Nice example of geek exceptionalism there, dude.
To be fair, it might have some merit if we were literally talking about the average person, though I'm far from certain; someone buys an awful lot of mass-market self-help books and I don't think it's exclusively Bay Aryans. But I was using "Joe Sixpack" there in the sense of "someone who is not a geek", or even "someone who isn't part of the specific cluster of techies that LW draws from", and there should be plenty of smart, motivated, growth-oriented people within that set. If we can't speak to them, that's entirely on us.
Nice example of geek exceptionalism there, dude.
Nah, just plain-vanilla arrogance :-D I am not quite sure I belong to the American geek culture, anyway.
But I was using "Joe Sixpack" there in the sense of "someone who is not a geek", or even "someone who isn't part of the specific cluster of techies that LW draws from"
Ah. I read "Joe Sixpack" as being slightly above "redneck" and slightly below "your average American with 2.2 children".
So do you mean people like engineers, financial quants, ...
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