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Loss Landscape of Academia

An energy landscape depicting various academic activities. The "Important work" is at the global minimum, but there are many other local minima, including "Fancy positions", "'High-impact' journals", "Prestige", "Funding", and "Awards".

It’s good to check every once in a while that you aren’t stuck in a local minimum.

Published on January 17th, 2022 by Jeremy

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