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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 15:48:28 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   Nerds can be extremely myopic, both figuratively and literally. While nerds argued for the technical merits of Betamax and Video 2000, the world went right ahead and adopted VHS. There are thousands of similar stores, yet the nerds never learn. They think their opinion matters, but it doesn't. They think that a product that's useless to them is useless to everyone, because they lack the imagination to imagine what it's like to be someone else.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 15:55:46 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      Nerds think they're so smart, but look at how long it took Linus Torvalds to understand that maybe, just maybe his abrasive comments might actually hurt someone. Decades of lacking introspection. If he can make that mistake, so can other nerds, and they do, all the time. Nerds aren't some kind of enlightened cult. They're just people who spend a lot of energy on one thing, usually to the detriment of everything else, including people skills.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 16:11:49 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         I say all of this as someone who is himself a nerd. It's just that I've noticed that, unlike most nerds, I'm a polymath. I have deep knowledge in more areas than most nerds I've met, and it goes across the arts, humanities and sciences, and also into applied psychology. More importantly, they aren't separate spheres of knowledge for me. Everything is connected to everything, so I often make mental leaps that may come across as a bit crazy to others.