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Is there a word for "I was researching an obscure topic and then a couple hours later a major publication writes about it?" I was just researching boutique cof
by cylinder 9y ago
Is there a word for "I was researching an obscure topic and then a couple hours later a major publication writes about it?"
I was just researching boutique coffee growing farms in tropical Australia and wondering if in the future people would pay double what they pay now for coffee. And then this shows up on hn.
- joshvm 9y agoIt's called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion.
- jschulenklopper 9y agoThat's funny... I accidentally stumbled upon the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon last week (reading the article at https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...) and now I notice it again! It's Baader-Meinhof applied to itself :-)