{"id":263,"date":"2008-05-03T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/263"},"modified":"2008-05-03T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T11:40:57","slug":"required-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/263","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/the_nerd_handbook.html\">The Nerd Handbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, it&#8217;s a little bit slanted toward the computer nerd, but many things apply to general geekage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Your nerd might come off as not liking people.<\/strong> Small talk. Those first awkward five minutes when two people are forced to interact. Small talk is the bane of the nerd\u2019s existence because small talk is a combination of aspects of the world that your nerd hates. When your nerd is staring at a stranger, all he\u2019s thinking is, \u201cI have no system for understanding this messy person in front of me\u201d. This is where the shy comes from. This is why nerds hate presenting to crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The skills to interact with other people are there. They just lack a well-defined system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nerd Handbook OK, it&#8217;s a little bit slanted toward the computer nerd, but many things apply to general geekage. Your nerd might come off as not liking people. Small talk. Those first awkward five minutes when two people are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-science-general","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}