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# Some Thoughts on Remarkability
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/some-thoughts-on-remarkability/
- Published: 2024-11-25T05:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-25T05:03:39.000Z
- Description: you can be remarkable at different things to different numbers of people
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: deep-life

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> **you can be remarkable at different things to different numbers of people.**

to be remarkable, something must:

1. be worth discussing standalone, and not directly in reference to something else
2. be in a place where it can be remarked on by someone who isn't you (i.e. [earned media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned%5Fmedia?ref=bramadams.dev))

you can be **local-level** (*i.e. your physical community, like a church*) fit – only your partner and friends will know you are strong.

you can be a **country-level** (*i.e.* [*i'm big in japan*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%5Fin%5FJapan%5F%28phrase%29?ref=bramadams.dev)) essayist – your essays will broadly impact your culture but never reach global recognition.

a great example:

[1,000 True FansThis is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/icon/favicon.ico)The TechniumKevin Kelly![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/thumbnail/og_default_1200.png)](https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/?ref=bramadams.dev)

you can be a **global-level** (*i.e. the english language*) software architect – your programs/programming language/CS theory can affect every single computer world wide. people may not know your name, but they use your code every day.

a great example:

[Welcome to Python.orgThe official home of the Python Programming Language![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png)Python.org![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/thumbnail/opengraph-icon-200x200.png)](https://www.python.org/?ref=bramadams.dev)

some crossover exists as well:

- bramadams.dev *as a newsletter* is **local level**, since it is delivered in a 1:1 format
- bramadams.dev *as a website/platform* is **country level**, since anyone from across the globe can visit it and are within its boundaries. *i.e.* a twitch streamer is **local** (their local audience can be massive), *twitch itself* is **country/global** level

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