1. The Sure Thing (gladwell.com)
“In 1969, Ted Turner wanted to buy a television station. He was thirty years old. He had inherited a billboard business from his father, which was doing well. But he was bored, and television seemed exciting. “He knew absolutely nothing about it,” one of Turner’s many biographers, Christian Williams, writes in “Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way” (1981). ‘It would be fun to risk everything he had built, scare the hell out of everybody, and get back in the front seat of the roller coaster.’”