Sargoth (skateboard aspect) @Sargoth@scholar.social

Comments on footnotes in comments on footnotes: a biography

Person who wants to talk about bitcoins: hey
Me: did you know that the best way to conceptualize bitcoin is as a modern day Pythagorean sect?
Person: [has left the conversation]

When younger students ask you to participate in their studies, you participate in their studies

today is the day I invite myself to a higher seminar

as you do

I now have an unbroken chain of chairmen going back to the year of my birth, which is way more years than I can really comprehend

it's tempting to think I'm almost done, but there's still 40 years to go

A whodunnit written for analytic philosophers
http://longersky.com/2019/09/23/a-whodunnit-written-for-analytic-philosophers/

What are the ancillary skills developed and exercised during the process of grant writing? What do you learn that you wouldn't otherwise? What incidental insights do you bump into?

I will never not be amused by the fact that the time spent writing grant applications in aggregate far exceeds the time actually funded by said grants

behold
the veil of foreshadowing
https://longersky.com/2019/09/18/the-veil-of-foreshadowing/

I'm always amused by how there are courses in research methodology when you're at university, and then when you get out into the field you have to learn how to do something completely different in order to carry out said research

in completely unrelated news, archival lockers from the 40s are surprisingly difficult to break into if the keys have somehow been lost over the course of the last two generations

today I was in the archives all day
sometimes
it do be like that

the crux here is of course that I've spend many hours in the office pouring through years of documentation to get a sense of the culture of this house I live in. like a good social scientist is wont to do

ach
caught up in my own joek, am I

next time I apply for something, I'm going to creatively rejigger things to be scientific investigations. me being elected chairman of my local housing coop will thus be described as an extensive, in-depth investigation of local coop culture by means of participatory action research

as you do

Sometimes I think about how society is a great interlocking web of specialized fields, all interacting with the world and each other in highly idiosyncratic ways, the whole a great deal greater than the sum of its parts -

yet people consider themselves at the pinnacle of human achievement for having gained insight into but one of these specializations

it is a humbling thought