Why Nerds are Unpopular
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Why Nerds are Unpopular
why are smart kids so consistently unpopular? The answer, I think, is that they don’t really want to be popular.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
This is why we have the saying that “the people that were cool in high school never end up all that cool later in life.” The cool kids at that age were just really good at imitating, which was the currency of coolness then. Since everyone was floating in a sea of imitation, no one appreciated individuality. The opposite in fact: they punished it. T... See more
