Any creative person who’s worth a damn has a dorky side. Good creative work can’t survive cynicism. Being a dork just means you can get insanely excited about something that not everyone can see is cool.
This is from a very funny post on a blog I read about fundraising - it was couched in a discussion about how you can’t be/act cool if you want to write effective copy for your development material. It’s true - but it def. fits into a larger discussion on what being a “dork” really means …
Young Alex would have loved some older “dork” to tell me this when I was growing up.
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