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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huh. do you wanna say more? what pisses you off about it?
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sorry to hear that 😔 this is the kind of thing i worry about triggering in other people. and math gets me in my head a lot too
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math is rather language-dependent IME, and you can see public interest in it plummet after some key terms e.g. “Euclidean”.
When I try to bring physics/math into a public convo (or even just a convo with non-STEM) folks I try very hard to avoid terms that I'll have to unpack
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I think about the mentors I've had who made math/physics seem more approachable, and the papers that don't, and I try to emulate the former more.
It works for being kind on myself when I'm feeling imposter syndrome too