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I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know...

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I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, fo...

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I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experi...

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Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rat...

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet...

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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bl...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even be...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms