On: The story of Rogue

[jhbadger]

That's true of so many things, including science and programming. We can deal with the fact that some people are geniuses and just orders of magnitude better than us, but often it's people who are just slightly better than us in most things that end up doing the thing we want to do before us.

[zenogantner → jhbadger]

... and the compound interest of being consistently slightly better makes these people much better than others in the long run.