feels like i’m getting away with something by talking about math on here. like it’s... not fair to everyone else somehow? 🤔 something i don’t like about the idea of having a conversation “in public” with a potentially really high barrier to entry
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one of the nice things about talking about feelings and childhoods and shit is literally everyone has feelings and literally everyone had a childhood, they’re universal
meanwhile when it comes to math some of you are / were grad students and some of you have math anxiety 😔
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there’s something i like about the idea of bringing to twitter this more technical side of myself i’ve been leaving out and/but also i don’t wanna make people feel excluded or inadequate if i don’t have to. hmm. thoughts?
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when i talk about math i also have to be careful not to talk like a huge asshole
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Perhaps this could be recontextualized, as many folks who enjoy your thoughts are also curious folks eager to learn & level up their thinking — in the logical domain as well as the emotional
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I for one, would be happy to hear anything & everything you have to say about math. It might be different and, immediately, less relatable than emotion, but it's still a space absolutely worth investigating
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maybe talking about it is a step toward making it more approachable? Though making it approachable may not be among your aims. Also you maybe gotta be ready for naive questions asked repeatedly by the math-curious (like me).
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i will surely not understand what your talking about but imo if your just enthused and stoked about it rather than talking ppl down I think it's fine
its nice seeing people being competent or excited about good things
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Numberphile, 3Blue1Brown,
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we really need more good examples
time for you to be the good examples it seems 🤷
I don't make the rules
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is another wonderful example.
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it can be a joy-filled challenge to try to communicate the thing clearly and in a twitter friendly way, no ?
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Sort of similarly, my worry talking about physics is that I leave this nice sociable bubble and attract argumentative people from Academia Twitter or Pedantic Technicality Twitter or somewhere
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hmm yes that does not sound fun although i think it’s probably worse for physics?
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