{"id":16185,"date":"2014-07-03T05:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-could-bear-any-amount-of-nerdiness-if-someone\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T05:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T05:10:02","slug":"we-could-bear-any-amount-of-nerdiness-if-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-could-bear-any-amount-of-nerdiness-if-someone\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026We could bear any amount of nerdiness if someone was truly smart. What we couldn\u2019t stand were people with a lot of attitude. But most of those weren\u2019t truly smart, so our third test was largely a restatement of the first.<\/p>\n<p>When nerds are unbearable it\u2019s usually because they\u2019re trying too hard to seem smart. But the smarter they are, the less pressure they feel to act smart. So as a rule you can recognize genuinely smart people by their ability to say things like \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d \u201cMaybe you\u2019re right,\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t understand x well enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>frame this last bit and put it on the wall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/start.html\">Paul Graham,\u00a0<em>How to Start a Startup<\/em><\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sofiaquintero.tumblr.com\/\">sofiaquintero<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026We could bear any amount of nerdiness if someone was truly smart. What we couldn\u2019t stand were people with a lot of attitude. But most of those weren\u2019t truly smart, so our third test was largely a restatement of the first. When nerds are unbearable it\u2019s usually because they\u2019re trying too hard to seem smart. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}