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Random thought: there seems to be "hidden curriculum" stuff in many lines of work. Academia, of course, but also: how to schmooze your way into a tech internship/offer, how to
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Train headed towards 5 people, you can redirect it to one person by pulling a switch. Do you pull it?The bureaucrat: I am not getting anywhere close to that switch.
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OK so: what is a gamma squeeze?Suppose gamestop GME is trading at $20. You buy a bunch of call options with strike $30 from your market maker (MM)You have a
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Some more thoughts on "do research you enjoy" vs "follow this advice to write 3 AERs":I had a strong negative reaction to advice to simply "do research you enjoy" in
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Some good things about industry:- Teamwork, resources, goal-setting system in place for you to do impactful stuff- Lowered risk- Smart people- Often much nicer people- Much saner hours- Often much
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While I don't completely agree with the sentiment, I think the median person - even perhaps the median econ grad student - would be more impactful, richer, and happier in
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So I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, it is very important to me to work on things that are interesting to me (anyone who knows me
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I often say to grad students: a reasonable thing to aim for in grad school is ~2-3 essentially complete and posted papers, alongside your JMP. This often looks like your
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In my experience, when things blow up in private companies, upper management gets pretty directly involved in decision making. Product teams get in a room with the C-level pretty regularly,
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Here is a story I heard from a friend who's a PhD in aerospace engineering:He + team built a simple plane, calculating all the dimensions of wings, etc using all
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Largely agree with Ben's points here, some other thoughts...In physics, mathematical models are either basically correct or not. Newton's laws either hold in all cases or are a wrong (or
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