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I read a whole lot. Most of the ideas in my talks aren't original.
Below find links to a lot of the articles that informed me.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - superb fiction written from the point of view of an Autistic teen. High recommended reading.
- Wired 9.12: Take The AQ Test - a somewhat informal assessment for Asperger tendencies.
- Tact Filters - everybody has them. Nerds have theirs hooked up backwards.
- Why Nerds are Unpopular - Paul Graham's excellent perspective on high school life from a nerd's point of view
- What You'll Wish You'd Known - Paul Graham speaks to graduating seniors
- Wikipedia entry on Autism
- The Nonverbal Dictionary
- Newsweek Interactive: The Autism Quotient
- One for the ladies: How to date a geek guy
- Intuitive
Equals Familiar
- Scientific
American Mind: A Look Tells All - A person's face will always reveal
his true feelings -- if, like Paul Ekman, you are quick enough to
recognize microexpressions.
- Coding Horror: Does Writing Code Matter?
- Experts:
Some Women Perform Well in Math - New York Times -
Telling women they can't do well in math may turn out be a self-fulfilling statement. In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who were told there is a genetic difference in math ability.
- Psychology
Today: Why I Hate Beauty -
Men are barraged with images of extraordinarily beautiful and unobtainable women in the media, making it difficult for them to desire the ordinarily beautiful.
- Advice for Computer Science College Students - Joel on Software
- Not tonight darling, I'm online
- Caring for Your Introvert
- The Porn Myth - In the end, porn doesn't whet men's appetites -- it turns
them off the real thing.
- XKCD's top-20 date ideas for
geeks
- High-school style popularity is effectively worthless in the adult world
