2: Getting Lucky

Subu and Vikram discuss the role of luck in science, career and their own lives

Links

• Episode Transcript
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• The accidental discovery of viagra
• The Unfair Advantage
• Bounce, Matthew Syed

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:34 Wasabi and Babies
03:33 Did Feynman get Lucky?
08:30 Vikram's own aha moment
11:37 Purposeful Practice and Unfair Advantage
15:10 Getting lucky with Viagra
17:26 Good Friends and Lucky Failures
27:30 Cringey Metaphors
30:00 How Vikram and Subu met
33:36 Luck in Career
38:39 Outro

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:34 Wasabi and Babies
• 3:33 Did Feynman get Lucky?
• 8:30 Vikram's own aha moment
• 11:37 Purposeful Practice and Unfair Advantage
• 15:10 Getting lucky with Viagra
• 17:26 Good Friends and Lucky Failures
• 27:30 Cringey Metaphors
• 30:00 How Vikram and Subu met
• 33:36 Luck in Career
• 38:39 Outro