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NOT NORMAL
A random collection of back-of-the-envelope calculations, short stories, half-baked theories, bad poems, and more.
Many of these relate to the idea of normalcy, what it entails, and what it does not.
We are fortunate to live in a time where right and wrong, traditions, and norms are being renegotiated.
Yet, only through exploring what is normal can we experience the depths of the clash.
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Dialectical Contributions: Triangles All the Way Up
Hegel argues that the history of change is one of opposing ideas and their convergence into new levels of understanding. These, Hegelian...
Mar 7, 2025
Online Neurodivergence and the Liberal University
It truly annoys me when people say universities are liberal or that there are too many neurodiverse people. Here is a small rant on this.
Oct 9, 2024
I Procrastinate Myself into Mental Slavery
Some thoughts that came up after listening to a new song.
Oct 9, 2024
Reviewer Compersion
Compersion means experiencing joy in the joy of others. I feel it today as I read the (hopefully) 1st paper to be accepted that I reviewed.
May 7, 2024
Doctors Without eMails: A German Paradox
Doctors are objectively smart. But in Germany their offices often have fax numbers and no eMails. This paradox is a very strange one to me.
Nov 23, 2023
On Serendipity and Joy
Joy happens at random intervals. But one can design life to maximize the number of joy events per unit of time, i.e. its cross-section.
Oct 31, 2023
Admission Officers the Gatekeepers of Science
Admission officers have an outsized power over the future of science, yet their selection procedures lack objectivity.
Aug 28, 2023
Grand Opportunities Not Challenges
What if we think about what is possible and not what the problems are? In an era of boiling water superconductors how will our lives change?
Aug 2, 2023
On Dostoevsky, Ariely, and Gino
Reductionism is central to science, fake data directly threatens this foundation as it pollutes our minds with spurious information
Jul 14, 2023
Non-Newtonian Routine Dynamics
Routines encompass how organizations change. Somehow, our ontologies fail to acknowledge how diverse their shear change can be.
Jun 2, 2023
The Case for the Journal of Organization Science Experiments
Where I make a call to create the Journal of Organization Science Experiments. Godspeed to JOSE
Apr 1, 2023
chatGPT is a potato
I hate details and facts. I love quirkiness and curiosity. As such the internet has been my playground. A playground now enhanced by chatGPT
Mar 28, 2023
Normal Hearts and Normal Eyes: On Why I Chose a Life in Science
Science is a calling as much as a tool for winning bread. Many routes lead to it. Here I present two signals that guide my pilgrimage.
Dec 20, 2022
The Impostor Heuristic and the Fantastic 2022
Ever since I got fired from my PhD in physics, I have felt like an impostor. This feeling has many senseless faces. Here I present a few.
Dec 19, 2022
On Alter Egos and Algorithms at Work
An ode to the beauty that lies within ethnographies from the naive eyes of someone whose ADHD will never let him do one.
Dec 9, 2022
Why don't we believe what others tell us?
Confidence is not my strong suit. Here I discuss a case in which I felt mesmerized by the confidence of others on their own worldviews.
Aug 22, 2022
Wait until after you are a full professor. NO!
On good and weak advice. Such as: "Please fight for justice and climate change, but only after you are a full professor"
Aug 15, 2022
Doctoral Adolescence
A remembrance of times past, on how being a doctoral student has the same anxieties, hopes and want of transgression as being a young human
Jun 21, 2022
Educating Royalty
Today I learned that next year the future monarch of the kingdom where I work will be among my students. Here I try to put this into my head
May 30, 2022
On r/Place and Sagittarius A*
Shitty week. But what's better than some basic science to bring perspective into one's existential angst. This year has been so great so far
May 17, 2022
Perfectionism as a Philosophical Razor
I find perfectionism to be a red flag. Nothing has ever been perfect. I know this is a cynical view. But one based on my lived experience.
Apr 24, 2022
Manicured Ignorance
We choose what we ignore more than what we learn. Yet, we use our knowledge to define who we are. This is ludicrous and so absurdly normal
Apr 7, 2022
My Historiography of 'Art'
Art is subjective. What is art for me might not be for you. Here I write about how I distinguish art from crafts.
Mar 20, 2022
The Hotstove Effect in the COVID Forest
How do we reassess risk after being hurt once? This pandemic might give us a chance to learn in the COVID forest.
Feb 3, 2022
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