Good stuff in there, for example this:

> The biggest problem with brilliant jerks is not necessarily even that they’re jerks. When you take a systemic perspective, they aren’t even brilliant! They’re dumb!

I also read about [Parochialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochialism) for the first time.

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