This Is My True Name

Years ago, I was in Vegas watching a Smash Ultimate match at EVO, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world.

Burnout.

Epistemic status: a few people without any particular expertise in epidemiology spent an afternoon in a coffee shop discussing and reading about H5N1, with a focus on how an individual should orient towards this (as opposed to say, the government).

I'm a research lead at Timaeus and attended a workshop that Raemon ran from Oct 4-6 (it was shortened from 4 days to 2.5 days to fit into a weekend).

I’ve been to two EAGx events and one EAG, and the vast majority of my one on ones with junior people end up covering some subset of these questions.

By gut or gut feeling I mean our non-verbal physical and emotional responses to a decision that are pointed to by words like intuition or instinct and phrases like follow your heart.

[This is a reference post aimed at mathematicians (PhDs, postdocs, professors) who might be interested in options outside of academia.

I visited Oxford last week for a conference-workshop-retreat-thing (working title), which means I'm super jet lagged this week and have been temporarily consigned to the life of a morning person.

Regrettably no photos of laser tag in a castle - have a picture of a lecture on a lake instead It's been an eventful year!

Originally written for an editorial series for the Canadian Science Policy Centre.

Not from my bank account, just from opportunity cost.

I quit my job a month ago, which will probably end up among the best turning points of my career.