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How to win the lottery or have an IPO-ing startup

Yes, its all the same, and no, poker is not a good metaphor. Here is why:How do you win when your chances are one in a million? Here are the best approaches to follow and hope for the best: Strategy 1: play the same numbers over and over again This is the all time favorite. Of course, it’s a golden shiny example of gambler’s fallacy: it seems to them that each time you loose, the odds to win increase — because the universe balances itself. The universe does balance itself, no doubt, but no balance in your pocket will appear.

Andrei Draganescu7 min read

Letter to the struggling creator of anything

Dear creative human,You are always busy. New ideas, new work, new output every hour after hour. At the end of the day it’s all meant to push you, bit by bit, closer to the place you want to be in. May the place be called “The top of the (collective) mind”. When you do get in the “top of mind”, with a badge of “known” or “established”, you receive the magic rainbow of: authority, creative freedom, influence and respect — personally handed to you by Roy G.

Andrei Draganescu7 min read

The art of balanced teams

With a no star team you get micromanagement hell, the one star in a team will become a nanny with a bell, but make an all star team and the project will look like an Escher dream.In a respectable michelin starred Japanese restaurant serving sushi you need about eight years before you are allowed to cook the egg sushi. During this time you’ll find yourself cleaning tools, washing plates, cutting and chopping and so on. Very boring, but when you start you have the energy and the passion of the young so you attend these little chores with your eyes on the big shots who lay out the fish, rice and seaweed.

Andrei Draganescu3 min read

If you wouldn’t do your job for free, its ok to carry on doing it.

And have a peaceful mind and a happy life too

Andrei Draganescu2 min read

Write on Medium, using the iPad now!

I was ready to give it up ☺ but then — wham!

Andrei Draganescu2 min read