On Luck, Love, and a Viral Time-Travel Romance With Bigolas Dickolas

This newsletter argues that luck depends less on effort alone than on whether a story gives people things to talk about, with the author pointing to the sudden rise of the novel "This Is How You Lose The Time War" to #3 on Amazon's best-seller list after Bigolas Dickolas promoted it. The author says perseverance matters in part because a body of work becomes a story that makes later works newsworthy, while the debut and the 21st novel draw more attention than the third. The newsletter also covers a school-zone traffic light that stays green for drivers within the speed limit, a suggestion that such signals could extend to intersections, and brief notes on generative art, the Hollywood writers' strike, and NFT royalties.