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Why I Am So Super Pessimistic About Everything
I’ve heard that human beings have an optimistic bias. When we imagine the future, we tend to imagine somewhat-unlikely scenarios that make us feel good and ignore more-likely scenarios that make us...
View ArticleWhy you should never, ever get an MFA
After semi-randomly going on a midnight rampage and reading a whole bunch of articles about why graduate school (in the Humanities) is a terrible idea, I decided to codify some of my...
View ArticleWhy I am not a pessimist and people should stop saying that I am. Because I’m...
Now, when I write stuff like yesterday’s post, people always say, “Oh, Rahul, you’re so pessimistic. You can’t succeed if you don’t try!” But I don’t think I am pessimistic at all. It’s just a fact....
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