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Volume, Portfolio Theory, and Annie's Worst Decision That Worked Out
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Mark raises Alex Hormozi's concept that volume negates luck; Annie corrects it to 'volume reduces luck's influence,' because nothing fully negates luck — you can't get 50% heads on one coin flip. The principle holds across ventures, investments, and dates: the more volume you create, the more outcomes are determined by skill rather than variance. She then tells the poker hand story: she made a technically flawed bluff against a recreational player she misread as an expert, got lucky with an 8% jack on the river, and won a hand she probably shouldn't have. Eric Seidel laughed at her. The lesson: don't dwell on good luck either — figure out where the decision logic broke down. She then turns the lens on her own life, admitting that her most consequential choices — going to graduate school, leaving without finishing her PhD, pivoting to poker — were barely decisions at all. She just drifted. The deliberate choices she made later, as she consciously balanced poker against speaking, were much better. Chris Moneymaker, she concludes, was her earth luck.
