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Missive: nerd edition

Missive: nerd edition

Ways in which we undermine ourselves

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Amy Guth
Sep 09, 2021
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Missive: nerd edition
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It’s your Monday missive, but on Thursday this week to steer entirely clear of your inbox on both Labor Day and both days of Rosh Hashanah.

This week, what’s on my mind is the idea of calling oneself “a nerd.”

We all probably do some variation of this: you start talking about a topic for which you have passion and knowledge, and then jokingly add “Ha ha,…

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