Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap)
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I'm the creator of the 1000 skeptics theorem:
You take infinite skeptics, give them all typewriters, poof! All the great works debunked.
Athletics is maybe a good example. A bunch of caveats aside, most products being marketed to the broadest markets will more than suffice, and expensive alternatives have only marginal actual utility for a miniscule subset of those markets. There have been studies showing, for example, that the actual gains for use of super running shoes are very small in absolute terms, and generally only apply to elite runners; typical runners, even good but not elite runners, may not see any gains, and may even lose time from them. What gains they might have are not going to make a difference to their times in the grand scheme of things. I think similar arguments could be made for a lot of cycling products etc.
Maybe they're different issues but sometimes I feel like Sturgeon's Law applies well, and sometimes the opposite is true.
This is the reason why movies or music seemed better in other times, because X was close to 0 then and now it's 9.
Anyway, I'm back to using Zim Wiki event though it doesn't support markdown because, at least for my brain and usecase (which is being able to find business logic and workarounds to problems when I need it), it seems to be the only one that's not complete crap.
Elisp authors have written package extensions (aka "plug-ins") for Org-mode that provide even more powerful and specialized note-taking. Among the most popular today are org-roam (built on the zettlekasten method) and denote.el.
Also, at least for my use case which is to find random notes I took about stuff 2 years before and that's hidden God knows wheres, I find the way Zim does it to be superior because it allows fuzzy searching on a note basis.
For example: you can't remember how to kill and recreate a new default-vm to fix docker-machine, you search "default vm", and it will find all the files that have both "default" and "vm" in them, even if they're not on the same line.
The way Zim implements that is it creates a file for your note, then creates a folder that contains all the images you put in that note and any subnote.
You could technically do the same in Obsidian, but I don't want to micromanage the file/folder structure.
And if your taste just sit between the 83.9 and 97.5 number. It turns out to be just about 90%.
Take for example elo ranking in video games
Top10% or top5% may sound good
But the gap between top10% and top1% (let alone top 0.1%) is so huge that you could say that those ppl barely understand this game
Same when top 1% is matched against 0.1%
Based on this logic, do you think the law should be that 99.9% of everything is crap?
The top ten percent is not actual feces. It's just varying degrees of mediocre.
A top 1% ranked Dota player is about Divine 5, the only higher bracket being Immortal and its associated ranking individual. I think you're really stretching the idiom if you're implying Divine 5 players (most of whom have 3000+ hours) "barely understand this game." Obviously a team of immortals shouldn't ever lose to a team of divines, but I don't think it would have the appearance of a competition of total newbies vs seasoned pros.