HeyJaredThe Motivated Sceptic
Politics, philosophy and psychology from a slightly sceptical and cynical perspective.
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How to Give an Average Talk (opens the original)
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“How to” guides are a perennial staple of academic blogs. We want to give others the benefit of our experience in giving great talks, killer job talks, writing great papers, and so on. Whenever I read these guides, I have to admit that the advice is pretty good, and I suspect that most people who write them do, in fact, give great talks.But what if you know you are ne
2026 Reading (Part 1) (opens the original)
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A few years ago I was fed up with the fact I was wasting time on social media that I could be spending reading. So I decided to set the arbitrary target of reading 50 books a year. Last year I managed 60; the year before it was 53. This year I abandoned the number target but planned to read long books, no particular number, as many as possible. As it turns out, vague and unspecific ambitions don’t work as well as arbitrary targets. But I did manage a few, along with a mix of shorter novels, norm
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