It's a little bit analogous to dropping a stone into a pond, and watching a ripple and then sometimes a second ripple go out from the center.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Constant dropping wears away a stone. -mid 13th; earlier in Greek

The early Journal was a bit analogous to Lewis and Clark going west, describing everything they saw. I don't know what kind of peer review existed then, but most people working in the field probably had never seen anyone with some of the problems described in the Journal. In fact, they may not have known some of these behaviors existed at all.

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.