Everytime I tweet non-trivial thoughts, I get a flood of links/pointers to work by others that people think I ought to be familiar with/connect to. I appreciate it, but without specific hooks I’ll likely ignore it. If I followed all such leads I’d get no thinking of my own done.
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Also, be aware that my thinking style involves a LOT of “scholarly civil disobedience” ie refusing to know about things. Please don’t be offended if I seem reluctant to go down paths you’re eager to send me down. It’s just process discipline.https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1008714338574585856?s=21 …
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This may not be your style or best style for all topics, but I prefer reinventing wheels to digging up refs or getting lost in other minds mazes. It’s a big reason I left academic research. It’s how I uncover whatever nuggets of interestingness I do, and how I have unpaid fun.
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Thank you for reading my social media API documentation. Yes it’s a small-minded, petty way of conducting one’s intellectual life, obsessively protecting elan vital, fun, and shitposting rights over being a good, collegial citizen of scholarly communities. Sorrynotsorry
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