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
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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
Brilliant weirdos find other brilliant weirdos easily, because they're not trying to figure out who's "TED-level," they're just trying to hang out with people who aren't boring
Hmm, that's a little too generous for my taste. A lot more people consider themselves brilliant than is warranted.
She didn't say THEY consider themselves (or others) brilliant. Instead, an even deeper gut-level discrimination: INTERESTING. The value of INTERESTING as a compass is very underappreciated.
Clarification: BRILLIANT is a red herring. I think it's 20% smarts and 80% seeing outside the box (or at least seeing there IS a box). And I think she meant that an outside observer, who can see the box (either via perspective today or from the future) will call them brilliant.
Importantly, some of these people will never be recognized in any significant way... some won’t even do much worth recognizing. There are lots of reasons for this, but brilliant weirdos live all kinds of lives
Finding a weirdo community has a positive multiplicative impact on those who DO make significant contributions, but it’s definitely not the case that smart + weird = destined for personal success
Individuals, particularly weird ones, are extraordinarily more risk-tolerant than even loose institutions like silicon valley. Often to a fault.
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