I mean, they all do in hindsight, but in the moment of decision, Dolmetsch was a teenager during a surge of Colombian refugees and his only qualification was being admitted to a U.S. college. I picked him because he was topical, but I could just as easily have googled "scientists with blue-collar immigrant parents" like I did just now, and used someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_M._Hern%C3%A1ndez who was a Mexican migrant laborer before developing an innovative mammography tool and then going into space.
...it's not cherry-picking when the conversation is about outliers, it's an existence proof. You're here from an ACX comment thread about a specific negative outlier picked for its outlier qualities.
Love this one so much. So beautiful.
Yes to all of this, yes. I am a bit to verklempt from reading it to write more, but thank you.
I mean, they all do in hindsight, but in the moment of decision, Dolmetsch was a teenager during a surge of Colombian refugees and his only qualification was being admitted to a U.S. college. I picked him because he was topical, but I could just as easily have googled "scientists with blue-collar immigrant parents" like I did just now, and used someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_M._Hern%C3%A1ndez who was a Mexican migrant laborer before developing an innovative mammography tool and then going into space.
...it's not cherry-picking when the conversation is about outliers, it's an existence proof. You're here from an ACX comment thread about a specific negative outlier picked for its outlier qualities.