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[Calling it for this November, happy to have gotten a few short posts out.] For a couple years in my childhood, my mom picked up an obsession that can only be described as extreme couponing. At the…| Radimentary
Today I want to review a concept present in many domains, but most clearly articulated by TCG players. In a game like Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone, gameplay divides neatly into two phases: de…| Radimentary
Today I want to end this discussion about research collaboration with my most useful tip for grad students: build an explicit model of how collaborators work, especially your PhD advisor. One of yo…| Radimentary
Today we continue our discussion about research meetings with a few concrete strategies. When I was a new graduate student, I often had long meetings with my PhD advisor and other professors that w…| Radimentary
I once heard the following story about Szemerédi: His daughter was in elementary school at the time, and her teacher asked everyone to share a bit about their parents’ occupations. The kids w…| Radimentary
Last time we introduced the basic model of growth, which looks like this: The thesis is that noticeable growth is typically punctuated by a long intermediate period of low return on investment, whi…| Radimentary
[Followup to the previous post. I will likely collect and reorganize these shortforms once the month is over.] The narrative from the previous post outlines my basic model for how growth works. For…| Radimentary
In honor of NaNoWriMo, I’m joining a friend to write low-effort shortform blog posts every day this month. The first topic I’ll write about is what growth feels like, and where people h…| Radimentary