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Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice

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5 pages?!??! In my discipline, we spend five pages just kissing reviewer 2’s behind and begging people to take an interest. Then we spend 20 pages citing everyone and their adviser and their adviser’s second cousin on the off chance that they’re married to reviewer 2. Then you get a copy-paste of the documentation of one of the five datasets that everyone uses.

Dig into it. It replaces booze in late game.

How big is your cat?! o_O

I suggest googling reproducibility/replication crisis or Francesca Gino or have a look at RetractionWatch. I wish your portrait of scientists were true but alas.

This may steer too much towards the sobering/pessimistic than what you asked for but I found it quite clarifying (tldr: it’s hard, chances for impact are low, your own ego will get in the way, do your best and pray): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-being-useful/

The Wall was to keep its own people from emigrating. The country was losing so many people to emigration during the fifties, especially young people, especially educated people, that it decided to basically imprison the rest (gee I wonder why Reisefreiheit was one of the big demands of the 1989 protests). The Stasi kept tabs on people in order to suppress any sort of civil society independent of or critical of the party. If you wondered aloud whether the elections were fair or if economic policy was in the best interest of all and your teacher/college roommate/neighbor informed on you, you could be barred from high school/college/a job or end up in prison (with amenities such as solitary, no light, ankle deep cold water). Oh and your partner too and your children. Etc. Also, June 1953.

Erfurt 11° 2′ Ost. München 11° 34′ Ost. Willkommen zurück, ihr Noppen.

Auf den Zauberstab klicken, DOI eingeben, Magieeee. Man kann es mit Word, Latex, etc. kombinieren und damit sehr einfach zitieren. Aber die richtige Magie kommt ganz am Ende, wenn Zotero die Bibliografie von alleine erstellt und formatiert. Sollte deine Unibibo ein Zotero Tutorial anbieten, kann ich das nur empfehlen.

Ok those are really big things. For those really big intimidating things, I found Barbara Oakley’s book/lectures on procrastination quite helpful. I think they are on YT. They helped me get unstuck during my PhD. For the smaller recurring things, let me know if you find a good strategy :) When it’s non-life-changing fun stuff (e.g. music/drawing/crafts), I try to focus on the joy that I get out of even just dicking around instead of how I suck compared to Picasso.

Does it have to do with the difference between one-off tasks and recurring tasks? I’ve asked myself similar questions to yours and sometimes I wonder if tedium is harder to accept when you know that, even if you finish this task today, you’ll have to do it again tomorrow, next week, etc. So why not skip it this once? (We all know it’s never just once)