I don’t care about your IQ score. It’s a weak predictor of life satisfaction, career success, creativity, or wisdom. Factors like persistence, social skills, opportunity, and emotional regulation matter far more.

The Devs architecting Lightning’s payment channels and Nostr’s decentralized protocols aren’t consulting their IQ scores, and neither are the sharpest people I follow and who follow me back, though there’s always room for more brilliant minds in the conversation.

They’re all proving that real intelligence is measured in problems solved, not points accumulated on a century old parlor trick designed to sort schoolchildren.