Reading something interesting where I'm gradually moving from "Ahh this person and I read a lot of the same people; the influence is obvious" to "Oh wow, not actually the causality; they specifically read me."
(I will not be more specific because writers sometimes get persnickety about this sort of thing, particularly entirely uninvolved writers, and I don't want to cause anyone grief for totally innocent snowcloning of a bon mot from a HN comment.)
(Interestingly the culture of professional writing includes microcultures where repeating another's words without acknowledging them is a sin which cries out to heaven for vengeance and ones more akin to music where effectively everything is a riff, remix, mashup, etc.)
(It's *really* fun when you get people from different microcultures working at the same org with the same title because they're often *incredibly* sensitive to cultural differences for certain socially-acknowledged axes of difference but Tom is just a (%)#%0)(##%(#)% plagiarist.)
(Slight digression: people broadly underrate the influence one's first few years in the career exerts on worldview about everything. There's a reason why I tell colleagues working with me for the first time that I used to be a Japanese salaryman. This is never, ever for giggles.)
(I get "Come off it, you weren't *really* a Japanese salaryman, owing to minimally the obvious issue." from Americans surprisingly often, and laugh, like any Japanese salaryman would if an American suggested they were not a salaryman. Like the company needed their vote to do it.)
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