> The central point is that nerds don't become popular because they don't put the time in to be popular. They'd rather spend it on other things.
I read the article. I disagree with his argument. Graham even admits his fallacy near the middle of the article, when he admits to desperately wanting to be popular. The "wanting to be smart more" deal is nothing more than pride, I'd say.
> In fact you're agreeing by saying that it comes down to social awareness, which is essentially putting in the time to be popular.
Nope. You don't get more social awareness from something like "putting in the time to be popular". It might work for something like programming but this is nothing like that. You get it from having a healthy, normal-ish mind and from constantly surrounding yourself with people who have social awareness. Some people simply don't have access to that.
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> The central point is that nerds don't become popular because they don't put the time in to be popular. They'd rather spend it on other things.
I read the article. I disagree with his argument. Graham even admits his fallacy near the middle of the article, when he admits to desperately wanting to be popular. The "wanting to be smart more" deal is nothing more than pride, I'd say.
> In fact you're agreeing by saying that it comes down to social awareness, which is essentially putting in the time to be popular.
Nope. You don't get more social awareness from something like "putting in the time to be popular". It might work for something like programming but this is nothing like that. You get it from having a healthy, normal-ish mind and from constantly surrounding yourself with people who have social awareness. Some people simply don't have access to that.