Comment by deathtales on Making yourself small · 2018-03-09T15:34:04.104Z · LW · GW

There's one of French author's La Fontaine's fables that is named "the frog that wanted to make itself bigger than the bull". I feel like it is a good complement to this post, if only because it's a metaphor of low status making itself big.

Comment by deathtales on Beta-Beta Testing: Frontpage Rework [Update - further tweak] · 2018-02-06T11:55:31.477Z · LW · GW

well that's what's left

Comment by deathtales on [deleted post] 2018-02-01T17:10:58.908Z

Well, now I have a term for it. thanks!

Is there any further steps once you identify an innoculated idea to overcome that ?