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A tool's popularity can become a self-reinforcing network effect rather than a sign of technical merit.

Drawn from what Yihui Xie said

Subjectsdeveloper toolsinnovationbehavioural science
What these subjects mean

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

Mental modelNetwork effects

What Yihui Xie actually said

  1. Yihui Xie Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages…
    The popularity feeds the tooling, and the tooling feeds the popularity. That's not a technical argument-it's a network effect.

    Where this was said

    ↗Converting testthat Tests to testityihui.org

    15 May 2026

    All 3 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd

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