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Necessary conditions for a movement includes 1) an idea which is fundamentally easy or makes a lot of sense 2) lots of people discovering that idea at the same time and exciting each other, 3) an idea that lends itself to the improvement of one's social-status/geek-cred, so they share it with others. It's very much unpredictable.

I'd liken this to winning the lottery. And that's why articles like this are discouraging, because you are trying to find the magic and you invest your time, listening to the very end, but you find that the magic isn't really there at all.



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