Nerds

Nerds: Who they are and why we need more of themDavid Anderegg, Ph.D.I wish I had read this book in high school. Would have explained things and made them easier to deal with. I suspect I have identified the thing that made me “different” but that is a post for a later date.“Illness, then as now, carries with it the notion of lack of culpability along with the potential for cure."pg. 107“If one of the stigmas of the dyed-in-the-wool nerd or geek is the inability to know who is interested ad who is not interested in one’s own peculiar passions…this inability should be content-neutral”pg. 145“So a simple answer to the problem of tech man and his cultural icon is that it is difficult to portray or show a romantic picture of what technology workers do….“Well he doesn’t jump around too much, but his thoughts do! Look at those numbers dance!""pg. 149-150