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> Sometimes an idea has a time. Isn't it more like "nearly always"? It's pretty hard to find examples of things that haven't been tried multiple times before
by ska 7y ago
> Sometimes an idea has a time.
Isn't it more like "nearly always"? It's pretty hard to find examples of things that haven't been tried multiple times before in some variant. You can argue if it was timing or execution that worked "this time" of course, but almost nothing happens in isolation.
- reggieband 7y ago> Isn't it more like "nearly always"? Maybe? Hard to see past survivorship bias. My intuition says some ideas will never see their time. Hard to quantify how often that is the case as a percentage of all ideas.