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Nov 12, 2026
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4 min read
I worked within an empirically productive paradigm whose philosophical foundations I seldom had reason to question. And now, finding my feet in a new discipline, I appear to have over-corrected and swung myself into another extreme.
Nov 5, 2026
5 min read
This is not to suggest there are no costs at all, but there is a possibility of conducting meaningful research on a shoestring budget if one makes the appropriate compromises.
Oct 29, 2026
6 min read
Academia has a loneliness problem. Chatbots offer a convenient workaround.
Oct 22, 2026
In an attempt to protect the pieces of our scholarly selves, which must be woven into the work we do, from being collapsed we would induce the collapse of the scholarly self in its entirety.
Essay
Oct 15, 2026
3 min read
I can recognize the limitations of my knowledge without deciding that those limitations disqualify me from pursuing knowledge in the first place.
Oct 8, 2026
Therefore, take pleasure in the acts of production which develop you as a scholar and do them often. Enjoy the process of creating messy, incoherent, incomplete works - and words - about the topics which inspired you to pursue the life of the scholar in the first place
Oct 1, 2026
7 min read
But when it came to the rules, methods, processes, and practices of doing academic research involved in actually doing academic research, and learning how to play the academic research game, I don’t think I gained these just by going through a PhD program.
Sep 24, 2026
Why is it acceptable to value research work when it comes to a job, but not acceptable to value research when it comes to education, for the sake of learning?
Sep 17, 2026
In the essay, he narrates a story of a seventeen-year-old student at the University of Strasbourg who, instead of following the prescribed anatomy curriculum involving dissection and microscopic examinations of tissues, was experimenting with dyes and microscopic specimens.
Open Notebook
Sep 11, 2026
The conditions within which we work are maintained in such a way that prevents this kind of chaos. And while a spark sputters and flickers out of existence, the hearts wherein it was born are turned towards a more productive use of their desires: that work for and with the system instead of against it.
Sep 3, 2026
Perhaps I should submit my recently finished proposal to a proper program? I believe it stands a chance of being considered.
Aug 27, 2026
9 min read
Refusing to participate in an alternative, and insisting that the alternative is illegitimate can both, potentially, express a greater investment in the world as it already exists.
