What is Nerd Acumen?

Possessing ‘acumen’ basically means you’ve got some sort of keener insight or greater understanding about something, and it can help you make savvier, shrewder, or more professional choices related to a given subject matter (or, at least, you think you can). So, things like business acumen, political acumen, academic acumen, financial acumen, fashion acumen, social acumen – these are things that help a person navigate the worlds in which such corresponding subject matter are found.  Having acumen doesn’t necessarily mean you have complete subject matter expertise, you just know enough to handle any given situation – you can make a quick decision.

At Nerd Acumen, we’re not really “experts” – we’re just pretending to be experts, though hopefully our pretension will educate just enough to help you glean meaningful insight on all things nerdy.  We present short, concise, encapsulated educational “modules” about nerd-related topics.  And topical we hope to be.  There are a million websites sharing geek news and covering everything there is that dorks, nerds, geeks and other obsessives might care about. Rather than be just another stupid website, we’re going to make some concerted effort to interpret the nerd universe with a particularly critical approach.