Did you mean top ten rather than “top tenth percentile”?
Being the best 10% at something among all people on the Internet probably takes on average the same amount of talent & practice as among those in your tribe. Being the absolute top 10 is way harder as you said.
Unless you were talking about being the top 10% among aficionados who have the most exposure in the relevant Internet community.
You know, I meant the top tenth percentile, but you have a point. It's easy on the internet to see how many people are performing better than you, and not just how many people are worse than you.
I guess I was thinking in terms of being in the top tenth percentile of people showing off in that area. Someone else in the thread put it in terms of being in the top tenth percentile of piano players in r/piano.
But yeah, being in the absolute top ten probably is closer to capturing what our monkey brains are expecting.
The internet isn't interested in directing you to the top 10% of anything, in the event you're in the market. That's too many people, nearly all of the time.
It is, however, very interested in directing you to literally the top ten (whatever thing) to save you the trouble of messing around with inferior, market-failing solutions.
So you do have to be literally the top ten in the world (or on the internet). Because if you aren't, someone else is prepared to be (if only for a brief shining moment?)
Being the best 10% at something among all people on the Internet probably takes on average the same amount of talent & practice as among those in your tribe. Being the absolute top 10 is way harder as you said.
Unless you were talking about being the top 10% among aficionados who have the most exposure in the relevant Internet community.