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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • You should write on an unsettled question that interests you enough to keep your interest for a long time. If you don’t have a clue what this is, then I recommend you do some literature review. Research is not done in a vacuum. Once you know what conversations people are having, then you can see where your perspective can make a valuable contribution.





  • It can be news on topics you’re interested in, blogs on topics you’re interested in, comics, subreddits, etc. To give an idea, I follow:

    • Ars Technica for tech news
    • NASA for space news
    • Local blogs on food/events/news/ going on in my city
    • RockPaperShotgun for gaming news
    • “A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” for blog posts from a history professor
    • Richard Y Chappell for blog posts from a philosophy professor
    • A few YouTube channels
    • A few niche Reddit feeds
    • XKCD for comics (most webcomic artists have an RSS feed)

    Depending on your RSS app, you can also follow podcasts. I use InoReader for the above but I prefer a dedicated podcast app. There’s good/entertaining RSS feeds on the internet if you’re willing to curate it! It’s nice to get away from internet comments.













  • There would be no religious wars, honor killings, more freedom, no religious leaders abusing their powers, no waste of labor and money on religious things, etc. It may seem that we would be more educated and have better understanding.

    Removing the word religion from this excerpt wouldn’t remove any of these problems. We would still squabble over territory, resources, and ideological differences. To give a non-religious analogy: if a time traveler went back and killed Hitler, Germany would still retain all the problems from WW1 and the Weimar Republic that were ripe for a dictatorship.