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Self-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Pairing Up PhD Students

It does seem like a lot of PhD students are really unhappy. It's much harder to motivate yourself to do something that is just to like signal that you're good enough to get a PhD than to do what you intrinsically care about. I think the if I could change one thing about these programs, it would be pairing up PhD students or hiring more people to be actors line managers to these students because academics just don't have time to do it.

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