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Does anyone know what the phenomena is called where you think about something/hear about something and then suddenly you stumble across multiple instances of it
by altgans 5y ago
Does anyone know what the phenomena is called where you think about something/hear about something and then suddenly you stumble across multiple instances of it in the wild?
Just yesterday I began configuring the textwidth/wrap porperty in my Neovim. I went to bed thinking that maybe a hard-capped width of X*2 cahracters would be better, so I can fit more text "into a square" -- which basically means that I focus on a point in the middle of the text and see X characters left, right, up and down.
Now today, the first article I read is about the same exact problem :)
- rspk 5y agoIt's called Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon
- lekevicius 5y agoNow you will encounter people mentioning this phenomenon all over the place.