pivoting Archives - Grace Conyers
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2014
2014
How to pivot in academia
“G”, a regular client of mine, expressed last month his concern that moving to an alt-path would through away several years of his life. This is no small matter, mind you, when you spend several thousand on your academic career from undergrad years on. However, when you change to an alt-path, you are not throwing away […]
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I'm never sure whether I should read this as a philosophy or history book. This time as I listened to the audio, it was with the eye of history. I found it pretty interesting from this aspect, and even at times laughable with the vernacu...
I don't know why I insist on torturing myself by exploring other genres of books that are just not for me. It's easier when they are audiobooks droning on in the background, not something I have to physically waste time on.
And this bo...
Always a classic, but so much easier to get through in text rather than audio form for me.
If you're new to space, I'd highly recommend this to you as it's a fun book with a playful tone and lots of knowledge. There's some sarcasm, but the it's playful.
If you're an old hand at astrophysics, I'd recommend skipping right on b...
I got my annual read of some sort of literotica over with early this year courtesy of Strep Throat keeping me inside and stir-crazy. This was... just about like all the others out there of this genre to me: Hilarious in parts, predictabl...
