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acemarkeYeah, it describes in stereotypes, but those stereotypes are largely true.
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Daniel AndrlikThis is an excellent essay written for the poor benighted souls who have taken on having a relationship with a nerd. Honestly, I prefer the term "geek", but in this essay the words are interchangeable. At least in my case, the observations made here may be a little exaggerated, but the general trends described are accurate. I like to think I'm a better listener and more empathetic than what is described here, but you would have to ask those who know me personally to get an objective opinion.
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First, you need to convince him that you’re going to do your best to recreate his cave in his new surrounding
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Geekgirl 397He sees the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable. This is a fragile illusion that your nerd has adopted, but it’s a pleasant one that gets your nerd through the day. When the illusion is broken, you are going to di
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Bill BittnerA nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
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Lindsay DonagheA truely awesome and accurate dissection of a nerd's worldview and behavior. I can so identify with nearly all of this. And the fun part is that it's helping me feed my illusion that "the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable" by providing me with this guided tour of my psyche!
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It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why.
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The joy your nerd finds in his project is one of problem solving and discovery. As each part of the project is completed, your nerd receives an adrenaline rush that we’re going to call The High.
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The ability to instantly context switch also comes from a life on the computer. Your nerd’s mental information model for the world is one contained within well-bounded tidy windows where the most important tool is one that allows your nerd to move swiftly from one window to the next. It’s irrelevant that there may be no relationship between these windows. Your nerd is used to making huge contextual leaps where he’s talking to a friend in one window, worrying about his 401k in another, and reading about World War II in yet another.
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Your nerd’s insatiable quest for information and The High has tweaked his brain in an interesting way. For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the incoming information fits into the system of things your nerd currently cares about. Expect active involvement from your nerd when you trip the relevance flag. If you trip the irrelevance flag, look for verbal punctuation announcing his judgment of irrelevance. It’s the word your nerd says when he’s not listening and it’s always the same.
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People are the most interesting content out there. If you’ve got a seriously shy nerd on your hands, try this: ask him how many folks are in his buddy list? How many friends does he have in Facebook? How many folks are following him on Twitter? LiveJournal? My guess is that, collectively, your nerd interacts with ten times more people than you think he does. He can do this because the interaction is via a system he understands — the computer.
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Edison MoraisManual para a convivência com um Nerd. Dá explicações de como funciona a cabeça de um nerd e sua relação com o mundo,
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singpolymaA nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
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Josiah RitchieThe nerd handbook is an attempt by a nerd to help the spouses of nerds to understand their nerd more accurately.
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A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
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Will BoltonFunny stuff. I can identify with some of it. Probably fair to say that all nerds are introverts, but not all introverts are nerds.
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