random_walker Academia forces you to pay a "cleverness tax" if you want to succeed—it's a tax on your time that goes towards constantly convincing others that your work is clever enough for publication, getting a PhD, tenure, and promotion. It's one of the things that pushes people out.
wiase *arbeitet mit Word*
*denkt: 'Ach, das funktioniert doch ganz gut.'*
*erwartet minütlich vollständiges, weltumspannendes Chaos*
Word of the day: caucasity twitter.com/AnnaDushime/st…
wayfu (dt.) Polterabend = (engl.) pottery slam
28% done with Herkunft, by Saša Stanišić: "Wir tragen Häkchen im Namen. (...) Sie stimmt... goodreads.com/user_status/sh…
innere_simone Töchter sagen beim Gehen "Tschüsseldorf" und "Bundesgartenciao", aber die sind volljährig, und ich finde, irgendwann endet die elterliche Verantwortung.
wehret den dingen
derwahremawa Wer nur Möbiusbands hört, entwickelt einen einseitigen Musikgeschmack
ojahnn Doing someone a favor is often easier or less annoying than doing something out of some abstract rational necessity. So I promise myself that I'll fix my bike, then I do myself the favor of actually going through with it, and then I can be grateful to myself for fixing my bike.
ojahnn I've recently developed a habit of saying "I promised myself I'd do X" instead of "I have to do X". I think it reduces pressure by painting me more as the recipient of a generous favor, whose originator I coincidentally also am. Also, I usually keep promises, so it's a nice hack.
minoovo he doesn't realize he can't scratch his ear while lying down pic.twitter.com/lR17ph2VM3
thingskatedid Essentially I think working environment is important, whether it's making jigs for hardware, quickly seeing data, or getting at the structure of something.
You get a good idea of what you need without losing your working memory; it's right there where you already are.
thingskatedid Made myself a shell alias to conveniently show grammars as railroad diagrams in a terminal. BNF at the top, regexp at the bottom. pic.twitter.com/2Awf536GOd