We had an election here in the UK yesterday (yes this was written in December). Because of this, I have been reflecting on why we, as a society, tend to vote against our best interests. I used to believe that it was because people were ignorant and therefore easily tricked into voting against their interests.Continue reading “Democracy and bending the rules – 96”
This one is not going to be related to my escapades as a PhD student as I have something else I would like to write about. It is something that I have been thinking about for a few years, but I have not had my thoughts gathered sufficiently as to explain them to you untilContinue reading “On not being a sell-out – 93”
This is the 91st entry into my weblog, since starting this in October 17 I have only missed a few weeks. Most of those that I have lost have been in the last few months. I’ll be the first to admit that my levels of motivation for writing and my PhD, in general, are atContinue reading “Moving house – 91”
I have not been very active on here for the last few months. The reason for this is that I have had next to no motivation to write. I have spent a lot of time on a website called Kaggle, which is a website for competing in data science tasks. So, it is not asContinue reading “The institutionalisation of I – 90”
I have come to the end of my surge in productivity and motivation. I find that I have cycles of motivation, where I am incredibly productive for around two months, and slowly this degrades into my least productive – which is where I am now. This is the concept of ‘regression toward the mean’. ForContinue reading “regression toward the mean – 89”
The man who got into writing when media had advanced through two different formats, video and audio, is a fool? Getting into blogging in 2019 is, unbeknown to many people, a bit like getting into steam-powered vehicles – times have changed. Do you ever feel like switching to video or audio? I imagine most ofContinue reading “Missing the wave – 88”
It is relatively early in the morning for me to be writing. Still, I have a lot of other writing-related things to do today, so I am trying to get a head start on it. As I am not at my prime this early in the morning, and the mind is still a little foggy,Continue reading “A writer’s warm-up – 87”
I have noticed that a lot of people have been asking for advice on how to grow their blog over the last few weeks. I am not sure why that all of a sudden people seem to be asking me this. Maybe I have passed a certain threshold of followers that has given me bloggingContinue reading “Growing pains – my views on growing an audience”
Well, for those of you that have been following my recent posts, I have relatively exciting news for you: I remembered to order coffee this week. I certainly needed the exogenous boost this week as it has been physically exhausting. It was a combination of long days working in the lab and extra training runs.Continue reading “Do you know what you want to do with your life? – 72”
I have done it again; these words are coming from the mind of an un-caffeinated coffee addict. Once again I have failed to inform my partner, who handles our online shopping delivery, that we are low. I feel quite absent-minded and uber susceptible to distraction, but I will get through this post even if IContinue reading “Learning the hard way – 71”
Learning to write 