@nydwracu @themattsimpson @freeshreeda @sarahdoingthing One of the smartest people I know thought she was BSing her way through Stanford…
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@nydwracu @themattsimpson@freeshreeda@sarahdoingthing kept changing depts. at Stanford because each anointed her an epic star, felt phony…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@nydwracu @themattsimpson@freeshreeda@sarahdoingthing dropped out of MIT CS PhD program cuz everyone there told her she was so smart, and1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@nydwracu @themattsimpson@freeshreeda@sarahdoingthing she was sure she was faking it. last I heard, was down & out and on verge of suicide2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@nydwracu @themattsimpson@freeshreeda@sarahdoingthing I don’t have a point here, just interesting story, & wonder what happened to her.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@nydwracu She said everyone will assume you’re smart if, whenever any idea comes up, you say “that’s stupid.” So she just did that.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@nydwracu Everyone is intimidated, because maybe it actually is stupid and they are too stupid to see why.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@nydwracu But occasionally, in reality, someone will challenge you. And then you have to be able to say why it is stupid, or lose all status1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@nydwracu She was entirely capable of doing that, and proposing something else non-stupid as well… but lacked confidence in herself somehow.
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