I'm slowly realizing how sensitive I am to trivial inconveniences. A bad keyboard or slow computer makes me write much less. I spent way less time in the nearby park when I had to walk through an unpleasant industrial area to get there.
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I feel this really strongly with computational research: my experimental process is much more creative when experiments are fast than when they're slow. It's probably a good thing that I don't do wet lab work. 😅
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And... apparently my attempt to ignore bad Afghanistan takes in August was enough to prompt an (unintended) four-month Twitter break.
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as much as I love Twitter, that sounds like a perfectly good reason to quit the platform permanently!
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That's a good point, but I'm worried that might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Twitter seems to be uniquely useful for things I care about (e.g, I met my research collaborator on Twitter), so it feels like it's worth another try?
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