GSF #6: The patterns I see among my geek friends are patterns peculiar to geeks
This is a very interesting list of social assumptions that many people hold or have held but often don't hold up, and it's good to think about them.
But they're not universal among "geeks" nor rare among people who are not geeks, so the narrow framing and the armchair psychoanalyzing within that framing distract from the real insights.
Agreed! About 20 years ago, my sister held DND (D&D?) games in her basement, and I saw the weirdest lot of misanthropes in my young life. They made Comic Book guy look like Don Draper. Later she tells me that at least two of them wound up having an affair (within the circle). It struck me very un-geek of them to get down like that - opened my eyes. So yes Geeks experience the universal human condition :-)
I like that the way it is expressed uses a lot of mathematical concepts, notably in the theory of sets/groups. This seems to be required so the audience understands it.
There is an assumption here that geeks respond better to scientific-formatted articles.
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Perhaps I had to learn my lessons the hard way regardless
This is a very interesting list of social assumptions that many people hold or have held but often don't hold up, and it's good to think about them.
But they're not universal among "geeks" nor rare among people who are not geeks, so the narrow framing and the armchair psychoanalyzing within that framing distract from the real insights.
There is an assumption here that geeks respond better to scientific-formatted articles.