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The feeling that you're a rounding error in someone else's spreadsheet.

means The state of being so small, unimportant, or inconsequential that you barely register as worth noticing.

from Built from the Latin prefix in- ('not') plus significant, itself from signum ('sign' or 'mark') and facere ('to make'). Something significant literally 'makes a sign' — it signals, it matters, it leaves a mark. Insignificance is the negation of all that: the thing that makes no mark, signals nothing, and vanishes from notice the moment it appears.

astronomy check
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ego antidote
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philosophical flex
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paradox
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