It’s Cool to Be Weird
The author received a quiz result indicating that only 0.594% of US adults share their combination. They reflect on how this rarity highlights their unique perspective within their supportive community. The piece expresses gratitude for exposure to diverse experiences and a desire to seek broader perspectives.
- ▪The quiz result showed that only 0.594% of US adults share the author's combination.
- ▪The author feels that this rarity may indicate they are surrounded by a like‑minded, supportive tribe.
- ▪They appreciate the site for exposing them to different flavors of weirdness.
- ▪The author intends to intentionally seek out a greater diversity of lived experiences.
- ▪They conclude with a positive wish for continued "weirding" among readers.
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Record
| Original publisher | kottke.org |
| Canonical URL | https://kottke.org/26/07/its-cool-to-be-weird |
| Publication time | 2026-07-29T21:00:00Z |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T21:45:05.957Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T21:45:05.957Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Quiz result: "Your combination is shared by 0.594% of US adults."Taking the quiz was an interesting experience because I found myself thinking "Are there really so few who do/have/believe [X]?" ... and that question itself feels like an indicator that I am likely surrounded by too much of my own (wonderfully weird and fun and brilliant and supportive) tribe.I remain grateful for the serendipitous exposure to other flavors of weird that this site provides, and will take this gentle boot to the butt that I should be intentional about seeking out a greater diversity of lived experience. Happy weirding, everyone!
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at kottke.org.
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