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My point here isn't that brilliant + productive people are *actually* creepy/maladjusted, it's that we culturally pathologize the kind of intense, unyielding interest they exhibit right up until they do something incredible. And then we pin their success on anything but *that*https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/998867955264905216 …

Sometimes I'm surprised at how different my intuitions about people are from yours, and then I remember you lived in the Midwest

My brain doesn't peg this as something with geographic differences within the US. Except maybe urban vs rural? Or maybe I a) didn't notice some things while I was in the Midwest for school b) was in a bubble while I was there, or c) haven't lived places that are different enough

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