A concept i'd like a good name for is how ahead of conventional attitudes you are on a particular subject. It's sort of like the time dimension of edge or alpha. On a given subject, you might be months or years ahead of the market...

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E.g. a few months ago, being aware of langchain seemed like some kind of alpha. But by now it's no longer narrowly known that the project is promising. So thats a case where my mental-drift (ugh thats terrible) from the mainstream was ~3 months.

It's your Johari redshift.

Bigger redshift means you're accelerating away faster from culture's current consensus.

Optimizing for snappy: Sightyears?

"Yeah, he was about 2 sightyears ahead on self-driving cars not being workable..."

Already coined and minted: it’s called streets ahead and if you don’t know that then you’re streets behind.

Cultural firmware version or Intellectual OS version