To your point on narrative fallacy of causal attribution, it reminded me of this essay: paulgraham.com/disc.html
“ Because biographies of famous scientists tend to edit out their mistakes, we underestimate the degree of risk they were willing to take. And because anything a famous scientist did that wasn't a mistake has probably now become the conventional wisdom, those choices don't seem risky either.”
To your point on narrative fallacy of causal attribution, it reminded me of this essay:
paulgraham.com/disc.html
“ Because biographies of famous scientists tend to edit out their mistakes, we underestimate the degree of risk they were willing to take. And because anything a famous scientist did that wasn't a mistake has probably now become the conventional wisdom, those choices don't seem risky either.”
great quote!