Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

In the past month I got into a new relationship with a woman who seems weirdly perfect for me and who I will likely marry and have children with. We'll likely be at least engaged in a year's time. She's sweet, funny, smart, and, I admit, really frickin' gorgeous.

Prior to starting to date we also arranged for me to move in with her at the end of July, and we're keeping those plans. We're both quite excited about it. We have spent lots of time at each other's places and around each other's family and friends, and we feel like we'll get along well when living together.

Everyone in our lives who have met us both have remarked on that we seem like a good match and that they like and enjoy being with us both. :)

One of my core beliefs is that ideas can be powerful. They aren't always, but they can be. And their power can come from very subtle parts of them — so subtle that you can easily overlook them. So you must be sensitive to them. But you also must work to not be blind to the big, obvious things, too — not just seeking after the small and trusting that surely something there will be big.

This morning I realized that "inflation" means that there's price increases across the board, so you need to think about factors that increase prices in order to understand it. And until now I'd overly associated the term "inflation" with the concept of there being expansions in the money supply that in turn drove price increases. (That's evidently only one factor that can cause it.)

I figured this out after looking into why the Fed would think that instituting a hiring freeze would help to curb inflation. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-fed-wants-corporate-america-to-have-a-hiring-freeze-morning-brief-100055174.html
#economics

I'm giving a short intro to #openscience (very broadly defined) to PhD students this week.

What are the things you wish you had been told as a PhD about how to practice Open Science?

What still confuses you to this day?

If you see yourself honoring and valuing the things you've done or created in the past, you can feel more confident that you'll be a good steward for the fruits of your present and future efforts.

Programmers, are there any resources that you'd recommend for learning how to understand and navigate documentations? Videos or courses might be especially helpful.
#docs #programming

All right, tomorrow I'm updating my resume and linkedin, Sunday I'm going to look at all the jobs people have sent me, going to get serious about the jorb search. Let me know if you know anybody looking for a statistician/data scientist!

and if any of you know anybody who might want a statistician/data scientist, let me know!

Not really an academics or working at any academic institution, but I still doing research in my free time. I'd very happy to hear your tips to publishing paper as an #IndependentResearcher.

Field of interest ranging from #Philosophy, #ReligiousStudies, to #Mysticism.

Currently based in #Indonesia. #introduction

@bthall "I'm the engine driver, not the oily rag" - Mr Kinnoch, Chemistry (used to assert his classroom dictatorship!)

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"Your manuscript 'Don't Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free' has also been rejected, but nice try."