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I love how after I cofounded a math game company, there seems to be more and more math everywhere I look. "Blue car syndrome" at its finest! For me this articl

I love how after I cofounded a math game company, there seems to be more and more math everywhere I look. "Blue car syndrome" at its finest! For me this article especially rings true with self identity / confidence. Since four years ago I started learning how to program video games, I recognized that internally, "Well if I could totally change my career overnight, and open up a plethora of new possibilities, then I wonder how many additional choices I will now start to see over time?" I saw it as a graph of my life possibilities, with the first 25 years of my life bumping along in the 1-10 range, then a sudden inflection point to 100. Looking at this graph objectively, one can imagine a second inflection point that goes to 1000, etc.. maybe leading to an asymptote! But I digress.

ColinWright 12y ago
> "Blue car syndrome" There's a Name for That: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon[0], also known as the "Frequency Illusion."[1] [0] http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/ http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Frequency_illusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Frequ...
- judk 12y ago
  "Blue car syndrome" is also a name for that, and an older one than "B-M".
namenotrequired 12y ago
> Looking at this graph objectively, one can imagine a second inflection point that goes to 1000, etc.. maybe leading to an asymptote! It looks more like exponential growth to me! Or are you hoping to asymptotically approach death? :)