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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • Relativ klassische Polemik gegen die Definition von Armut als X% des Medians. Gerne erweitert um „Arbeitslose haben heutzutage ein Smartphone und können Vanille und Zimt im Supermarkt kaufen. Ludwig der 14. hat nicht so gut gelebt!“ Sprich, die wahre richtige Definition der Armut sollte sein „besitzt die Kleider, die er trägt und sonst nichts und ist permanent an der Grenze zum Kaloriendefizit“.


  • You’re assuming good faith and willingness to learn/change in the part of the students. I was a TA at a private US uni for the not so smart kids of rich parents. Our approach (imposed by admin) was all carrots all the time. 20% seems fair, even low, for the share of students who were there to get a degree with the least amount of effort necessary and then get a job thanks to the uni’s name and their connections.









  • 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.