacture luck.
I look on things like talent as necessary but not sufficient causes of success.
For my fuller view: http://chester.id.au/2012/03/02/does-leadership-matter/
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#8The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
Well, much of life is luck. But, instead of great idea dying in some coffee shop, they have an outlet where the right ideas can find the right people that can execute. The key is that the Internet enables a giant magnifying glass on everyone. This could have died out, but now it has a chance to live.
I think the internet has made a quantitative, not qualitative change to the dynamics of luck.
There are still great ideas dying in coffee shops. They're just dying on reddit too.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, much of life is luck. But, instead of great idea dying in some coffee shop, they have an outlet where the right ideas can find the right people that can execute. The key is that the Internet enables a giant magnifying glass on everyone. This could have died out, but now it has a chance to live.
I think the internet has made a quantitative, not qualitative change to the dynamics of luck. There are still great ideas dying in coffee shops. They're just dying on reddit too.
The point is the size of the audience - there's usually more people in any given reddit forum than in your average coffee shop :)
And _that_ is caused by a qualitative change - physical proximity has become way less important.
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#10"Kolbrenner says the movie is “going to be completely different—I don’t know if I should say that or not." I really hope they don't fuck it up when they make the changes. Prufrock, if you're reading this, don't let them ruin it. Please, please, please watch out for your story. Don't let them make it completely different.
I think you know (and we all know) that that's impossible by now.