The Economist:
More broadly, the replacement of organisation man with disorganisation man is changing the balance of power. Those square pegs may not have an easy time in school. They may be mocked by jocks and ignored at parties. But these days no serious organisation can prosper without them. As Kiran Malhotra, a Silicon Valley networker, puts it: “It’s actually cool to be a geek.”
There is hope for me yet.
It does seem that in these particular fields, the long-held notion of “normal” is actually an outlier definition that most people won’t ever fully fit.