There’s a difference between succeeding too often and succeeding despite not testing his ideas. The problem isn’t having too many failed ideas, the problem is that testing is how one rules out a failed idea, so he seems unreasonably lucky in the sense that his refusal to test has unreasonably few consequences.
There’s a difference between succeeding too often and succeeding despite not testing his ideas. The problem isn’t having too many failed ideas, the problem is that testing is how one rules out a failed idea, so he seems unreasonably lucky in the sense that his refusal to test has unreasonably few consequences.