Power Law Thinking: Apply Portfolio Theory to Your Whole Life

In venture capital, the power law is gospel: one deal returns more than the rest of the fund combined. Sheel extends this to life decisions — your career, relationships, habits, and side projects all follow the same distribution. Most things you try won't matter much. A few will matter enormously. The implication: you should be running more experiments, not fewer, because finding that one outsized winner is a numbers game.