[brandonmenc]

I’ve spent a lot of time around smart and eccentric people and around various diet and exercise “communities” and one thing I’ve noticed is that smart and eccentric people are so much more likely to subscribe to faddish, heterodox diets and exercise routines.

Tech attracts a lot of smart, eccentric people with anti-authoritarian, anti-mainstream bents. Bizarre ideas strongly held about health and nutrition emerge naturally among this group.

Makes you wonder what else they’re not really experts about, but that can also be a feature. A guy doesn’t know you can’t just put a supercomputer touchscreen in everyone’s pocket but he also doesn’t know carrots don’t cure cancer.