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Sheila Heti: The Soul of Art S1 E2

Meditations with Zohar

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What's Wrong With the Crackpot A?

There's a comfort in being able to show your work, and there's a sense of accountability in a shared language that comes from footnotes. We know there is such a thing as brilliance, but it can be so easily corrupted, too. And i think there's a kind of safety, albeit a levelling down, when we reward people simply for publishing rather than measuring the existential impact of a paper on readers. I've somay things i want to say, but what's wrong with the crack pot?  I guess your answer.

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