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Insomnia Questions I'm Not Qualified to Answer - No. 3
Every decision you've ever made in your life has led up to this moment.
It's so poetic!
We all know the saying, even though we're unsure who actually said it first. It's had me thinking lately. Perhaps these are the stereotypical musings of th...
Post · December 28, 2025
When Learning and Unlearning Took Generations
Much current debate about immigration treats movement as an anomaly, but from an anthropological perspective migration has been the human norm. For most of our species’ existence people were mobile hunter-gatherers, following food, trade routes an...
Post · December 27, 2025
On Objectivity, Pluralism, and AI
Ethics isn’t like politics. It doesn’t bend depending on which country you’re in or which flag you wave. And yet, we see it all the time: what should be obvious is brushed off as “ideology.” But there has to be objectivity in ethics. My pain is th...
Post · December 27, 2025
A quick guide to effective collaboration (with advisors)
For more ambitious research projects, one often needs to be soaked in ideas or concepts for longer, in an unstructured, low-pressure situation—often when one is simply attending to some intellectual unease, not formally “doing research.” Ambitious...
Post · December 27, 2025
The Happy Death of the Knowledge Gatekeepers
Before I begin I must say that science does require peer gatekeepers for new knowledge, to critically examine any new body of work. That's the good kind of gatekeeping. But I'm going to rant and express my excitement for the death of another vile ...
Post · December 26, 2025
The Metamorphosis of my Identity
Time, Reckoning and Nostalgia
I've been thinking about how long it takes for an experience—say, saying something foolish at a party and making everyone cringe—to ripen into nostalgia. For me, the threshold seems to hover at around five years. I’m...
Post · December 25, 2025
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