Back in 2016, I did delivery work for a gig platform. Within two days I figured out the real move: be picky about which jobs you take. Here's what most people don't do—I'd chat with other couriers about their approach. Literally nobody was doing this.

Turns out you can't just grind blindly. Location, order size, time window, traffic patterns—these things matter. One conversation could shift how you route your day entirely. That's when it hit me: if economics was a real science with predictable actors, why weren't people already optimizing like this? Why was I one of the few asking questions?

That's when I learned economics is basically pseudoscience. People don't behave the way the textbooks say. Information asymmetry, behavioral quirks, the willingness to just accept defaults—that's where the actual edge is.