Seems to me things that "come out of nowhere" switch from one to another. So if you optimize for either, you get neither. I think that we lose a lot from a men

Seems to me things that "come out of nowhere" switch from one to another. So if you optimize for either, you get neither. I think that we lose a lot from a mentality that isn't adaptive, that prescribes in advance whether something is going to become popular or not. Because then something that is currently a niche gets killed off before it finds the mass market. I feel like whenever I find something new I like in the supermarket it disappears a short time later, presumably because of greedy optimization.