I spent hours researching a topic. Someone else made bold claims with zero evidence. They won.
That's when I felt it: the tight, hot sensation I know too well.
René Girard called it mimetic rivalry; we become "monstrous doubles" of the people we envy. The more I obsessed over why his post outperformed mine, the more I risked becoming exactly what I was criticizing.
Then I remembered the mountain I climbed last August, where no algorithm decided if my effort was worth amplifying.
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