i don’t think it’s so much that people become “hot” as people tend to work on the same thing for a while. So of course your biggest hits will be in close proxim

i don’t think it’s so much that people become “hot” as people tend to work on the same thing for a while. So of course your biggest hits will be in close proximity to your next biggest hits — they are variations on the same theme! Hot topics, not hot people. I would be quite surprised if patterns like Einstein’s annus mirabelus are actually the norm, with four largely unrelated breakthroughs in the same year.