Your economic fate is determined less by your individual attributes than by your position in the network. You are not a player on a level field. You are a node in a web, and the structure of that web matters more than anything you do within it. Your economic position is determined less by your talent and more by your network position. In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard sophomore with programming skills. Thousands could code better. But he was at Harvard, surrounded by the kids who would run the world. When he needed funding, Peter Thiel was two connections away. When he needed to scale, Silicon Valley was a zip code away. -- [[The Last Economy]]