When you say "we", you don't mean me right? 😂

Apologies if you're an Oxbridge graduate and I have offended you.

Intelligence comes in all forms and academic intelligence is very well respected, but perhaps to the exclusion of most other forms.

For me, I assumed I wasn't intelligent because I essentially failed at school. I got to A level, then did an HNC at college.

It turns out, I just lost interest when somebody tried to explain things by script without explaining why.

As soon as I was able to think for myself and started asking why, it turned out my highly intelligent academic friends didn't know.

To use the YouTube influencer parlance. I was shocked 😂

It turns out that most forms of intelligence that I have been able to identify during my professional life remained undetected by traditional institutions and so we became very successful finding intelligence in the wilderness.

I have a neighbour who is a former Oxford Mathematics professor who I am teaching Bitcoin to.

I have an Oxbridge friend who is a genius in traditional financial systems, who I keep on explaining how those systems work

and

I have another neighbour who was one of the worlds top bankers, I spent 13.5 hours explaining how the banking system works.

I taught my retired GP father in law about viruses during the pandemic and I have disrupted two industries because I don't accept anything just "because".

Being stupid is the most clever thing you can possibly be, it prevents you from not taking anything for granted.

On the other side, academics do know a lot of stuff I don't, I just wish they knew enough to be able to explain it to me 😂

hey, not saying the middle of england didn't do great things, i mean, really, really great things

but i think also that what nostr has achieved was something that was in thousands of people's minds after they grasped what bitcoin was, i cite as evidence the sheer volume of efforts to create decentralised social networks and the many models that were proposed that finally some crazy brazillian used to devise a client and a relay and the rest was history

it took a LONG time for this to happen

partly, i think, because the people with the brains to do it were driven outside of the education system by marxist ideology, btw.

I did know who to find the right people to employ that created much of the technology of the early Internet.

Also LCD displays, which my Father's company built and we helped evolve the technology, along with solenoids, stepper motors, Japanese HMI (human machine interfaces) or keyboards as you and I would call it. We also created data centres, and the part of the technology that spies on us today. HELLO NSA, how yer doing?

We also created electromagnetic displays, which had a short, successful life before the blue LED was invented, which we were not involved with.