I wanted to build on a riff in the excellent Invest Like The Best podcast: John Collison, Patrick Collison - A Business State of Mind
People talk about the interesting things, but reality has no interestingness bias.
Most real things are mundane.
People talk about interesting things because the surprising model-updating things are what makes sense to spend the very small number of conversation tokens on.
But this creates an illusion of the true distribution of interestingness.