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> branded as a 'privacy nut'

Only the Paranoid Survive. A book by The President and CEO of Intel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove

Wide-ranging thoughts and examining what-ifs makes you a curious individual. Failure to counterbalance confirmation bias by critically examining and deconstructing your own hypotheses makes you a crackpot.

The main difference between the two is just which paranoid thoughts you give credence to.

What?

It appears he differentiated being paranoid, and being a critical thinker.

Obviously a good thinker checks all possibilities, being paranoid in scientific sense.

Great book! Read it prob 20yrs ago.

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