Agreed. There seems to be what I can best call an intellectual aesthetic that drives about 1⁄2 instances of “nerding out” that I observe in the [East] Bay Area. The contrast between the Bay Area attitude and the Oxford attitude, the latter of which I guess applies to Ben Todd, has continually surprised me, and this variable of location may be dispositive over whether “nerding out” is evidence of desirable character.
Agreed. There seems to be what I can best call an intellectual aesthetic that drives about 1⁄2 instances of “nerding out” that I observe in the [East] Bay Area. The contrast between the Bay Area attitude and the Oxford attitude, the latter of which I guess applies to Ben Todd, has continually surprised me, and this variable of location may be dispositive over whether “nerding out” is evidence of desirable character.