The nerds own the future… we all knew that, I suppose. It was during the IT boom that this became fully apparent. All magazines wrote a bit about it and then this just became readily acknowledged. Quarterbacks become truck drivers - nerds millionaires… something like that.

But I had not yet contemplated the nerd’s latest scheme: China! All the successful white guys I meet her (I can’t distinguish Chinese nerds) are nerds. The guys that went and studied Chinese at university 10 years ago… yes, that’s right. Not the trendiest folk on the planet. But they are doing pretty well for themselves now. The ones that came to China, when it was just opening up… same story.

Not sure where all of this leaves me, I was certainly no quarterback, but perhaps not quite nerdy enough to make it in this part of the world. I did have braces for a long time - perhaps there is hope.