If something is worth doing for free, it’s worth doing nerd-out obsessively-compulsively for free. “Free” implies the purest kind of surplus leisure energy. It should be unshackled from ordinary ROI thinking. You’ve *already* accepted zero returns. So why hold back?
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That’s why we have sayings like “the devil hides in the details” or “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.” Religious fear of ocd-nerd energy that trashes ROI formulas, the concept of money, and the supposed value of striving for recognition in thymos contests.
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The first documented appearance of the word nerd is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950), in which the narrator claims that he would collect "a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too" for his imaginary zoo. The slang meaning dates to 1951.
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Dammit stop ruining my great joke
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They feared it because they knew it was more powerful than “thymos” and will-to-power
That’s why they tried to ban it. Nerdos was viewed as devil energy in the Middle Ages.