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This is a little over-simplified. But I find the core question fascinating - why do our society's supposed innovation systems often fail to create the most valuable innovations, which instead come from the fringe?pic.twitter.com/OTYgdAfhGq
Status-y places resist weirdos. Weirdos make stuff happen. Institutions where stuff happens seem to generally have nooks for weirdos, intentionally or unintentionally, or the resources to provide nice weirdo habitats for the few weirdos who stumbled onto status
Weirdness only starts to be valuable when someone is brilliant. Unless someone is brilliant, being a weirdo is a net negative in expectation.
Which is why status-y places resist weirdos: most of them are just weird, and normies can't pick out the brilliant ones until they've seen their TED talks
I want to find one of these nice weirdo habitats for me to roam & graze freely
Status implies hierarchy, weirdos exit
Depends on what you mean with hierarchy. Take the Linux kernel, headed by weirdo in chief Linus. There is status in that world: who can commit to where, who can approve what, who owns what codebase. And weirdos don't leave.
Yes. Satus-y places put a premium on Signaling and there's a lot of Conformity bias. Look at how hard it was for the scientist who revealed Carbs Bad, Fat is OK. He was ridiculed for decades. But he was right.
It's also a case of the classic "S" curve of innovation. The payoff is not immediate. If you are established, you logically go with what gives you a payoff. The irony is that colleges SHOULD be places where you can play the Long Game.pic.twitter.com/8vYOunjUTK
How do u explain Silicon Valley? Filled with by the common standard with “weirdos” and SV has lots of status.
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