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For academics, blogging can either be a self-absorbed distraction or a way to cultivate interest and fluency in writing about everyday life.
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- Kieran Healy Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets
As a thing for academics to do, writing a blog can be an endless black hole of self-absorbed wittering-or, it can cultivate a capacity to stay interested in things and to write about them fluently in the course of everyday life.
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