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Self-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Disadvantages of a PhD Program
You don't have a line manager, basically. You kind of have to fight to get attention from them. They also tend not to be like very good managers in general and give you like very clear feedback about what's good and bad which tends to disorient people. And often you're working on a very large chunk of work that you're not really going to get to release or get any positive or negative feedback on from the public for potentially years. So I think there's many aspects of the ways that the way that PhD programs are organized,. Which means that they're a nightmare for mental health and they're a Nightmare for motivation.
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