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I expect you're being downvoted for your derogatory and inaccurate use of "nerds"-- I know several theater nerds who are phenomenal actors.
by Cushman 14y ago
I expect you're being downvoted for your derogatory and inaccurate use of "nerds"-- I know several theater nerds who are phenomenal actors.
- jarek 14y agoThanks. I meant nerds in the common meaning, derogatory or not. Let's try again and elaborate in more neutral terms: I'm willing to accept it's useful, but it's clearly not a survival skill or there would be a lot of dead people with weak social skills but otherwise reasonably successful white collar lives out there. Very very few cog-in-the-machine can't-talk-to-people tech people that otherwise lead reasonably comfortable middle class lives in our current society die because they don't know their own facial expressions, gestures, voice, or words.
- Cushman 14y agoIn that case, I'll readily admit I was using "survival" in the hyperbolic sense of "NYC survival skills" than the literal sense of "wilderness survival skills". I'll downgrade it to "crucially significant determiner of success" if that's easier to stomach :)
- jarek 14y agoAnd I'll again point out that most cog-in-the-machine can't-talk-to-people tech people are successful by the standards of majority of North Americans, let alone the world :)
- Cushman 14y agoI never said it was the sole determiner. If you can't talk to people but you can do tech, you can do all right for yourself; if you can talk to people and you can do tech, you can write your own check. People in tech need this most-- we're way too willing to write off the primary importance that other people have in our lives.
- jarek 14y agoThis is getting silly, but: what percentage of cases of success would you say should exhibit a crucially significant determiner of success?