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?
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).
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.
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