The world is combinatorially weird and fractally interesting. And therefore, omnivorous curiosity is the only proper response. ... let’s optimize instead for the interesting, the strange, and the weird. Ideas and topics that ignite our curiosity are worthy of our attention, because they might lead to advances and insights that we can’t anticipate.

“Be Your Unapologetically Weird Self” “I gave a commencement speech in Minnesota few years ago [at the Carlson School of Management]. The core of it was to be your unapologetically weird self. I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days.” An excerpt from that speech: “Weirdness is why we adore our friends. . . .

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Weirdness is eroticism’s essence. To be weird is to be creative, taboo, present, complex, intimate, fully alive, expanding in places of contraction, in a state of being created, novel, individuating, vital, authentic, subversive, unique, unbridled, magnetic and therefore repelling. Iconic. The people you most admire are likely those who stayed... See more