Might just be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade I do find PG's idea of "aggre

Might just be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade I do find PG's idea of "aggressively conventional-minded" people to be a useful concept: https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html