In don’t think you have an accurate idea about politicians. The fact that someone choses to project a certain public image doesn’t mean that he doesn’t care about listening to nerds. https://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/ is a nice article about Bush.
You can’t write policy or laws without thinking through the details in a nerdy way. A politician who doesn’t actually care about details might give the task of policy writting to a staffer but that still means that the actual policy gets written by a person who cares about details.
I don’t think getting listened to is a matter of a speaking a different language. Let’s imagine you are a nerd who cares about net neutrality and you are in space where open conversation is possible with Ajit Pai. You tell him that’s it’s bad that Comcast wanted money from Netflix and that this breaks net neutrality.
Then Ajit Pai tells you that the solution that Netflix favors where all major ISPs will host a Netflix Open Connect server for free doesn’t exactly result in neutrality between Netflix and other video upstarts (Pai considers those servers to effectively give the Netflix fast lanes). Most nerds won’t be able to respond meaningfully because everything the kind of debate they have read about net neutrality hasn’t discussed Netflix Open Connect.
This means that the average nerds will seem uninformed to Pai and that’s a more likely reason why Pai won’t listen then issues about speaking a different language.
The nerd who today knows everything about D&D may tomorrow know everything about social grace and charm, if they so choose.
Knowing things about social grace and charm is not the same thing as actually having the corresponding skills. Most people won’t reached Obama level public speaking skills even if they train a lot.
That said I also don’t want to discourage anybody from our community who thinks a political career would be a match for him to persue it.
In don’t think you have an accurate idea about politicians. The fact that someone choses to project a certain public image doesn’t mean that he doesn’t care about listening to nerds. https://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/ is a nice article about Bush.
You can’t write policy or laws without thinking through the details in a nerdy way. A politician who doesn’t actually care about details might give the task of policy writting to a staffer but that still means that the actual policy gets written by a person who cares about details.
I don’t think getting listened to is a matter of a speaking a different language. Let’s imagine you are a nerd who cares about net neutrality and you are in space where open conversation is possible with Ajit Pai. You tell him that’s it’s bad that Comcast wanted money from Netflix and that this breaks net neutrality.
Then Ajit Pai tells you that the solution that Netflix favors where all major ISPs will host a Netflix Open Connect server for free doesn’t exactly result in neutrality between Netflix and other video upstarts (Pai considers those servers to effectively give the Netflix fast lanes). Most nerds won’t be able to respond meaningfully because everything the kind of debate they have read about net neutrality hasn’t discussed Netflix Open Connect.
This means that the average nerds will seem uninformed to Pai and that’s a more likely reason why Pai won’t listen then issues about speaking a different language.
Knowing things about social grace and charm is not the same thing as actually having the corresponding skills. Most people won’t reached Obama level public speaking skills even if they train a lot.
That said I also don’t want to discourage anybody from our community who thinks a political career would be a match for him to persue it.
Why would a nerd even want to be Arthur, when they are so suited to being Merlin?