Category
Essays
6 posts.
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Your worst blind spot is the thing you are best at
Your worst blind spot hides in the skill you are most expert at. A layoff, a Talmudic line about the beam in your own eye, and how to go looking for what you cannot see.
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She could've been Erdős-1, but she was shy
She turned down a paper with Paul Erdős because she was too shy. On the gender gap in self-promotion, why visibility is part of the job, and how to leave a trail without bragging.
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It's not the Matthew effect. It's the Daniel effect.
Early success predicts later success — Merton called it the Matthew effect. Why AI doesn't level the field the way it appears to, and what to do about a cold start with no audience.
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Is it ethical to use AI to promote your research?
Is it ethical to use AI to promote your research? The case that it is unethical not to — because if careful researchers stay quiet, the reckless inherit the microphone.
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An Illustrated Guide to Academic Publishing
An illustrated story of how a paper is born — and why, among five million papers a year, most are read by almost no one. The problem is rarely quality; it is visibility.
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AI Articles Overtook Human Articles. That Is Not Automatically Bad
AI-generated articles now outnumber human-written ones. That is a shift in production, not an automatic decline — the leverage moves from writing to filtering and quality signals.