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by klibertp 2813 days ago
> "I'll see something that you haven't noticed in years!"

There's this saying in my country, roughly translated to "Guest for a second, sees a mile far" (sorry... it even rhymes and everything in Polish...)

Being immersed in something for a long time has a good chance of limiting your perspective to that thing only. While it's true that perhaps 90% of newcomers and their ideas simply miss the intricacies of the current process and would be disastrous if implemented, the remaining 10% is a genuine innovation which would never come from the inside.

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I've always loved this idea, and have found it to be very true in all aspects - always just known it as "tunnel vision".