Dressing as Chris Hansen for Halloween and showing up to people’s houses while they’re giving out candy to children and asking them “you see how this looks, right?”
the biggest bet i'm making in my life is that i'm not going to be automated away, and that pursuing my goal of becoming a professor is still worthwhile. it feels like the world is screaming that this is a terrible idea, but i would rather bet everything that everyone is wrong and try anyways. i think that's what following your dream really means in our time.
Mistakenly gave some dude wrong directions then ran after him to correct myself when I figured it out. Only for him to say “don’t know if I can trust you now”
If I were a better mathematician, I'd be mourning less. But I'm not a better mathematician. I'm precisely on the margin where I have no place anymore in the world that comes. As the margin narrows (truly marvelously), I no longer fit.