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It's related to survivorship bias or whichever; successful writers have written for years already, but you / the potential writer only discover these when they'
by Cthulhu_ 1y ago
It's related to survivorship bias or whichever; successful writers have written for years already, but you / the potential writer only discover these when they're already established. Few people will actually have followed them as they progressed through the years.
Anyway, point is, you read a good post whose goodness was in part due to the thousand posts before it, then think "I need to be as good as this" and you'll fail. I'm sure there's a word for that too.
- giordanol 1y agoBamboo growth pattern - years of invisible growth underground, then it suddenly shoots up 90 feet. Easy to forget how long the roots were forming.