In general, Nashville seems poised to be a sleeper tech city. Cheapish (especially surrounding areas), lots of money (personal and business), liberalish, well located. Though crime rates leave something to be desired and it can be a bit backwards/old South sometimes.
I more mean that it deviates from the normal southern views. It votes blue more often than not, is quite "metropolitan" and getting more so. Sure Williamson and Rutherford are about as crazy right wing as it gets with that many people around but Davidson is much different. Most of the inane things coming out of the state gov't aren't introduced by Nashville/Davidson reps, heck silly most legislation seems to be because of Stacey Campfield.
Ditto. (Though I mostly grew up a lot farther out in the sticks.) I think what they mean is "the area around Vandy and the recently-gentrified portions of East Nashville are liberalish".
That having been said, the general feel of Nashville has really changed over the past decade.
I used to see it as a "dirty, smelly big city", but it certainly feels more alive now than it used to.
Then again, perhaps a lot of that is the fact that I live somewhere else, and now I go there to visit friends and family.
At any rate, glad to see a pyTN conference springing up!
I only go across the river to visit friends or go to the tomato fest and Vandy area for McDougals chicken.
I live and have lived in the areas people consider solidly red, you'd be surprised how people vote. They just don't wave a moderate or liberal flag like the conservatives do.
Additionally, a lot of the liberal/conservative divide is actually urban vs. rural. Davidson Co. is certainly mostly urban.
I think I just have a skewed perspective of things, as I interact almost entirely with people in the rural parts of TN (which obviously isn't Nashville itself).
Quite insightful but no, compared to many other conservative cities and it's seems to be leaning away from it's conservative past. For example, there's still tons of churches but some of the biggest and most popular are the newer,relaxed ones.
Do you live in Nashville? Nashville is progressing faster than Knoxville, but far slower than Chattanooga. It's a complex situation, and I don't think you can boil it down to comparing the churches. As far as being a "sleeper tech city", I've yet to see any indication that Nashville is on the verge of a high tech or startup renaissance. If you want to see a traditionally conservative, "sleeper tech city" look no further than Greenville, SC. Greenville has recently (in the last 7 years) entered a rapid development phase with numerous tech startups, co-work facilities, etc. Have you ever considered moving to Greenville? I'd move to Greenville over Nashville any day. OR I could start a company in Maynardville - farming as a service or some such thing.
I live in Nashville and I have lived in Chattanooga and I definitely don't share your sentiment. Maybe it's not obvious to you, but there are some phenomenal happenings here.
"If you want to see a traditionally conservative, "sleeper tech city" look no further than Greenville, SC. Greenville has recently (in the last 7 years) entered a rapid development phase with numerous tech startups, co-work facilities, etc"
I remember trying this some year ago when a lot of bloggers were trying it out and blogging about their experiences. I tried the Uberman Sleep Cycle (4x15min) but inevitably it wore me down to the point of being completely nonfunctional.
I had the same experience when I tried it about 7 or 8 years ago. When I finally decided to stop (after about 2 months on Uberman) I crashed for about 14 hours straight, and was still oversleeping/catching up every night for about a week afterwards.
I tried it for about 3 months in 2005. Things I noticed:
- I gave up caffeine the month before the trial. I had pretty significant withdrawal effects (migraines) for that month.
- I was pretty much completely non-functional for about half an hour before the scheduled nap times
- I didn't think I was impacted very much, but friends commented after that I definitely seemed less bright than normal. I hope that it was for the half an hour mentioned above, but if you want to try it you should definitely try and get some objective measurement of performance.
- I still notice effects to this day. I can nap pretty much wherever & whenever I want, and fall asleep within minutes of my head hitting the pillow. Before the trial, it used to take me hours to fall asleep.
Thankfully the recommended uberman is 6x20-22 and dymaxion is 4x30, but there are no confirmed successful adaptations to it. Uberman is seriously difficult to adapt to, but Everyman-3 is a good compromise (several naps and a core)
I am an introvert and I have been fighting this for a very long time. Recently I started my own meetup groups to push myself into meeting new people and hopefully helping me become a little more social.
If I were to guess, it's just a consequence of arrogance. Which in itself is an evolutionary artifact that was necessary for our survival. Imagine if we were 100% humble about every subject. Then you'd be 100% agnostic about every problem, and then never make any decision.
"Should I hunt a deer? I don't know, I don't think I'll ever know." Then dies of starvation. At some point you need that little drop of arrogance to tell you. "That's it, I'm right, I need to do this." Even tho, technically, you can't be sure.
So a little bit of arrogance is necessary for animals to function. We evolved into beings with a drop of arrogance because the ones without this trait died off. Natural selection made sure both extremely humble and extremely arrogant personalities were evolved away from.
And bragging about is just one of the many consequences of arrogance. We're arrogant + we can communicate = we brag.
Perhaps it's for the same reason as why we like to help others in an area we're knowledgeable about. We are experts of ourselves, we love to talk authoritatively on subjects we know lots about. It'd be interesting to see if we get the same "pleasure sensation" from teaching/helping.
That’s probably the case. Teachers certainly seem to find it pleasurable to teach, and I’ve found it immensely rewarding to tutor CS and SE students while in college. It’s useful practice as a writer to have someone constantly challenging you to explain yourself succinctly and clearly.
On the other hand, it’s also great to talk with someone who’s knowledgeable about your interests. That seems to have less to do with pleasing oneself by speaking as an authority, and more to do with sharing and collaboration. My major is not in computing, so it was a breath of fresh air to discover CS professors and graduate students with whom I could speak freely.
I agree, this article is far too shallow given the headline. I'd love to see the actual results or at least a more in depth analysis of the research and the results. The obvious aside, it would be very interesting to know what type of evolutionary or social function "bragging" may serve... But alas, this article is clearly lacking...
