Dark indigo cover for the essay What Is an Opportunity, with a warm amber glow falling through an open bracket at the right edge and the subtitle: a prerequisite does not cause, does not make possible, and does not happen.

What Is an Opportunity

An opportunity is ordinarily described as a window that opens, makes something possible, and closes. Derived from the foundation’s definition of a condition, the word turns out to name a prerequisite and then credit it with three things the definition denies — which is why two people can stand in front of the same opening and only one of them is standing in front of anything. … readWhat Is an Opportunity