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Nerds are already high-status. Look who just hosted Saturday Night Live. The contrarian position is to be anti-nerd and pro-charm. Taleb on this: https://www.a
by hamburga 5y ago
Nerds are already high-status. Look who just hosted Saturday Night Live.
The contrarian position is to be anti-nerd and pro-charm. Taleb on this: https://www.azquotes.com/author/18869-Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb/tag/nerd https://www.azquotes.com/author/18869-Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb/...
> Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
- crocodiletears 5y agoIs there any broader context to this quote?
- hamburga 5y agoNope, it's from his book of aphorisms.
- crocodiletears 5y agoTook me a moment to realize that he has literally written a book of aphorisms, and that this wasn't a smarmy dismissal. Well worth the chuckle.
- hamburga 5y agoI'll take all the laughs I can get! No smarm intended.