An article written by Christopher Mele at the New York Times, freakishly similar to a post I'd written but hadn't yet published. My first thought was that I'd accidentally tweeted a link to my draft or published my post by mistake. Meanwhile, I rushed to post what I'd been working on, figuring this would at least prove I'd been writing well before Mele's story appeared. Finally, idea fetishization blinds us to what's really important--actually doing something useful with the idea! I should have been pleased that I'd written something a publication like the New York Times also thought was important.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2016 16:54 UTC