I never was good at hand written notes, but I always outperformed my classmates on tests. Except for the one geometry class where the teacher gave me detention for not taking enough notes. Maybe I'm an exception.

I'm unsure its safe to generalize in this space TBH. I think your story is familiar and enough seen it might be a counter-case to the argument.

That said.. "learning styles" has mostly been debunked. In truth we don't entirely know why some people do amazingly well in maths and some don't. It's an interesting field of research (and the related field of "does well in compsci")

Allegedly, Klaus Schwab. In reality it was a writer for the WEF that wrote an article about how bugs can be a more sustainable source of protein when compared to meat. The owning nothing part was another article looking at trends when Uber was taking off that imagined a future where everything could be rented through an app.

I'm not sure a work of fiction is the best example.

Bud Light, then. It's all the same cultural context. But quibble on, by all means.

It is conspiracy nonsense. It's the bedrock of people like Alex Jones along with the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the John Birch Society.

Quite likely. The Tektronix Industrial Park is only a mile or two from there.

There's also a museum that may be of interest here: https://vintagetek.org/

Yes, that's the same museum as the site with the article.

If you ever find yourself in Oregon, it's a wonderful place to visit if you like electronics, manufacturing history, etc.

I'd love to hear from someone with experience about what these metrics might mean and why these metrics are the ones X is focused on. That seems like a more productive avenue to focus on for a site like HN.