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The weapons of influence

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Authority can be a useful tool to try out if you need to sometimes break through some things where, you know, you're not getting any progress. Where it becomes tricky is if you work within a system that's hierarchically structured but don't particularly care about hierarchy too much. I'm more likely to respond to people who are authoritative for various reasons than people who actually are given a position. It's one of the parts of academia that I just have a hard time with.

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