[DrBoring]

Interesting little article. To me, it speaks like the author is a bit remorseful for spending so much time on academic pursuits, and not building important social skills.

I can recall in my youth making the assumption that someone was entirely stupid because they didn't share my breadth of knowledge. Like the author, I never considered that they spent their time in pursuit of other knowledge.

I'm not sure where that inclination originated. It seems like a modeled behavior, but I can't think from where I learned it. Or perhaps it's just human nature, and the behavior we need to taught is to appreciate how vastly different everyone is from yourself.

P.S. It's funny to see the replies to this post where the people thought the topic was "Ask HN: What video game are you playing right now?"

[oreally]

It's ego. The simple awareness of a metric and where you are on it vs where the other guy is gives raise to comparisons, and ultimately feeds your ego. And that ego gets in the way of what could be better relationships.

[theWreckluse]

I believe that he is remorseful, but for judging the world as being beneath him and not being able to see the beauty of others' games in some sense.

[balaji1]

how much of his judging was actually coming from within? And how much was because the society (school system mostly) around him telling academics/science was the right thing to be doing, and since he was good at those, he was somehow better and allowed to judge others...

I don't even know if the society around him had the best intentions for him as an individual. Else he would have been taught better.

[torginus]

Generally speaking I was the same, the I wasn't. I spent a significant amount of my youth, and an unreasonable amount of effort being involved in amateur astronomy. As you can imagine, it didn't exactly catapult me to the top of the high school social hierarchy.

Yet as an adult, I've received a lot of respect and admiration (from people whose opinion I care about) for my knowledge in this domain, and I can say I have an unconventional and very rewarding hobby.

[DrBoring]

P.P.S. Minecraft with my daughter. It's the first survival play-through for both of us.

[eyelidlessness]

For me it’s finally getting to see my pup do both competitive and cooperative fetch/keep away with another pup in the same play. (All the more pertinent discussion is more valuable overall, but I wanted to honor wholesome family play too)

[onionisafruit]

I did that with my oldest daughter about 10 years ago. It was a great bonding experience. Neither of us are really gamers, but we have that experience in common.