Improbable things

From Paul Kedrosky: “It’s a big planet and so a lot of weird things that shouldn’t happen, happen all the time. As I like to remind people, on a planet with 7.5 billion people, a billion-to-one longshot potentially happens seven-ish times a day. That can take a lot of the fun out of calling things “billion-to-one longshots”, admittedly, but that’s the way it goes on a big planet.“ | learn more