Science · by Mara Fischer · 2026-09-29

A surprisingly useful lesson from the train station after a tiny failure

> Tiny progress is still progress.

That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where research stopped feeling new.

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I appreciate the honest middle stage, not just the polished ending. My friend tried it in São Paulo and had the opposite result.

Good clarification — I read it differently at first.

Thanks, that actually helped.

I am curious what changed your mind.

Respectfully, I see it the other way.

@au_sparrow69 I am stealing that phrase.

@au_sparrow69 I was going to disagree, but your second sentence got me.