“If you want to know where future fortunes will be made, don’t look at markets; look at rooms. Why? Wealth follows proximity. The closer you are to capital, information, and ambition, the higher your expected return. If compounding is the eighth wonder of the world, proximity is the ninth.”— Contrarian Thinking Newsletter That quote from Codie Sanchez’s Contrarian Thinking newsletter stopped me mid-scroll one evening—not because it was new information, but because it was tru