{"id":259,"date":"2009-10-30T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2009-10-30T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T09:35:37","slug":"john-hodgman-on-jock-vs-nerd-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/john-hodgman-on-jock-vs-nerd-culture","title":{"rendered":"John Hodgman on Jock vs Nerd culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lot&#8217;s of lovely quotes from the delightful Mr. Hodgman in <a href=\"Jockdom is very noble. It's not deliberative. It's certainly the best way to win wars. It's the best way to motivate teams of people to fulfill a goal -- not just war, but getting things done. The most important way to motivate a factory floor. But as you know, we're not as much of a manufacturing society as we were before. China and other big industrial nations are rewarding their nerds and technicians rather than creating a culture that makes fun of them -- it would be wise for us to embrace the book-smart as much as our culture has traditionally embraced the street-smart, the jock-smart. I'm not saying nerds must have their revenge; I'm just saying the time for wedgies is at an end.\">an interview with a local Kansas City news blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;\">Jockdom is very noble. It&#8217;s not deliberative. It&#8217;s certainly the best way to win wars. It&#8217;s the best way to motivate teams of people to fulfill a goal &#8212; not just war, but getting things done. The most important way to motivate a factory floor. But as you know, we&#8217;re not as much of a manufacturing society as we were before. China and other big industrial nations are rewarding their nerds and technicians rather than creating a culture that makes fun of them &#8212; it would be wise for us to embrace the book-smart as much as our culture has traditionally embraced the street-smart, the jock-smart. I&#8217;m not saying nerds must have their revenge; I&#8217;m just saying the time for wedgies is at an end.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot&#8217;s of lovely quotes from the delightful Mr. Hodgman in an interview with a local Kansas City news blog: Jockdom is very noble. It&#8217;s not deliberative. It&#8217;s certainly the best way to win wars. It&#8217;s the best way to motivate teams of people to fulfill a goal &#8212; not just war, but getting things done. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}