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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