Being stroppy

Crazy ideas are mostly wrong
Eccentricity and group context
Incoming
Interesting people
References

Notes on eccentrics, mavericks, outsider geniuses and fools. Stroppy people. Lacking an identifiable label so you show up in diversity metrics? Not sure whether you are rebelling against society, or conforming to a subgroup? How do you get by as a mad outsider? Will you be right twice a day? Do you want to find a rationale for people like you? How about that you are useful for innovation?

Crazy ideas are mostly wrong

Case studies? Lynn Margulis.

Eccentricity and group context

For an interesting perspective on whether taking one for the team and being the house oddball is worthwhile, see Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird (Khazan 2021).

Incoming

New Industries Come From Crazy People.

The new Matthew Syed book might pertain (Syed 2020).

Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net
Different Is The Generator, Not A Side Effect - by George
Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
A critique of “Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned”
The Correct Contrarian Cluster
Normies vs Statistical Normality
Normies claim to be a larger and more powerful coalition than they actually are by conflating their conformity target with statistical normality.
A Non-Conformist’s Guide to Success in a Conformist World
How To Win Public Opinion, The VC Method - by Rohit

Interesting people

References

Georgi, Howard. 2022. “Physics in a Diverse World or A Spherical Cow Model of Physics Talent.” arXiv:2203.09485 [Hep-Ph, Physics:hep-Th, Physics:physics], March.

Gino, Francesca. 2018. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life. 1st edition. New York, NY: Dey Street Books.

Kashdan, Todd B. 2021. The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively. New York: Avery.

Khazan, Olga. 2021. Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World. Hachette Go.

Page, Scott E. 2008. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition. New edition with a New preface by the author. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Stephens, Nicole M., Lauren A. Rivera, and S. S. Townsend. 2020. “What Works to Increase Diversity? A Multi-Level Approach.” Research in Organizational Behavior, 1–51.

Syed, Matthew. 2020. Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking. S.l.: John Murray.

For people too perverse to be contrarian

Crazy ideas are mostly wrong

Eccentricity and group context

Incoming

Interesting people

References

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