The Midwit Trap
How to be brilliant and alone.
7 min readOct 3, 2023
The “midwit” feedback loop makes a lot of sense:
- Common sense and intuition are replaced with a more “objective” explanation (which often happens to nicely excuse our character defects).
- Despite their emotional cost, we buy and consume those explanations in exchange for a little boost in status (actually, did you know…).