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Academia

I came close enough to academia to feel its gravity and to see how hard it pulls on people who arrive with curiosity instead of armour; cf. “spaghettification”. It is not that nothing good happens there. Some of it does, almost by accident. Clever people, often exhausted and underprotected, do manage to push insight through […]

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education

Institutional Event Horizon

By the time you understand how academia actually works, you are already trapped inside it. That is the trick. Entry is sold as freedom of thought, critique, and discovery. What you encounter instead is a dense lattice of reputation management, contractual silence, risk avoidance, and procedural obedience. Say the wrong thing, name the wrong problem, […]