After 9+ years of existence, my blog just passed 1 million views.
I've let it fall by the wayside in recent years, but as a long-term project I've worked as hard on this as anything else.
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I expected that by this stage I would read through my old blog posts with a feeling of embarrassment, like when you look at pictures of yourself being young and dumb in high school. But I'm strangely kind of proud of it. There's a lot of good work there.
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The most popular post has always been this one, about what we can learn about our own mortality by looking at death rate statistics:
gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/you
I straight-up stole this idea from an obscure short paper by my PhD advisor:
arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0411
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The most valuable post I wrote might be this one, about how the most important aspect of academic kindness is the willingness to tolerate ignorance
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Hmm but what do you do with people who combine egregious ignorance with stridently arrogant opinions? That’s demonstrating a different sort of scorn rooted in individualist hubris rather than disciplinary priestliness.
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The problems, in my school of thought, are the arrogance, and the unwillingness to admit ignorance. The ignorance itself is not to be condemned.
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